I’ve been there - I thought I was told it was his birthplace. I don’t see how measuring how old the logs are will tell us whether he slept, lived or was born there. Just that he could have.
If honest Abe were alive he would probably be tweeting and making YouTube videos about it.
So, if the question is whether Abe slept in his birthplace home, we’d have to know how colicky he was as a baby - at the extreme, he would NOT have slept there.
We do know that he was born Feb 12 - so, as a winter baby, he could very well have been a bilirubin baby, with plenty of jaundice, and TONS of sleeping. In this scenario, he clearly would have been sleeping at his birthplace home.
I’ve been there. They say that legend has it that he slept in a cabin like that in that area. There are lots of things that point to the area. But log cabins don’t really last. And so its really more of the type of place and the area that his father and mother were when they had him. His father did buy the land. So we have records that Lincoln was there.
You can, however, see lots of beds that he slept in, in Illinois. As well as the bed he died in, which is in Chicago. Lincoln lived in Kentucky for just a few short years, before his father moved to Indian where he was brought up. And then he moved to New Salem Illinois when he was 21. So Kentucky is just showing you the land where Lincoln was born, and the type of house. And of course they are charging you a fee and providing you a gift shop with Lincoln logs, which were invented by F.L. Wrights son.
This is interesting. Where I grew up in Western NY, Orleans county; there’s a place called “Three Bridges”. An old (really old) hotel that is now low-end apartments has a sign that says “Lincoln slept here”. This has been there for a long time... The sign was very aged in the 70s when I was there. We always believed it was a fact.. Who knows? I don’t even know if it is still there.
One of my very old history books circa 1850 had a picture of Lincoln’s birthplace and IIRC, it was NOT a log cabin.