Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park is a sightseeing stop in Hodgenville, KY, part of the Louisville and the Bluegrass guide. Cost: free.

2995 Lincoln Farm Road · Hodgenville, KY

Why you should go…

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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