A small town in central Kentucky is home to only about 3,000 people today, but a boy born there changed America forever. Abraham Lincoln was born just south of Hodgenville, in Sinking Spring. Until age 7, he was raised in Knob Creek, a few miles to the northeast.
Hodgenville is situated almost squarely between the first two places in rural Kentucky where Abraham Lincoln lived. In fact, the drive from the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park to Hodgenville is a little over three miles, while the distance between Hodgenville and The Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek is around seven.
