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Hodgenville

American  
[hoj-uhn-vil] / ˈhɒdʒ ənˌvɪl /

noun

  1. a town in central Kentucky: birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.


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Ceremonies will be held on Feb. 12 in downtown Hodgenville, Kentucky, and at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park, officials said.

From Washington Times Feb. 3, 2020

He instead tweeted at a Baptist pastor in Hodgenville, Ky.

From Washington Post Sep. 13, 2019

Lincoln was born in a dirt-floored one-room log cabin 3 miles south of Hodgenville, Ky., Darwin in upper-middle-class comfort in Shrewsbury, England.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2018

Nearby is a painting of Abraham Lincoln, who was born in Hodgenville, and a photo of John Marshall Harlan, the Supreme Court justice and lone dissenter on Plessy v.

From New York Times Aug. 27, 2014

Hodgenville, Ky.: statue of Lincoln in, by Weinman, 126.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

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