Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, was the first president born west of the Appalachian Mountains.  His birth in a log cabin at Sinking Springs Farm took place on February 12, 1809, when that part of Kentucky ...

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Born in a single room log cabin on his father's Sinking Spring Farm on Sunday, February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln's early years on the Kentucky frontier helped to shape his character and prepare the boy who would grow up to ...

Abraham Lincoln - As - A - Boy Statue

The sculpture of Abraham Lincoln – as – A – Boy was created by the Daub Firmin Hendrickson Sculpture Group, and dedicated May 31, 2008. The Group designed the granite bearing the Gettysburg Address and excerpts from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural ...

Abraham Lincoln's memory of Knob Creek Farm

My earliest recollection. . .is of the Knob Creek place

Abraham Lincoln, 1860

Abraham Lincoln’s family moved here from his birthplace at Sinking Spring Farm in 1811, when the future president was just two years old. Lincoln’s earliest memories were of life ...

Two Miles South of this town Abraham Lincoln was born ...

Two miles south of this town Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809.

Erected with appropriations made by the Legislature of Kentucky and the Congress of the United States of America

Anno Domini MCMIX (1909)

Marker is at the intersection of Lincoln ...

Abraham Lincoln Lewis Mausoleum

Pioneer Abraham Lincoln Lewis (1865-1947) and others founded Florida’s oldest African-American insurance company, Afro-American Life in 1901, which spread throughout the South as far as Texas. In 1926, A.L. Lewis opened Lincoln Golf and Country Club where the famous visited, ...

Captain Abraham Lincoln

Rejecting a treaty, Black Hawk, a leader of the Sauk and Fox, led his hungry people back into Illinois from Iowa in early 1832, intending to plant corn. Black Hawk also hoped to form an alliance with the Winnebago and ...

Abraham Lincoln's Biography

Greencastle Courthouse Square

6 West Washington Street

William Herndon

Jesse Weik

Abraham Lincoln

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Greencastle

During the long, hot summer of 1887, William H. Herndon of Springfield, Illinois, the former law partner of Abraham Lincoln, came to Greencastle to visit his ...

The Grave of Abraham Lincoln

This structure marks the graves of Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary, and three of their four children. Members of the Lincoln family chose the site in May 1865. Planned and built in the years following the president's shocking death, the ...

What Did Abraham Lincoln Eat?

Today many people refer to gardening as a hobby, but in the mid-19th Century many families depended on a kitchen garden to enrich their diets with seasonal foods such as fruits, vegetables and herbs. This recreated 19th Century kitchen garden ...