Editing Hodgenville, Kentucky (section)

==History==
[[File:Hodgenville, Kentucky (1904).jpg|thumb|left|Hodgenville in 1904]]
Robert Hodgen, a [[Pennsylvania]] native who moved to [[Virginia]], purchased {{convert|10000|acre}} of land in the vicinity. In 1789, after the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]], when settlers started moving west into Kentucky, he built a mill at the site. After his death, the community that developed around it was called "Hodgenville" upon the petition of his widow and children. The United States post office at the site, however, was known as "Hodgensville" from 1826 to 1904.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA143 | title=Kentucky Place Names | publisher=University Press of Kentucky | date=1987 | access-date=28 April 2013 | author=Rennick, Robert M. | pages=143| isbn=0813126312 }}</ref>

The city was formally incorporated by the [[Kentucky Assembly|state assembly]] on February 18, 1836.<ref name=sos>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Hodgenville, Kentucky". Accessed 29 July 2013.</ref>

===Abraham Lincoln birthplace===
{{Main|Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park}}
[[Abraham Lincoln]] was born in a small cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville on February 12, 1809.<ref>{{cite web|title=Abraham Lincoln 16th President, 1861-1865|url=http://www.presidentialavenue.com/al.cfm#1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907122137/http://www.presidentialavenue.com/al.cfm%231#1|archive-date=September 7, 2012|work=presidentialavenue.com}}</ref> About two years later, the family moved to another farm in the Hodgenville area.<ref>{{cite web|title=Abraham Lincoln 16th President, 1861-1865|url=http://www.presidentialavenue.com/al.cfm#2|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131231740/http://www.presidentialavenue.com/al.cfm%232#2|archive-date=January 31, 2013|work=presidentialavenue.com}}</ref> Despite claims made later, the cabin Lincoln was born in was likely destroyed by the time of his assassination.

The [[Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park]] labels the replica cabin, which was built thirty years after his death, the "Traditional Lincoln Birthplace Cabin". The significance of the two Hodgenville sites (birthplace and boyhood home) are found in the setting. Preservation of these two national sites allows visitors to see the landscape of the earliest period of Abraham Lincoln's life. The Lincoln Museum is opened for visitors downtown, and two bronze [[Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Hodgenville, Kentucky)|Abraham Lincoln statues]] stand at the town square, one of Lincoln as a child, the other as an adult.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CuW8LhifHagC&q=mainstrasse+covington&pg=PA34 | title=Fun With the Family Kentucky: Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids | publisher=Globe Pequot | date=January 30, 2005 | access-date=2013-05-07 | author=Day, Teresa | pages=34 | isbn=9780762734900 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>