Lincoln

This article is about the location from the HBO series. For its appearance in the video game series, see Lincoln.

Lincoln
General information
Type	Town
Location	Massachusetts, United States
Points of interest	Bill's house
Notable inhabitants	Bill Frank
Appears in	HBO's The Last of Us

Lincoln is a major location in HBO's The Last of Us. It is a town in northeast Massachusetts, roughly 10 miles west of Boston.

History

Background

Lincoln is a fairly typical small town settled in northeast Massachusetts and was established during the year 1764. By 2003, it was a thriving town housing a sizeable population. Notable landmarks included a church, a boutique, a liquor store, an open spaced garden with evergreen trees lining the streets, a large supermarket, a gas station, and a power plant. Bill and his mother lived in a sizeable house in the town, with ownership passing to Bill after his mother died.

Events of HBO's The Last of Us

When the Cordyceps brain infection outbreak occurred on September 26, 2003, FEDRA and the United States military came to the town to evacuate the residents living there to the quarantine zone in Boston. FEDRA put up mandatory evacuation notices around the town to inform residents that had to leave the zone and the military would force them to do so. By September 30, the military began rounding people up, loading them onto military trucks. After ensuring the houses were empty, they marked them all with a large red "X" on their front doors to certify the house was clear. Bill refused to go with them, hiding in his basement. Bill's mistrust proved to be his salvation: the soldiers took the other residents away but, instead of to Boston as promised, shot them dead in the countryside a few miles from the town.

With the town now deserted, Bill left his house and took to repossessing all the abandoned equipment—people's cars, boats, food from the market, and wine from the liquor store—as his own. He siphoned gas from the gas station to use for himself. The military also cut off the electricity supply to the town, leading Bill to make his own generator to power the town. Bill also created a large electrified fence all around the town's perimeter, aiming to use it to keep hostile survivors and infected from getting inside.

Between 2003 and 2010, the town fell into disrepair. The buildings rotted, the flowers died in the garden and dust filled the houses. The only things Bill maintained were the defences. However, when Frank joined the town, he began to improve the area. He convinced Bill to let him paint some of the houses on their main street, do up the boutique and even restore the garden in the city. When Joel and Tess began visiting, they brought more supplies - notably industrial wire and machine parts - allowing Bill to reinforce the fence, which had rusted. By 2013, the town was in a stable condition, with the fence now having more traps around it, notably motion-detecting flamethrowers to help Bill and Frank fend off raiders.

By 2023, the town was still well kept through Bill and Frank's efforts. Although, after the pair took their own lives on August 29, Joel lamented the town would now waste away without them alive to maintain it. Indeed, the plants in the town were already starting to decay again by the time he and Ellie arrived.

Known inhabitants

• Bill
• Frank

Gallery

Behind the scenes

• The town's mandatory evacuation notice—seen in the town square when FEDRA are trucking away civilians—is almost an exact copy from the game, albeit with an altered date.
• Unlike the video game in which Lincoln had been degraded in a good part of its infrastructure, in addition to being infested with a large population of infected, in the show, the city remained preserved and practically free of infected.