Each year in
Hodgenville they hold Lincoln Days. People come from far and
wide to visit the place where Abraham Lincoln was born. The
biggest part of the Event happens the Second Saturday in
October. Many Lincoln's show up for the Parade and the
Annual look alike contest held on Saturday night. All of the
Abraham Lincoln's spend the rest of the year doing their
First Person Living Historian impressions at towns all
across the United States and other country's. But this one
day they come to join together and let people of LaRue
county select the one They think looks most like "ABE" for
that year.
This Museum sits on
the spot where the log cabin sat. Inside the Museum
is the Log Cabin. Thought for many years to be the
real log cabin, it is now believed to be a great
reproduction of that cabin with the possibility of
having a log or two from the original cabin. There
are 56 steps in the stairway. One for each year of
Lincoln's life
Thomas Lincoln bought this cabin in December of 1808. That
was just before "Abe" was born on February 12 of 1809.
Thomas moved the family here to one of the more beautiful
places you could imagine. Trees surrounded the cabin on
three sides with the sinking spring at the bottom of the
hill. Too bad the farm just "Winked Out" said Thomas
This is the second
home that Abe Lincoln lived in. Thomas and Nancy with
daughter Sara and son little "Abe" moved here when he was
two years old. They would live here until he would turn
seven. Abe said he remember this place when he wrote about
his childhood in 1858.
Smack dab in the middle of Hodgenville stands this
Statue of the 16th President Abraham Lincoln. By far
the most Famous person to ever live here. Just
behind the Stature is the Lincoln Museum. Many nice
scenes of Lincoln's life. The Museum Store has many
nice things only found here.
