Kentucky During Lincoln's Early Years

The Early Years

In 1809, the year of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, Kentucky was still the frontier. It did not perceive itself – and was not identified – as a Northern state or Southern state. Kentucky was a Western state. Kentucky was the cradle for American expansion and settlement west of the Appalachians. The earliest pioneers had lived in Kentucky for some thirty-five years when the future U. S. President was born in a simple log cabin near Hodgenville.

Pioneer Kentucky		Kentucky in 1809		The First American West