Knob Creek Farm Virtual Cache
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When Abraham Lincoln asked about his Kentucky years he would explain that, “My earliest recollection, however is of the Knob Creek place“. Lincoln was able to recount many of the events from his boyhood years spent in one of the most beautiful valleys in the area.
While living on this farm he saw a younger brother, Thomas die of an unknown sickness. He saw the ultimate indignity of fellow human beings of a different color driven in chains to some distant slave market. Over this same dusty road Abraham and his sister Sarah walked two-miles to the on-room log schoolhouse where they acquired the rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic.
Thomas Lincoln’s Knob Creek farm was situated along the road that connected Louisville and Nashville. This location afforded the young Lincoln a “window to the world.” It was through this same window that the Lincoln’s saw the County Sheriff arrive with legal papers that evicted them and nine other neighboring families from this land because of a flaw in the land title. A portion of this road would carry the family to Indiana in the fall of 1816, and away from Knob Creek, the only Kentucky home Lincoln could later remember.
Here, the Knob Creek Valley, the young Lincoln encountered a wide diversity of ideals and people that began to shape a young, curious and ambitious mind. Even the land offered the growing boy a diversity of plants, wildlife and topography to stimulate his senses. This relatively unspoiled place is the land that molded the man that became the 16th President of the United States.( National Park Service Pamphlet Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek)
This cache is a virtual cache because it is located with the boundaries of the National Park Service. In order for you to log this cache as a find you will have to answer the following questions:
1. How large was the farm?
2. From what year to what year did the Lincoln’s live on this farm?
3. Facing the left side of the cabin, (the side next to the information sign), how many
chinked logs are there starting from the bottom log to the roof?
Please e-mail the answers to the following e-mail for conformation:
gerald.overstreet@na.amedd, army.mil
When visiting this site the National Park Service asks that you do not enter areas or buildings that are closed to the public. Watch out for vehicles entering and leaving the parking lot. Be cautious of slippery rocks and unstable banks along streams. Do not disturb wildlife, plants and cultural natural features. Confine picnicking to the designated area. Open fires are not permitted. Lock your vehicles and store valuables out of site.
Good Caching and enjoy this beautiful valley. Please don’t forget to visit the Lincoln Birthplace in Hodgenville KY.
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