President Abraham Lincoln

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This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek

President Abraham Lincoln was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky. As a boy, he lived on a farm on Knob Creek, located near the Louisville-Nashville Turnpike. Courtesy the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek

By Talbott
The summer before Abraham Lincoln was elected president, he wrote a response to Samuel Haycraft, who had asked Lincoln to return to Kentucky to visit his boyhood home. Although few Kentuckians…