Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHS maintains that Abraham Lincoln was born on the Sinking Spring Farm in Kentucky, February 12, 1809. What proof do we have to offer visitors who challenge this claim?
Below is a direct quote from Abraham Lincoln written in 1859 while preparing to run for president in the 1860 election. “I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, I should say.”[1] …at a point within the now County of Larue, a mile or a mile and a half from where Hodgen’s Mill now is. My parents being dead, and my own memory not serving, I know no means of identifying the precise locality. It was on the Nolin.[2] There is legal documentation that the Lincoln family was living on the Sinking Spring Farm in 1809. “In December 1808, Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham, received from one Isaac Bush an assignment of a parcel of land in central Kentucky, on the “waters of the South Fork of Nolin, containing three hundred acres beginning at or near a spring called the Sinking Spring …. On this land, somewhere in the vicinity of a knoll by the Sinking Spring, he built a rough cabin in which
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