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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, Hodgenville, KY

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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Climb 56 steps to a neoclassical memorial holding a symbolic log cabin on the farm where Abraham Lincoln was born.

2995 Lincoln Farm Road · Hodgenville, KY

About Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

This park preserves Sinking Spring Farm, where Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. You climb 56 steps, one for each year of his life, to a neoclassical Memorial Building designed by John Russell Pope and dedicated in 1911. Inside sits a symbolic log cabin, and the Sinking Spring itself is a short walk away. A separate unit at Knob Creek marks the farm where Lincoln lived from age 2 to 7.

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