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The Lincoln home, the centerpiece of the Lincoln Home National Historic
Site, has been restored to its 1860s appearance, revealing Lincoln as husband,
father, politician, and President-elect. It stands in the midst of a four
block historic neighborhood which the National Park Service is restoring
so that the neighborhood, like the house, will appear much as Lincoln would
have remembered it.
We are pleased to have you visit the Lincoln Home website. Please use
it to learn more about Abraham Lincoln, to take a virtual tour of the
Lincoln Home, and to plan your visit to Lincoln Home National Historic
Site.
In the fall of 1808, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln settled on the 348 acre
Sinking Spring Farm. Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln
was born in a one-room log cabin near the Sinking Spring. Here the Lincolns
lived and farmed before moving to land a few miles away at Knob Creek.
The area was established by Congress on July 17, 1916. An early 19th century
Kentucky cabin, symbolic of the one in which Lincoln was born, is preserved
in a memorial building at the site of his birth.
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