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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

Land could be had almost anywhere for almost nothing those days, and Thomas got a farm on credit near where now stands Hodgenville.

From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)