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October 15, 1966. (1966-October-15) Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park is a designated U.S. historic park preserving two separate farm sites in LaRue County, Kentucky, where Abraham Lincoln was born and lived early in his childhood. He was born at the Sinking Spring site south of Hodgenville and remained there until the family ...
Their first child, a daughter named Sarah Lincoln, was born on February 10, 1807, near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, at Mill Creek. [15] [22] By early 1809, Lincoln bought another farm, 300-acre (1.2 km 2), near Hodgenville at Nolin Creek, located 14 miles southeast of Elizabethtown and near the home of Betsy (Elizabeth) and Thomas Sparrow.
Website. elizabethtownky.org. Elizabethtown is a home rule-class city [3] and the county seat of Hardin County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 28,531 at the 2010 census, [4] and was estimated at 31,394 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2020, making it the 11th-largest city in the state.
Known for. Founder of Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Relatives. John Hardin. Martin D. Hardin. Benjamin Hardin. Captain William Hardin ( c. 1745 – July 22, 1821) was an American soldier, farmer, and founder of Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Known as "Big Bill" or "Indian Bill", he was related to Colonel John Hardin, for whom Hardin County, Kentucky, was named.
Hardin County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky.Its county seat is Elizabethtown. [1] The county was formed in 1792. [2] Hardin County is part of the Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Louisville/Jefferson County—Elizabethtown-Bardstown, KY-IN Combined Statistical Area.
Joseph Hanks (1725–1793) was the great-grandfather of United States President Abraham Lincoln. It is generally accepted that Joseph was the father of Lucy Hanks, the mother of Nancy Hanks Lincoln. There is also a theory that Joseph and his wife, Ann ("Nannie"), had a son named James who married Lucy Shipley, sired Nancy Hanks, but died before ...
In December 1808, Thomas, Nancy, and their daughter, Sarah, moved from Elizabethtown to the Sinking Spring farm, on Nolin Creek, near Hodgen's Mill, in Hardin County, Kentucky. (The farm is part of the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in present-day LaRue County, Kentucky.)
The Larue-Layman House is a two-story brick house in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]The house was originally built in 1831 as a small brick home for Jacob Warren LaRue, a member of a local pioneer family and the husband of Eliza Helm, who was the sister of Governor John LaRue Helm. [2]