Road Trip-Eastern Kentucky

Lincoln Tavern The Lincoln Tavern is located at Knob Creek. Right next to a restored cabin that represents Lincoln's Boyhood home. The tavern is currently closed while the park service gathers enough funds to repair the structure for safe tourism. Apparently, it has been there for about 100 years and is not so structurally sound. Traveling outside Lexington Kentucky, you can visit this site as well. It is not very big, and there is a cabin to examine to see how honest Abe lived as a boy. According to the National Park Service ( Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home National Park ) the Lincoln Family lived at Knob Creek for 5 years before moving to Indiana. The Tavern, explained in the image above, still looks good today. The small Cabin and the Tavern are the only two exhibits I saw at Knob Creek. We almost missed it driving down the road. It has a small parking lot, and when we visited, there was a Ranger explaining the Cabin and the status of the Tavern. I so wa