Abraham Lincoln Birthplace/Boyhood Home

Just past the border of Kentucky and Ohio, in Elizabethtown, KY, there lies a great pair of historical sites that recognize the childhood and boyhood of Abraham Lincoln. We saw the sites on a sunny, crisp autumn afternoon, and I would recommend them to anyone traveling through the area.

Tim and I were really surprised to find the Lincoln family Bible in the birthplace musem: we would have expected that Bible to have been in the Library of Congress! This was a bronze statue of Abraham's family that portrays his father, mother, older sister Sarah, and Abraham as a baby.

Below, this was the actual well where the Lincoln family drew their water.

The outside of the Lincoln Boyhood home area was absolutely beautiful. It was amazing to me that no one had developed on it all these years.

John and Anna threw rocks into the creek behind Lincoln's boyhood home. In this very creek, when Abraham was around Christopher's age, he almost drowned once when the creek was high and he and his best friend were trying to cross it. Neither boy could swim, so the friend reached Lincoln a a branch and pulled him back on land. Who would have thought that friend was saving the life of the greatest President the US would ever know?

Above, the beautiful memorial at the Lincoln birthplace. Below, a replica cabin at the Lincoln boyhood home similar to the one the Lincolns lived in.

These are the very fields were Lincoln and his father farmed. They raised corn and pumpkins.