In honor of the anniversary of the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln on February 12, the Kentucky Department of Tourism is promoting a tri-state Lincoln trail andwebsite: www.lincolnadventures.com. The trail highlights important areas in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois significant to the Lincoln story.
The Tri-state Lincoln trail was first established in the 1970s by a commission and revived in 2009 for the observance of the Lincoln Bicentennial. Also created during the Lincoln Bicentennial is the Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail: http://www.kentuckylincolntrail.org/ . The LHT trail features sites and attractions that tell of his boyhood journey through Kentucky but also of the family and others that shaped and influenced the future president.
“Kentucky is where the Abraham Lincoln story begins and has its roots. President Lincoln was born here and had significant, deep and lifelong ties to family, friends and peers that developed here. And together Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois tell the Lincoln story as no place else in the entire world can tell it,” said Don Parkinson, secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet of Tourism, Arts and Heritage.
The trail’s companion website is a source of information about the tri-state trail including sample one, three and five day itineraries, and links to each state’s tourism offices for more detailed trip planning information.
Kentucky sites included on the trail are the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Historical Park, Knob Creek Boyhood Home, Lincoln Museum, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, and the Mary Todd Lincoln House among others.
Story provided by: Kentucky Department of Travel & Tourism