Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin in LaRue County, Kentucky in a town now known as Hodgenville. Lincoln was named after his dead grandfather, who died in 1786 when he was ambushed and shot by an Indian while clearing a field.
A visit to The Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia is like stepping one hundred years into the past. The main building houses the exhibition titled "The Migration Story" which explains the story of the Ulster-Scots and German Palatinates migration down the Wilderness Road. Visit this 67 acre open air museum and learn the story of the people who settled the area. Visit the restored 19th-century living history farm complete with farmhouse and 8 original outbuildings, and tour the restored 1894 one-room Lindamood schoolhouse.
The 1890 farm lane has been in the same place from the day when the first trees were felled. It continued past the farmhouse and over the hill to the neighbors home. It was fenced with a snaked rail fence of chestnut like the one along it now.
