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Location map of Lincoln's birthplace (Sinking Spring Farm) lower left, and boyhood home (Knob Creek Farm) upper right, near Hodgenville, Kentucky. The two Park locations are almost 10 miles (16 km) apart on U.S. Route 31E. Lincoln lived at Sinking Spring until he was two years old, before moving with his family to another farm a few miles to ...
Abraham Lincoln was born in a small cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville on February 12, 1809. [8] About two years later, the family moved to another farm in the Hodgenville area. [9] Despite claims made later, the cabin Lincoln was born in was likely destroyed by the time of his assassination.
October 15, 1966 (3 miles south of Hodgenville: Hodgenville: 1809 birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, containing a portion of his parents' farm and a traditional log cabin now housed in a 1911 memorial designed by John Russell Pope.
In December 1808, Thomas, Nancy, and their daughter, Sarah, moved from Elizabethtown to the Sinking Spring farm, on Nolin Creek, near Hodgen's Mill, in Hardin County, Kentucky. (The farm is part of the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in present-day LaRue County, Kentucky.) Abraham was born at the farm two months after the ...
Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park, photographed on Feb. 14, 2024, overlooks the Beaufort River and the Beaufort Downtown Marina was opened in 1979 and is built upon a series of 570 pilings.
The Abraham Lincoln Statue is a historic statue in the Hodgenville Commercial Historic District's public square in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Adolph Alexander Weinman sculpted the statue, as he also did the Lincoln statue at the capitol rotunda at Frankfort, Kentucky. [2] [3] The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park is nearby.
Sep. 11—It's been 15 years since Sinking Spring officials first talked about realigning two crooked intersections on Penn Avenue and constructing a parallel boulevard to create a new, walkable ...
[15] [22] Although their cabin was a standard dirt floor, one room log cabin, their property was named Sinking Spring Farm for the "magnificent spring that bubbled from the bottom of a deep cave." [ 15 ] On February 12, 1809, the Lincolns' second child, a son named Abraham Lincoln , was born.