America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, on this day in history, Feb. 12, 1809. Lincoln grew up in a poor family, the son of a Kentucky frontiersman — and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States and was known as “The Great Emancipator,” is Sunday, Feb. 12. According to History.com, ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Ky., on Feb. 12, 1809. His family moved to Indiana in 1816, and Lincoln lived there the rest of his youth. His mother died from a milk sickness when he was 9 ...

The ‘Symbolic Birth Cabin’ in the Memorial Building at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park near Hodgenville, Ky. The Memorial Building is a Beaux-Arts neo-classical building designed ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky on this day 205 years ago: Feb. 12, 1809. Just not this one-room log cabin. Yet this is the cabin enshrined in a formal memorial at the ...

Some presidents like John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump were born into wealth. Others came from working-class families who lived in small cabins or on farms. President Abraham Lincoln was born in a ...

In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem; he also offered services as a wood chopper, county deputy surveyor, and lawyer. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room ...

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park: The National Park Service presents videos honoring Lincoln on Feb. 12 on Facebook. The park in Hodgenville, Kentucky, preserves two farms: Sinking ...