Feb

Abe Lincoln’s Birthday: Logs of Lincoln Cabin Stored in College Point ~~ A MacNeil Month Exclusive

FEB. 2026 ~~ A MacNeil Month Exclusive

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On this Two-Hundred-Seventeenth Anniversary of Abe Lincoln’s birth in Kentucky, we have been informed of an odd link between:

The logs of the Lincoln cabin birth place,
College Point, Queens
The Poppenhusen Institute and
Hermon MacNeil

Research by James Haas, has revealed that the logs from the cabin where Abe Lincoln was born were stored briefly in College Point, Queens at the Poppenhusen Institute before they were returned to Kentucky.

Abe Lincoln

The log cabin at Hodgenville, KY inside the Memorial Building.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park is a designated U.S. historic park preserving two separate farm sites in LaRue County, Kentucky, where Abraham Lincoln was born and lived early in his childhood. He was born at the Sinking Spring site south of Hodgenville and remained there until the family moved to the Knob Creek Farm northeast of Hodgenville when he was two years old, living there until he was seven years of age. The park’s visitor center is located at the Sinking Spring site.

Sinking Spring

In the late fall of 1808, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln settled on Sinking Spring Farm. Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born there in a one-room log cabin. Today this site bears the address of 2995 Lincoln Farm Road, Hodgenville, Kentucky. A cabin, symbolic of the one in which Lincoln was born, is preserved within a 1911 neoclassical memorial building at the site. On the site is a Visitor Center and the First Lincoln Memorial.

Memorial Building

A Beaux-Arts neo-classical Memorial Building was designed by John Russell Pope for the birthplace site. On February 12, 1909, the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the cornerstone was laid by President Theodore Roosevelt and the building was dedicated on November 9, 1911, by President William Howard Taft.^[3] Almost a hundred years after Thomas Lincoln moved from Sinking Spring Farm, a similar log cabin was placed inside the Memorial Building. The Memorial Building features 16 windows, 16 rosettes on the ceiling, and 16 fence poles, representing Lincoln being the 16th president. The 56 steps leading up to the building entrance represent his age at his death.^[4]