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Site Name Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park Street Address 2995 Lincoln Farm Road City / State / Zip Hodgenville KY, 42748 Phone number 270-358-3137 Web Page www.nps.gov/abli   Admission Fee Free Hours 8:00 A.M. - 6:45 P.M. EDT Memorial Day through Labor Day 8:00 A.M. - 4:45 P.M. EDT Remainder of year Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day Visitor services Handicap accessible rest rooms, handicap accessibility to all park sites, gift shop and picnic area. Regular Events Sunday before the Monday holiday in January: Martin Luther King's birthday; February 12: Lincoln's birthday; September: Constitutional Week; second weekend in October: Lincoln Days Festival     Directions From Louisville: I-65 South to exit 91. Take Hwy 61 East to Hodgenville. Follow the signs to the park. From Nashville: I-65 North to exit 81. Take Hwy 84 East to Hodgenville. Follow the signs to the park. From Lexington: Bluegrass Parkway West to exit 21. Take Hwy 31-E South to Hodgenville. Follow the signs to the park. From Paducah: Western Kentucky Parkway East to Elizabethtown. Take Hwy 61 East to Hodgenville. Follow the signs to the park.	Click to enlarge
Site Description
The American Civil War was one of the most pivotal events in the history of the United States. The preservation of the nation fell to the newly elected sixteenth President from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. Born in a one room log cabin near Hodgen's Mill, Kentucky on February 12, 1809, it was his early formative years in Kentucky, 1809 - 1816, that helped mold the boy into the man that came to be the savior of the nation. Established as a National Park in 1916, Abraham Lincoln National Historic Site preserves the early years of Lincoln's life with the enshrinement of a "symbolic" cabin in a neo-classic Memorial Building on the site where he was born.

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