In the fall of 1808, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln settled on Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky. Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born there in a one-room log cabin.
A Beaux-Arts neo-classical Memorial Building was designed by John Russell Pope for the birthplace site. In 1909 the cornerstone was laid by President Theodore Roosevelt and the building was dedicated in 1911 by President William Howard Taft. Almost a hundred years after Thomas Lincoln moved from Sinking Spring Farm, a similar log cabin was placed inside the Memorial Building. The Memorial Building features 16 windows, 16 rosettes on the ceiling, and 16 fence poles, representing Lincoln being the 16th president. The 56 steps leading up to the building entrance represent his age at his death. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
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