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Knob Creek at Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home, LaRue County, KY. 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
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.
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.
Despite claims made later, the cabin Lincoln was born in was likely destroyed by the time of his assassination. The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park labels the replica cabin, which was built thirty years after his death, the "Traditional Lincoln Birthplace Cabin". The significance of the two Hodgenville sites (birthplace and ...
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 ...
Kentucky, birthplace of both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, has such a complicated history around the Civil War it’s not wonder so few of us really understand it.
(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. Abraham was born at the farm two months after the move, on February 12, 1809.
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. [2] He was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln, an Englishman who migrated from Hingham, Norfolk, to its namesake, Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638.