Elizabethtown Tourism & Convention Bureau

Abraham lived in Kentucky from his birth in a log cabin in 1809 until his family moved to Indiana in 1816. As a young boy, Lincoln lived on Sinking Spring Farm and later on Knob Creek Farm, both in what is now Larue County. It was while he lived at Knob Creek that Abe and his sister Sarah first attended "blab" school, a one-room schoolhouse where students recited their lessons aloud at the same time. Today, a marker notes the location of the schoolhouse in Athertonville. Lincoln also found time to play with his neighbors. One of his neighbors, Austin Gollaher, saved Abe from drowning in a flooded Knob Creek. Logs from the Gollahers' cabin were used to make a replica of the Lincolns' cabin at Knob Creek.