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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
LocationHodgenville, Kentucky, USA
Coordinates
Area344.50 acres (1.39 km²)
EstablishedJuly 17, 1916
Total visitation190,809 (in 2005)
Governing bodyNational Park Service


Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site preserves two farm sites where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child.

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In the fall of 1808, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln settled on Sinking Spring Farm. Today this site bears the address of 2995 Lincoln Farm Road, Hodgenville, Kentucky. Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin. A cabin, symbolic of the one in which Lincoln was born, is preserved in a memorial building at the site. The Lincolns lived and farmed at Sinking Spring before moving to land a few miles away at Knob Creek, which is located a few miles to the northeast along U.S. Highway 31.

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Symbolic log cabin

Log cabin

The main attraction at the Sinking Spring site is a log cabin. New York businessman A.W. Dennett purchased the Lincoln farm in 1894 and had this cabin moved to a site near the Sinking Spring, but shortly thereafter it was again dismantled and re-erected for exhibition in many cities. A neo-classical Memorial Building was designed by John Russell Pope for the birthplace site. In 1909 the cornerstone was laid by President Theodore Roosevelt and the building was dedicated in 1911 by William Howard Taft. Almost a hundred years after Thomas Lincoln moved from Sinking Spring Farm, the log cabin (at that time accepted as his birthplace cabin) was placed inside the Memorial Building.

Although its early history is obscure, extensive research suggests that the cabin is probably not the birthplace cabin of Abraham Lincoln. The building is symbolic, featuring 16 windows, 16 rosettes on the ceiling, and 16 fence poles, representing Lincoln being the 16th president. There are also 56 steps up to the building, representing his age at the time of his death

Knob Creek

Knob Creek features a log cabin and an historic tavern. The log cabin is not original to the site, but may have belonged to neighbors of the Lincolns, and was moved to the approximate location of the Lincolns' home. Abraham Lincoln's earliest memory was his near drowning in Knob Creek, and being saved by the neighbor's son.

Administrative history

Established as Abraham Lincoln National Park July 17, 1916; transferred from the War Department August 10, 1933; redesignated Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park August 11, 1939; renamed and redesignated September 8, 1959. As with all historic sites administered by the National Park Service, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. Boundary expanded to include Knob Creek on November 6, 1998.

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Protected Areas of Kentucky
National Parks,
Recreation Areas and Historic Sites		Mammoth Cave National Park • Cumberland Gap National Historical Park • Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area • Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
State Nature PreservesAxe Lake Swamp State Nature Preserve• Bad Branch Falls State Nature Preserve • Brigadoon State Nature Preserve • Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns State Nature Preserves• Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve • Blackacre State Nature Preserve • Blue Licks State Nature Preserve • Jesse Stuart State Nature Preserve • Natural Bridge State Nature Preserve
State Resort ParksBarren River Lake • Buckhorn Lake • Carter Caves • Cumberland Falls • General Butler • Grayson Lake • Green River Lake • Greenbo Lake • Jenny Wiley • Kenlake • Kentucky Dam Village • Lake Barkley • Lake Cumberland • Natural Bridge • Pennyrile Forest • Pine Mountain • Rough River Dam
State Historic SitesBoone Station • Constitution Square • Dr. Thomas Walker • Isaac Shelby Cemetery • Jefferson Davis • Old Mulkey Meetinghouse • Perryville Battlefield • Waveland • White Hall • William Whitley House
State Recreation ParksBen Hawes • Blue Licks Battlefield • Big Bone Lick • Carr Creek • Columbus-Belmont • Dale Hollow Lake • E.P. "Tom" Sawyer • Fort Boonesborough • General Burnside • John James Audubon • Kincaid Lake • Kingdom Come • Lake Malone • Levi Jackson Wilderness Road • Lincoln Homestead • Mineral Mound • My Old Kentucky Home • Nolin Lake • Old Fort Harrod • Paintsville Lake • Taylorsville Lake • Yatesville Lake
State ForestsDewey Lake • Kentenia • Kentucky Ridge • Knobs • Pennyrile • Olympia • Tygarts State Forest
OtherBreaks Interstate Park • Daniel Boone National Forest • Kentucky Horse Park
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