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KY -- Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHP -- Boyhood Home @ Knob Creek:

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1. LINCBO_081006_03.JPG: The Lincolns at Knob Creek (Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail sign) Challenges to land titles were common in Kentucky's early years, and the Lincoln family experienced these problems firsthand. In 1811, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln moved here, to Knob Creek, with their two children, Sarah and Abraham. They leased thirty acres of bottomland along the Old Cumberland Trail, and it was here that their child, Thomas, was born and died in infancy. Abraham and his sister attended a local school, located two miles northeast of here. Two teachers, Zachariah Riney and Caleb Hazle, gave young Abraham his first formal schooling. Lincoln's classroom education, however, would not last. The demands of the frontier required him to work the family farm, but he continued his education. He borrowed books and read them in front of the fireplace or under a shade tree. In 1815, the Lincolns and nine of their neighbors were involved in a land title dispute for the entire Knob Creek valley. The next autumn, Thomas Lincoln lost a court case to regain the Sinking Spring farm where the Lincoln Birthplace Memorial is now located. He then moved his family to present-day Spencer County, Indiana. The cabin before you was constructed using logs from the original Gollaher cabin. Austin Gollaher, a childhood playmate of Abraham Lincoln, is believed to have saved Lincoln from drowning by pulling him to safety from the nearby swollen creek. "The place on Knob Creek, mentioned by Mr. Read, I remember very well; but I was not born there. As my parents have told me, I was born on Nolin, very much nearer Hodgin's-Mill than the Knob Creek place is. My earliest recollection, however, is of the Knob Creek place." -- Letter from Abraham Lincoln to the Hon. Samuel Haycraft, June 4, 1860.
2. LINCBO_081006_41.JPG: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site commemorates the birth and early life of Abraham Lincoln and interprets the relationship of his background and pioneer environment to his service for his country, as President of the United States during the crucial years of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin at the Sinking Spring Farm on February 12, 1809. Here the Lincolns lived and farmed two and one-half years before a problem with the deed forced him to move to 30 acres of rented land at Knob Creek. It was at Knob Creek that Abraham had his earliest recollections including attending his first school near there and farming the narrow bottomland with his father. It was the Knob Creek experience, some of his most formative years, which helped mold the boy to become the Great Emancipator. The Lincolns lived at Knob Creek Farm until they moved to Indiana in 1816. The Lincoln family lived on 30 acres of the 228 acre Knob Creek Farm from the time Abraham was two and a half until he was almost eight years old. Here he learned to talk and soon grew big enough to run errands such as carrying water, and gathering wood for the fires. Abraham recalled in later years numerous memories of his childhood here; a stone house he had passed while taking corn to Hodgen's Mill; a certain big tree that had attracted his boyish fancy; the old homestead; the clear stream where he fished, and the surrounding hills where he picked berries were all impressed on his mind. Lincoln could also remember the baby brother who was born and died on the Knob Creek Farm. He remembered one occasion when he and his sister Sarah had planted the garden; Abraham said that he planted pumpkin seeds in every other hill and every other row while Sarah and others planted the corn. The following night a big rain i the hills sent water rushing into the creek; the creek flooded the fields and washed away their garden. Lincoln once wrote that while living on Knob Creek he and his sister, Sarah, were sent for short periods, to an A, B, C, school -- the first kept by Zachariah Riney, and the second by Caleb Hazel. These were subscription schools and lasted only a few months. Free schools did not come to Kentucky until the 1830s. Acquisition of Lincoln's Knob Creek Farm: Congress established Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in 1916 after the Lincoln Farm Association donated the land and building for the park. On November 6, 1998, Congress authorized the expansion of the park boundary to include the privately owned property known as Lincoln's Boyhood Home at Knob Creek ten miles from Lincoln's Birthplace. The legislation stipulates that acquisition be by donation only. A non-profit organization, Preservation of Lincoln's Kentucky Heritage, Inc., was established in 1999 to acquire the property from willing sellers with the intention of donation it to the National Park Service. The organization has secured an option with the assistance of the National Park Trust to purchase the 228-acre property for one million dollars by April 1, 2001. Once the Knob Creek Farm was donated to the National Park Service, the land would become Federal property and included as a part of Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site.
3. LINCBO_081006_45.JPG: Tavern: This building, known as the Tavern, was designed and built by Chester and Hattie Howard in 1931 shortly after they purchased this property where Abraham Lincoln spent his early boyhood years. The structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, served at various times as a dance hall, tavern, museum, and gift shop. The property continued to be operated by the descendants of the Howard family until April 2001 when LaRue County Fiscal Court purchased the property and donated it to the National Park Service to be operated as a unit of the Abraham Lincoln National Historic Site. The building will remain as an exterior exhibit until plans can be developed to determine its future use.
4. LINCBO_081006_48.JPG: The Tavern
5. LINCBO_081006_53.JPG: Slavery In The Valley (Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail sign) Abraham Lincoln most likely encountered slavery while living at Knob Creek as a young child. In 1811, when Lincoln was two years old, this portion of Kentucky was part of Hardin County. At the time, there were 1,007 slaves in Hardin County, compared to 1,627 white males who were sixteen years of age or older. Five years later, when the Lincoln family moved from Kentucky, the owner of nearby Atherton's Ferry owned eight slaves. Historians are just beginning to learn about the history of slavery in the surrounding area of Knob Creek. In addition to the likely presence of slaves on some neighboring farms, the Old Cumberland Trail (today U. S. Hwy. 31E) ran directly beside the Lincoln family farm. It was a main route between Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee. Some historians believe it was one of the overland routes slave dealers used to transport enslaved African Americans from Kentucky to slave markets farther south. Lincoln's parents, Thomas and Nancy, attended the Little Mount Baptist Church. This church is believed to have been formed by antislavery advocates in 1810. It may have been part of a much larger antislavery movement within the Baptist churches of Kentucky, beginning in the 1790s. Lincoln later recalled that his father's decision to move the family from Kentucky to Indiana was partly due to slavery. "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel." -- Abraham Lincoln to Albert Hodges, editor of the Frankfurt Commonwealth, April 4, 1864.
6. LINCBO_081006_69.JPG: Lincoln Knob Creek Farm: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) lived on this 228 acre farm, 1811-1816. He wrote in 1860 "My earliest recollection is of the Knob Creek Place." A younger brother was born here.
7. LINCBO_081006_87.JPG: Abraham Lincoln's First School: Lincoln's formal education began in a primitive log cabin near this site. While the Lincoln family was living on Knob Creek, he and his sister Sarah attended ABC schools for a short period of time. First school taught by Zachariah Riney; the second by Caleb Hazel. The Lincolns' home stood 2 miles south on the Old Cumberland Road.
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