WE REVISE OUR ROUTE

After checking the weather in the southeast US on the day before leaving for our trip, the high threat of tornadoes and thunderstorms in Georgia and the Carolinas, caused us to revise our route and we traveled west through Maryland, West Virginia and Kentucky before turning south through Tennessee and Alabama.  As it turned out, we made a very wise choice.

 
A Trip Through History in Kentucky

Abraham Lincoln

 

The First Lincoln Memorial enshrines the symbolic birthplace cabin in Hodgenville, KY on the Lincoln Farm Road.  Over 100,000 Americans donated nearly $350,000.  Construction began on February 12, 1909, the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.  The corner stone was laid by President Theodore Roosevelt and President William Howard Taft dedicated the Memorial Building in 1911. See www.nps.gov/abli for more information about this historic site.

The Lincoln Family Farm

The single family log cabin was located at the Sinking Spring, a significant natural water source, part of a network of springs and subsurface streams in the karst limestone.

Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek Farm on the Old Cumberland Road

Abraham Lincoln lived at this location until he was nine years old.  Fortunately he had not yet attained his full growth height.

 

Sharing the road in Kentucky

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