Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site: Cultural Landscape Report, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, National Park Service
Lawliss L and Hitchcock S. 2004. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site: Cultural Landscape Report, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. NPS Southeast Regional Office. Southeast Regional Office
The landscape history of the site known today as the Birthplace Unit of the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site illustrates the evolution of a relatively undeveloped farmstead to a fully developed memorial park visited by many thousands of people each year. From a review of the available documents, the integrity of the historic landscape of the Thomas Lincoln farstead, which was also know as Sinking Spring or Nolin Creek Farm, has been lost. Other landscape features of the Lincoln farm either did not exist or were removed or relocated by subsequent owners. Construction of the Memorial Building by the Lincoln Farm Association, followed by the federal government’s development to create a park, erased the last vestiges of the site’s agricultural past. The focus of this Cultural Landscape Report is to evaluate the significance of the existing Memorial Landscape, which is concentrated on the western half of the property, and to provide treatment recommendations to preserve its characteristic features. The development on the eastern half of the property will be presented, but, having no effect on the Memorial Landscape, will not be evaluated for its significance.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Lawliss, Lucy; Hitchcock, Susan
- Date of Issue
- 2004
- Publisher
- NPS Southeast Regional Office
- Units
- ABLI , SER
- Keywords
- Agriculture, commemorative, European Amerians, farm, formal ornamental plantings, hardwood woodland, Kentucky, log cabin, Nancy Hanks, president, Recreation, rural land, Sinking Spring Farm, terraced hedges, Thomas Lincoln, turf grass