Lincoln Birthplace Cabin, Hodgenville, Kentucky

ID: 123
This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek

Located in the Lincoln Birthplace Memorial near Hodgenville, this cabin is representative of the type of cabin that Lincoln's family would have lived in when he was born in 1809. 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…