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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace

For more than a century, people from around the world have journeyed
to LaRue County to honor the humble beginnings of Abraham Lincoln.

LincoLn Beginnings Lincoln’s birthplace in 1906 “for entitled “Abraham Lincoln – The
Moving from nearby the purpose of honoring and Kentucky Years.” The park fea-
Elizabethtown to Hodgenville, perpetuating the memory of tures nature trails as well as near-
Lincoln’s parents Thomas and Abraham Lincoln.” The associ- by picnic facilities across the road.
Nancy Lincoln were among ation eventually raised $350,000 The park is open daily from 8
the early customers at Robert to build a memorial for the 16th a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Memorial Day
Hodgen’s Mill. Abraham Lincoln President, which stands today on weekend through Labor Day. It
was born on a snowy Sunday on the Sinking Spring Farm as a tes- closes at 4:30 p.m. during the fall
February 12, 1809 in the log cab- tament of respect for Lincoln. and winter and is closed Jan. 1,
in at his father’s Sinking Spring Thanksgiving Day and Dec. 25.
Farm where the family lived for nationaL HistoricaL Park No admission is charged
two years before establishing a Now managed by the National For more information about
home at Knob Creek to the north Park Service, the Abraham Abraham Lincoln Birthplace
near Athertonville. Lincoln Birthplace National National Historical Park and on-
Historical Park averages 200,000 going events, visit nps.gov/abli
PLace for a President visitors annually. Constructed or follow the park on Facebook,
Near the end of the 19th cen- between 1909 and 1911, the Instagram and Twitter.
tury, national attention focused country’s first memorial to
on Hodgenville as the place of Lincoln sits atop fifty-six steps Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln’s birth. The Lincoln representing the fifty-six years Birthplace National
Farm Association, composed of Lincoln’s life and enshrines a Historical Park
of such notable people as Mark symbolic birthplace cabin. The 2995 Lincoln Farm Rd.
Twain, Robert Collier, and visitor center contains exhibits, Hodgenville 270-358-3137
William Howard Taft, purchased activities and a documentary film nps.gov/abli

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