First Lincoln Memorial - Kentucky

by Debra Martz

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First Lincoln Memorial - Kentucky

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Debra Martz

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First Lincoln Memorial - Kentucky by Debra Martz
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When making the drive across the USA to visit family, it is mostly Interstate driving in order to make good time. But I often tire of that and start searching for a reason to leave the Interstate. My google search of our route between Louisville, KY and Nashville, TN presented me with the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site!! So we left I-65 and 15 miles later we were there...not too far out of the way at all. Of course we arrived in the rain but that was okay as it was light enough to still get out with umbrellas.

This memorial was built between 1909 and 1911 through donations by approximately 100,000 Americans amounting to nearly $350,000. The money was raised through a fund raiser by the Lincoln Farm Association. In 1916 the Memorial was donated to to the Federal government, which established the Abraham Lincoln National Park on July 17, 1916.
Architect John Russell Pope's design of the building included many symbolisms related to Abraham Lincoln, including fifty-six steps leading up to the building to represent the fifty-six years of Lincoln's life. Sixteen windows in the building and sixteen rosettes on the interior ceiling are there to remind visitors that Lincoln was the sixteenth president. The building was designed specifically to house the "symbolic" birth cabin of Abraham Lincoln on the site of Lincoln's birth. "Symbolic" birth cabin because what was once thought to be the reconstructed Lincoln log cabin, today, historians recognize that the former claim was essentially inaccurate.

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