The poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg spent the last 22 years of his life at Connemara, a 264-acre mountain farm outside Flat Rock in the Blue Ridge foothills, where he completed his Pulitzer Prize-winning Complete Poems and his wife Lilian raised a nationally renowned herd of dairy goats. The farmhouse, barns, and goat pens are preserved as the family left them, with descendants of the original Chikaming goat herd still on the grounds.