We visited Knob Creek Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky on August 7th. Benjamin is sitting on a split rail fence at this farm where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child just his age. This cabin was owned by the family of Abraham Lincoln's best childhood friend. His own family would have owned a similar cabin.
Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President, was born in a log cabin at Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky. On that spot this Memorial was built in honor of his 100th birthday in 1909. Several years later the same builder designed the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
Building with Lincoln Logs!
Later that same day we discovered that Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is the longest cave in the world and so different from Carlsbad Caverns which we visited in June. This cave system is like long tubes running for miles underground. Our favorite part was Fat Man's Misery where you had to squeeze yourself around and around the curving narrow walls. We wondered why they didn't ask weight and hip size before allowing you to enter!
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