The great thing (and maybe the ONLY great thing) about Lenny being in Kentucky for the past year and a half, is that when I visit there, we try to go on different expeditions.

When last there, we went to Hodgenville, KY, birthplace of Abraham Lincoln - shows how much I knew - I thought he was born in Illinois!

Lincoln was born on Sinking Spring Farm, where his parents had settled as pioneers in the early 1800's.
They of course used what they could raise and what grew at hand for food, shelter, and tools.

Though there was a log cabin on the site of the farm, the cabin that is housed there now, is not original and is considered by the Park Service to be a "symbolic" cabin.

The cabin was bought by a NY businessman in 1894 and had it moved to a site near Sinking Spring.  It was dismantled and reassembled for exhibition in many cities.  Then in 1905, the farm was purchased by some notables, (Mark Twain among them) and the Lincoln Farm Association was established to preserve the birthplace.

A memorial was built to house the cabin and President Teddy Roosevelt laid the cornerstone in 1909.
The granite and marble monument was designed by John Russell Pope and erected in 1909 to 1911.  There are 56 steps leading up to the Memorial Building, one for each year of the President's life.