On our way to Lincoln's birthplace we stopped off at a little town which was having an arts and crafts festival. We sure didn't know what we were getting into. It was all so well organized; signs directing us to parking areas but all we needed to do was follow all the cars. We have not seen anything like it. There were acres for parking. When we got to the location for the festival we were overwhelmed at how huge it was. We spent an hour and only saw about a quarter of it. It was so crowded we couldn't move! I started getting claustrophobia so we left and headed for Lincoln's birthplace memorial.
Lincoln's birthplace is a National Historic Site. The memorial is a replica of the one in Washington D.C. Inside the memorial is a replica of the cabin where Lincoln was born and lived until he was 2. His family moved to another location about 10 miles away where they lived until he was 7 and then they moved to Indiana. We went to both those locations but not the museum since we went to the one in Springfield IL and that just couldn't be beat. And, we still wanted to see Fort Knox.
The first photo is the memorial, the 2nd is a replica cabin where he lived from 2-7 which looks like the one he was born in. More photos in "photo gallery".
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