Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, National Historical Park in LaRue County, United States

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park centers on a light tan ashlar memorial building at Sinking Spring Farm. Designed by John Russell Pope, it has a portico of six plain columns above a wide flight of stone steps, with a low stepped parapet and shallow roof. Inside stands a symbolic one-room log cabin.

The Lincoln Farm Association built the Beaux-Arts memorial between 1909 and 1911; President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone on February 12, 1909, and President William Howard Taft dedicated it on November 9, 1911. The federal government received the memorial and property in 1916 and established Abraham Lincoln National Park on July 17, 1916. The Knob Creek site, where the family lived from about 1811 until 1816, joined the park in November 2001.

The name of the park refers directly to the birthplace of the 16th president of the United States, whose early years unfolded in this rural part of Kentucky. Visitors can trace how the simple origins and the landscape of the region shaped Lincoln's later life and political career.

The entrance is located on US Route 31E, about 3 miles (5 km) south of the town of Hodgenville, and is accessible throughout the year. The paths around the memorial are in good condition and suitable for wheelchairs, while the trails through the woods run somewhat unevenly.

The memorial's 56 steps match Lincoln's age at his death, and its 16 windows, 16 ceiling rosettes and 16 fence poles mark him as the 16th president. The cabin inside is not the original: the logs date mostly to the 1840s, and the structure was shortened from 16 by 18 feet to 12 by 17 feet to ease visitor circulation.