"My earliest recollection is of the Knob Creek place." So
wrote Abraham Lincoln on June 4, 1860, to Samuel
Haycraft of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Haycraft had
invited the future president to visit his childhood home in
Kentucky. The Lincoln family lived on 30 acres of the 228
acre Knob Creek Farm from the time Abraham was two
and a half until he was almost eight years old. Here he
learned to talk and soon grew big enough to run errands
such as carrying water, and gathering wood for the fires.
Abraham recalled in later years numerous memories of
his childhood here; a stone house he had passed while
taking corn to Hodgen's Mill; a certain big tree that had
attracted his boyish fancy; the old homestead; the clear
stream where he fished; and the surrounding hills where
he picked berries were all impressed on his mind.
-"Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood Home at Knob Creek,"
National Park Service
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