Posted on 02/11/2018 11:40:26 AM PST by bgill
Visitors to a small log cabin in Kentucky are right to ask: Is it true that Abraham Lincoln slept here? On the eve of Lincoln's 209th birthday tomorrow, Brook Silva-Braga has the answer... "What we're trying to do is authenticate when this cabin was made by using the tree rings in the logs," he replied. Some say our 16th president, born in these hills in 1809, spent some of his childhood in this cabin at Knob Creek. But did he?... So no, Abraham Lincoln did not sleep here in the Knob Creek cabin … or in the "symbolic cabin" at his birthplace.
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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.
Posting pics of himself and his male sleeping companion on Instagram
Made me laugh in the tub
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.
It’s hard to have the cabin as his birthplace since the logs were dated to his time as POTUS.
Speaking of fabrications, I wonder if this is the site where he learned his vampire slaying craft?
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.
LBJ used the next door neighbor’s potty and it had a sign on it at one time. When new people move in, I tell them the story. They never believe me.
Age of the logs can’t rule it IN, but they can rule it OUT.
.... but tree rings can’t do it, because they would only show AGE of the trees at the time they were cut. Which is NOT at all the same as how long ago (from present date) the trees were cut. I don’t know if they can use something like carbon dating precisely enough to know how long ago the trees were cut down.
maybe they will provide evidence he didn’t
True!
Posting pics of himself and his male sleeping companion on Instagram
Which bed did Trump pee in?
A lot of these buildings were rebuilt in the early 1930's as WPA and CCC projects. New Salem State Park, outside of Springfield, is typical of these rebuilds.
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