Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was the first president born west of the Appalachian Mountains. His birth in a log cabin at Sinking Springs Farm took place on February 12, 1809, when that part of Kentucky was still a rugged frontier. When Abraham was two and a half his father moved his young family ten miles away to a farm on Knob Creek. The story of Lincoln's journey from the log cabin to the White House began here and has long been a powerful symbol of the unlimited possibilities of American life.

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