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Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born there in a one-room log cabin. Today this site bears the address of 2995 Lincoln Farm Road, Hodgenville, Kentucky. A cabin, symbolic of the one in which Lincoln was born, is preserved within a 1911 neoclassical memorial building at the site.
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.
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.
LaRue County is a county in the central region of the U.S. state of Kentucky, outside the Bluegrass Region and larger population centers. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,867. [1] Its county seat is Hodgenville, [2] which is best known as the birthplace of United States President Abraham Lincoln. The county was established on March ...
(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 move, on February 12, 1809. [30] [31] Due to a land title dispute, the family lived at the farm only two more years before being forced to move. Thomas continued legal action in ...
Lincoln's name and image appear in numerous other places, such as the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln's sculpture on Mount Rushmore, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in Hodgenville, Kentucky, [9] Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Lincoln City, Indiana, [10] Lincoln's New Salem, Illinois, [11] and Lincoln ...
Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Washington, D.C. National Mall. 1920 Daniel Chester French: Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Cincinnati, Ohio. Lytle Park. 1917 George Grey Barnard: Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Hodgenville, Kentucky. Hodgenville Public Square 1909 Adolph Alexander Weinman: Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Madison, Wisconsin. University of ...