The Site focuses on Lincoln’s life in Kentucky. The Birthplace Unit demonstrates his humble beginnings with a symbolic birth cabin enshrined within a neo-classic Memorial Building. The Boyhood Home Unit at Knob Creek Farm was home to Lincoln during his formative years. Events in Kentucky helped mold a young boy into the man who became the nation’s sixteenth President.
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Unit
The Birthplace Unit features 116 acres of Thomas Lincoln's Sinking Spring Farm. An early 19th century Kentucky cabin, symbolizes the one in which Abraham was born. The cabin is enshrined inside the Memorial Building at the site of his birth. The Unit also includes the Sinking Spring, site of the Boundary Oak tree and other reminders of the Nation's 16th President's beginnings.
Boyhood Home Unit at Knob Creek
“My earliest recollection is of the Knob Creek place.” So wrote Abraham Lincoln on June 4, 1860. The Lincoln family lived on 30 rented acres of the Knob Creek Farm from the time Abraham was two until he seven years old. As President, he said he could remember planting pumpkin seeds in the garden in every other hill and in every other row while others were planting corn. The following day a big rain in the hills flooded the creek and washed away their garden.
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
You're invited to participate in the 200th birthday commemoration of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial opening ceremony will be held at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 2008.
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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site 2995 Lincoln Farm Road Hodgenville, Kentucky 42748
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