Galesburg - Carl Sandburg State Historic Site

This site is the birthplace of Carl Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Lincoln biographer. The museum contains hundreds of artifacts and displays that relate to Sandburg. A perennial garden, located behind the home, has plantings that are appropriate to Sandburg's era and surround Remembrance Rock, where the ashes of Carl Sandburg and his wife, Lilian, are buried.