Gollaher Cabin
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The cabin that is presently on the site of the Lincoln boyhood farm at Knob Creek, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, is actually the cabin of Lincoln's childhood friend Austin Gollaher. It is belived that the Lincoln family cabin would have been similar. Photograph courtesy of Tim Talbott.
This file appears in: Lincoln's Playmate
Lincoln's Playmate
Historical Marker #827 in Larue County recognizes Austin Gollaher, childhood friend of Abraham Lincoln. Gollaher is best known as the man who claimed to have saved Lincoln's life.
Gollaher was born in 1805, died in 1898, and is buried in…