Abraham Lincoln Cabin
Contributor brook silva braga investigates the unusual tale of log cabins at the abraham lincoln birthplace national.
Abraham lincoln cabin. Abraham lincoln was a lawyer living in springfield by the time his parents moved here but his burgeoning law practice often brought him to charleston and the farm especially during the 1840s. Learn more. Drawing of the symbolic birth cabin. Abraham lincoln l n k en.
His father was a pioneer and a farmer and his mother was a deeply religious woman who died when lincoln was young. Abraham lincoln was born in 1809 in a backwoods cabin in kentucky. Lincoln would go on to marry. His early life on kentuckys frontier shaped his character and prepared him to lead the nation through civil war.
President lincolns cottage is currently closed due to covid 19. Take a journey in the life of. This cabin is a replica of the log cabin that thomas lincoln president lincolns father live in. In kentucky you can visit the cabin where honest abe grew up or is it.
Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral constitutional and political crisis in the american civil war. His fathers second wife adored lincoln and is said to have stoked his love of learning. Abraham lincoln never lived here and only occasionally visited but he provided financial help to the household and after thomas died in 1851 abraham owned and maintained the farm for his stepmother sarah bush lincoln. Abraham lincoln log cabin president written by andrew woods illustrated by pat schories our 16th president of the united states was known as the log cabin president.
February 12 1809 april 15 1865 was an american statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the united states 18611865. Abraham lincoln also owned a portion of the farm which he deeded back to his father and step mother for their use during their lifetime. In december 1808 thomas lincoln the father of abraham received from one isaac bush an assignment of a parcel of land in central kentucky on the waters of the south fork of nolincontaining 300 acres beginning at or near a spring called the sinking spring to be twice as long as wide including as much of a grove called the little turkey grove as. President lincoln himself never lived in this house but he helped his father pay for it and would spend days visiting it.