John Adams laid out land in Pleasant Grove Township in 1852 as the town of Farmington, offering lots for sale and naming it after Mrs. Adams’ Tennessee birthplace, but because another Farmington already existed in Fulton County, the official name became Campbell after Zeno Campbell moved the nearby post office into town; the community was known by both names. During the 1850s, mail arrived from Charleston three times a week, and in the 1870s the town reached about 100 residents, with four stores, a carriage shop, blacksmith shop, steam flour mill, school, and two churches, before declining when the railroad chose Jamesville to the south and residents moved away. Among the houses built there in the 1850s was the home of Reuben Moore, a prosperous landowner involved in farming and land speculation who had emigrated with his first wife Mary to Coles County in 1839 and in 1840 traded 80 acres to Thomas Lincoln, land now known as Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site. After Mary died in 1855, Reuben married Matilda Johnson Hall, Abraham Lincoln’s stepsister, in 1856; their blended family included six children, and after Reuben died in July 1859, having nearly disowned Matilda, she successfully sued for her dower rights and gained title to the house and one third of his estate, while Miles Moore inherited most of the remainder. Reuben Moore owned four town lots, numbered 14 through 17, and his frame house, built with rough-sawn 2 x 4 framing, lathe and plaster interior, clapboard siding, four rooms, and a loft, reflected a more urban style than the log homes with fireplaces common in the countryside. On January 31, 1861, president-elect Abraham Lincoln came to the Moore home and to Coles County for the last time before his inauguration, while Sarah Lincoln stayed there with her daughter Matilda during repairs to the cabin at Goosenest Prairie; after visiting his father’s grave at Shiloh Cemetery, he returned to find a large dinner prepared by local women, then bid farewell to his stepmother, who embraced him and told him, “My dear boy, I always thought there was something great in you,” before he went back to Charleston that night to catch the train to Springfield the next day. The State of Illinois acquired the Moore home in 1929, the Civilian Conservation Corps renovated it in the 1930s, and beginning in 1996 the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency restored it to its original appearance.