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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Information
 
Poster from Lincoln's Centennial Celebration in 1909
Poster from Lincoln's Centennial Celebration in 1909

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
February 12, 2008 - February 12, 2010

For information about Bicentennial events and activities visit one or all of the Websites listed below.

  • For National Park Service sites related to Abraham Lincoln click here
  • For National Bicentennial Signature events and activities click here
  • For events and activities in the tri-state area (Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois) click here
  • For the Kentucky Lincoln Bicentennial Commission click here
  • For information about Kentucky's Lincoln Heritage Trail click here
  • For the Hodgenville, Kentucky website click here
Statue of Abraham Lincoln in Hodgenville's town square
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Henry Clay's estate Ashland in Lexington, KY
Knob Creek cabin has been restored
Knob Creek cabin has been restored
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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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