Lincoln Boyhood Home
- Also Known As: Knob Creek Farm
- Address: US 31E
- Vicinity: 1 mi S of Athertonville
My earliest recollection is of the Knob Creek place. Abraham Lincoln
From 1811 to 1816, Knob Creek Farm was the Lincoln homestead. The Lincoln's cabin was destroyed in the 19th century and replaced in 1932 with a similar cabin. The single-pen log structure was moved from Austin Gollaher's family property about one mile from Abraham Lincoln's birthplace. Hattie Howard positioned and restored the Gollaher cabin base on recollections of "Uncle Bob" and John Barry who had also seen the original cabin. The Howard family operated Lincoln's boyhood home, and Lincoln Tavern for seventy years. The site was transferred to the National Park Service in 2002. - AsNotedIn
I well remember the Lincoln cabin. It was a one room cabin with a fireplace in it. I have played in it many times when I was a child, and I was about thirty years old before it was torn down. - 3 October 1934, Robert "Uncle Bob" Thompson, a 95 year-old neighbor who's parents had attended school with Abe Lincoln