By the time they moved again in 1816, Abraham was old enough to fetch water and firewood. They worked a 30-acre section of the 228-acre farm. When Abraham was two years old, the Lincolns moved to Knob Creek Farm, not far away. Abraham was named after his grandfather on his father’s side and was Thomas and Nancy Lincoln’s second child. Nolin Creek ran nearby, and the closest town, three miles away, is now called Hodgenville. The themes on the reverses represent the four major aspects of Lincoln’s life.īirth and Early Childhood in Kentucky (1809-1816)Ībraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a small log cabin like the one shown on this one-cent coin. Mint issued four different pennies throughout the year in recognition of the bicentennial (200th anniversary) of Lincoln’s birth and centennial (100th anniversary) of the first year of the Lincoln cent. The Birth and Early Childhood in Kentucky Lincoln Penny is the first coin in the Lincoln Bicentennial One Cent Program.
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