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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic SiteA picture of Queen of the Prairie growing at the Boyhood Home Unit at Knob Creek
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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
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BIRTHPLACE UNIT
Labor Day through Memorial Day: 8:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. (ET)
Memorial Day through Labor Day: 8:00 a.m. - 6:45 p.m. (ET)

BOYHOOD HOME UNIT AT KNOB CREEK
Open daylight hours year around
Interpretive staff available as follows:
Saturday and Sunday only beginning April 1st until Memorial Day: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET)
Daily Memorial Day through Labor Day: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET)

 
A picture of visitors on a Ranger led walk at the Boyhood Home Unit at Knob Creek
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Picture of Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, stepmother of our sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln  

Did You Know?
Abraham Lincoln had a stepmother and stepsiblings. About one year after his mother Nancy died his father Thomas remarried a widow, Sarah Bush Johnston, from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. She had two girls and one boy.

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