Abraham Lincoln's watch
This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek
Abraham Lincoln's pocketwatch is on display at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in Frankfort. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek
Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek
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…