Lincoln Boyhood Home

  • Also Known As: Knob Creek Farm

  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District

My earliest recollection is of the Knob Creek place. Abraham Lincoln

From 1811 to 1816, Knob Creek Farm was the Lincoln homestead. The Lincoln's cabin was destroyed in the 19th century and replaced in 1932 with a similar cabin. The single-pen log structure was moved from Austin Gollaher's family property about one mile from Abraham Lincoln's birthplace. Hattie Howard positioned and restored the Gollaher cabin base on recollections of "Uncle Bob" and John Barry who had also seen the original cabin. The Howard family operated Lincoln's boyhood home, and Lincoln Tavern for seventy years. The site was transferred to the National Park Service in 2002. - AsNotedIn

I well remember the Lincoln cabin. It was a one room cabin with a fireplace in it. I have played in it many times when I was a child, and I was about thirty years old before it was torn down. - 3 October 1934, Robert "Uncle Bob" Thompson, a 95 year-old neighbor who's parents had attended school with Abe Lincoln

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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1811/00/00 Thomas Lincoln Home The Lincoln family lease thirty acres of the 228-acre Knob Creek farm near the city of Hodgenville. Their cabin was destroyed in 19th century.
1811/00/00 Nancy Hanks Lincoln Home The Lincoln family lease thirty acres of the 228-acre Knob Creek farm near the city of Hodgenville. Their cabin was destroyed in 19th century.
1812/00/00 Abraham Lincoln Life Friend and school mate Austin Gollaher saves Abe Lincoln from drowning in the swollen Knob Creek, at least that is how he tells it.
1816/12/00 Thomas Lincoln Home The Lincolns are forced off their homestead as a result of "difficulty in land titles", a common occurrence in Kentucky.
1932/00/00 Hattie Howell Howard Architect Hattie Howard moves a single-pen log cabin (thought similar to the Lincolns', built c 1800) from Austin Gollaher's family property to replace the lost Lincoln Cabin.
1933/00/00 Hattie Howell Howard Owner Lincoln Tavern opens in late 1933. Chester Howard designed the structure and oversaw the cutting of nearby timber for its construction, 1931-1933.

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Particulars for Lincoln Boyhood Home:
Building Type Cabin
Area of Significance Commemorative Property
Area of Significance Entertainment - Recreation
Criteria Exemplar
Sight Category Historic District
Building Material Log Architecture
Other Description Marker
Building plan Single pen



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 88002531
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Thompson,Robert
Architectural Style: Other
Attribute: Single pen log cabin
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Entertainment-recreation
Applicable Criteria: Event
Criteria Consideration: Commemorative property
Significant Year: 1931, 1933
Historic Function: Recreation and Culture, Commerce, Trade
Historic Sub-Function: Monument, Marker
Current Function: Recreation and Culture, Commerce, Trade
Current Sub-Function: Monument, Marker Specialty store

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