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Site Name Lincoln Boyhood Home National Memorial Street Address P.O. Box 1816 City / State / Zip Lincoln City IN, 47552 Phone number 812-937-4541 Web Page www.nps.gov/libo   Admission Fee Adults $3.00, maximum of $5.00/family. Hours Daily 8:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.; Dec.-Feb. park closes at 4:30 P.M.; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. Visitor services Public rest rooms, handicapped access to Memorial Visitor Center, museum, tours. Regular Events February, Sunday closest to Lincoln's birthday, Lincoln Day.     Directions From I-64 exit at U.S. Highway 231 and travel south for 8 miles. Travel east on Indiana Highway 162 at Gentryville. Proceed 2 miles to site.
Site Description
This was the boyhood home of Abraham Lincoln, where he lived from ages seven to twenty-one. The park includes the Memorial Visitor Center; the gravesite of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's mother; and the Lincoln Living Historical Farm, a typical nineteenth-century farm on the Indiana frontier.

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