Hodgenville, Kentucky
LaRue County
21-37396
Hodgenville is the district capital of the LaRue County in the U.S. state of Kentucky and the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America. According to the 2000 census Hodgenville had 2,874 inhabitants, of whom 87 per cent are white and 11 percent black. Seven of the 16 churches in the town are among Baptist churches.
Geography
The city is located in central Kentucky near the Rolling Fork, a small tributary of the Ohio. The nearest major town is Louisville. Even Fort Knox is located not far from Hodgenville.
History
The first settlement on the territory of the later Hodgenville emerged after 1788 in the vicinity of the mill of a certain Robert Hodgen. Ten years before the official founding of the city, on February 12, 1809 came in a about three miles south one-room log cabin later President Lincoln to the world. Two years later the family moved to Lincoln in another log cabin, about ten miles northeast of the city before they all left Kentucky in 1816 and moved to Indiana.
Although Abraham Lincoln so only the first childhood years spent here and the original homes of his family hardly anything has been preserved, Hodgenville now houses two memorials:
- Abraham Lincoln 's Birthplace in 1911, a neo-classical building of the temple in which a "symbolic " replica of the birth hut stands and
- Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home, which was built in 1931 on the site of the second hut at the Lincoln Knob Creek family. Also, this historic log cabin is not original.
The two houses are shown as a memorial since 1916, now managed by the National Park Service under the name of Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park on the type of a National Historical Park and.
- Place in Kentucky
- Location in North America
- LaRue County
- County Seat in Kentucky