INDIANAPOLIS — The first of four new state historical markers marking events in Abraham Lincoln’s life in Indiana has been dedicated at the Statehouse in downtown Indianapolis.

The marker unveiled today on the building’s south lawn commemorates Lincoln’s funeral train passing through the city on its way to Springfield, Ill., in 1865.

The marker says an estimated 50,000 people filed past Lincoln’s open casket at the old Statehouse.

The Indiana Historical Bureau and the Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission are erecting the markers to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the 16th president’s birth.

Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809. He lived in southern Indiana’s Spencer County from ages 7 to 21, when he moved to Illinois.