A new museum was founded to mark the Lincoln bicentennial.

The museum is in Gettysburg, in the house of the David Wills, the lawyer who invited Lincoln to the dedication Soldiers’ National Cemetery in 1863 and offered the president his and his wife’s bedroom.

But that room means more than a space in which Abe Lincoln spent a night. It was in that room where the legendary president put the final touches on the Gettysburg Address. The place is also significant because it served as a command center after the three-day Battle of Gettysburg.

To mark the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, the town’s dignitaries will gather in that second-floor room that overlooks Gettysburg's town square to open a new National Park Service museum in the David Wills House.

The museum practically praises the role plaid by the wealthy lawyer David Wills in coordinating the town’s recovery from the three-day Battle of Gettysburg and organized the Soldiers' National Cemetery. The museum also intends to showcase what happened after the Civil War battle here that July. The situation was critical with the number of wounded soldiers outnumbering the town’s 2,400 residents by 11 to 1.

The David Wills House, which has undergone $7.2 million in renovations, has been added to Gettysburg National Military Park, a museum mostly dedicated to the aftermath of the Civil War battle. The house was purchased four years ago by the national Park Service and the restoration money was provided by the government.