Lincoln Birthplace Sale Broadside, 1905

ID: 122
This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek

When President Abraham Lincoln's birthplace was put up for sale in 1905, it was advertised with this broadside. Lincoln was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky. 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…