Season 1, Episode 16-Abraham Lincoln and Sinking Spring

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Season 1, Episode 16: Abraham Lincoln and Sinking Spring

Abraham Lincoln, boy of the frontier: the first President born in what was then the West, the wilds of Kentucky at Sinking Spring outside of Hodgenville. Learn about Lincoln’s rough childhood and family life, his struggle for education, his rise in politics, and what happened to his birthplace site!

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park site.

More information on the Lincoln Birthplace from the National Park Service.

Lincoln Birthplace from the National Park Foundation.

Timeline of homes where Lincoln lived, from Sinking Spring to the White House.

Lincoln’s Boyhood Home at Knob Creek from the National Park Service.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, in Lincoln City, Indiana.

Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site in Illinois.

Be sure to listen to Abraham Lincoln’s “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 2, “Abraham Lincoln and Springfield” on his homes!

Also be sure to listen to Abraham Lincoln’s “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 3, “Abraham Lincoln’s Tomb” on his gravesite!

From my August 2015 Visit!

Entrance to birthplace site.
The Lincoln family.
Steps leading up to the Lincoln birthplace.
Birthplace cabin.
The birthplace “temple.”

From my May 2019 Visit!

Statue of Lincoln in downtown Hodgenville.
Young Abe.
Abe and me!
I wish I bought the puppet!
The temple!
The cabin inside!
Cabin from another angle.
Lincoln’s birth cabin.
At the birth temple.
Lincoln birthplace!
Birthplace stairs.
The titular Sinking Springs well.
At the Lincoln Birthplace.

From My May 2021 Visit!

Wandering to the birthplace
In the forest
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace temple
Abraham Lincoln birthplace cabin
Birthplace Cabin
At the Lincoln birthplace cabin!
Different angle
With the temple in the background
Heading to the sinking spring
Sign for the spring and cave
Sinking spring
Cabins from its tourist boom
Abraham Lincoln birthplace!

From My January 2024 Visit!

The Birthplace Cabin at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum

The cabin juxtaposed with the White House
Inside the cabin with Abe
The birth cabin in Kentucky in 1912.
Historical image of the birth cabin.
When the birth cabin hit the road for the World’s Fair.
The home Lincoln helped his father build in Indiana.
Abraham Lincoln portrait by George P.A. Healy.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace: 2995 Lincoln Farm Rd, Hodgenville, KY.

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