abraham lincoln birthplace

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks , two farmers, in a one-room log cabin on the 348-acre (1.4 km 2 ) Sinking Spring Farm, in southeast Hardin County, Kentucky (now part of LaRue County ), making him the first president born in the west. The original log cabin that Lincoln is reputed to have been born in was dismantled sometime before 1865. Local tradition held that some of the logs from the cabin were used in construction of a nearby house. New York businessman A.W. Dennett purchased the Lincoln farm in 1894 and used the logs from this house to reconstruct a cabin similar in appearance to the original cabin where Lincoln was born. Soon the cabin was dismantled and re-erected for exhibition in many cities. Eventually the logs for this cabin, along with logs reputed to have belonged to Jefferson Davis' birthplace and possibly a third cabin, were purchased by the Lincoln Farm Association (LFA), which believed they had acquired only Lincoln logs. When workers tried to reconstruct the cabin, they discovered the problem. The LFA bought a one-room cabin similar to the one reconstructed by Dennett. When the last rebuilt cabin was placed in the Memorial Building, its size made visitor circulation difficult. The LFA reduced the cabin's size from 16-by-18 feet to 12-by-17 feet.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_Birthplace_National_Historical_Park

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