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Lincoln Cabin at Lincoln Homestead State Park, near Springfield, Kentucky

Frank Shannon is credited for the photograph of the Lincoln Cabin on this unused postcard.  It is a Natural Color card distributed by W. M. Cline Co., of Chattanooga, Tennessee.  The cabin is located in Lincoln Homestead State Park just north of Springfield, Kentucky. 

Homestead State Park has both historic and reconstructed buildings associated with Thomas Lincoln, the father of President Abraham Lincoln.  Thomas Lincoln courted Nancy Hanks, the president’s mother, when she worked as a seamstress and lived in the two-story Francis Berry House, the only original structure on the park grounds.  Thomas supposedly proposed to Nancy by the large fireplace in the cabin.

The reconstructed buildings include the workshop where Thomas learned blacksmithing and carpentry and the Lincoln cabin shown on the card.  The cabin is 16 feet or 4.9 meters by 18 feet or 5.5 meters and sits on the site of the original cabin where Thomas lived with his family when he was a boy.  The reconstructed cabin was made of 155 year-old logs.  Thomas Lincoln made the furnishings.

President Lincoln’s grandfather, Captain Abraham Lincoln, moved here with his wife, Beersheba and their children following the American Revolutionary War, from Virginia in 1781 or 1782.  Captain Lincoln was killed during an attack by an American Indian in 1786 and is buried near the cabin.  The exact location of his burial is unknown.  During that attack Thomas was saved by his older brother.

The buildings are open to visitors between May and September.  The 120-acre park has an 18-hole golf course, a picnic area, a playground for children, and fishing at the lake.

For additional information, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Homestead_Stake_Park