Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — LINCOLN’S BIRTHPLACE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LINCOLN’S BIRTHPLACE.

It Is Now a Desolate Farm In Kentucky. The birthplace of Abraham Lincoln in Laßue County, Kentucky, has just been purchased by Maj. S. P. Gross, who means to make it into a kind of museum field with relics of the President. The place is near Hodgensville, a small hamlet about eighty miles from Louisville. It is a desolate farm, and of the single-room log hut in which the President was born nothing remains but a heap of stones where the rough chimney stood. All else has disappeared, though the de-

cayed stump of what is said to have been a pear tree is seen near by. A few hundred yards to i the southwest there now stands a substantial farmhouse, which

manifestly belongs to a later era. The place has been in the hands of farm tenants for several years and shows signs of neglect* Weeds have grown up around the yard and wild shrubbery in the fence corners. A more unpromising place for the birth of a great man was probably never seen, and the original dwelling was certainly scarcely better than the dreary fourteen-feet-square hut at Elizabethtown, In which Thomas Lincoln, the President’s father, first settled upon his marriage with Nancy Hanks in 1803.

HOUSE IN WHICH LINCOLN WAS BORN.