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Elizabethtown is located in the center of Kentucky's Historic Heartland. Within a fifty mile radius you'll find Louisville, home to Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby, and other exciting attractions. Bardstown, just 20 minutes east, is home to Federal Hill where Stephen Foster was inspired to write Kentucky's State song, "My Old Kentucky Home". Ride an authentic steam locomotive train at the Kentucky Railway Museum, on US 31E in New Haven. Or go spelunking at Mammoth Cave National Park, the world's longest cave system, just 40 minutes away. For something equally dramatic, visit the Pine Knob Theatre west of Elizabethtown near Rough River Dam State Resort Park. The Elizabethtown Greenbelt Walking Tours and Parks is an expanding series of trails and miniparks around Freeman Lake, Buffalo Lake, Fishermans Lake and all along the streams that flow to and from them. These parks and their accompanying riparian areas serve as a way to protect the recreational, ecological, educational, historical and aesthetic values, and preserve the natural attributes of the many local waterways -- things that make Elizabethtown a pleasant place to live. Something exciting happens in Elizabethtown every summer. Each Thursday night, history is brought to life during Elizabethtown's Self-Guided Downtown Walking Tour. From pioneer days to the early part of the twentieth century, the tour covers twenty-five historic sites and buildings varying in age and architectural style. Give your feet a rest with Elizabethtown's Self-Guided Driving Tour, covering thirty-six historically significant homes, buildings and sites. You'll soon discover a charming community blessed with gracious homes lovingly restored with landscaped gardens along tree lined streets. The Lincoln Heritage House was restored to perpetuate the memory of a man, humble in origin and deed who probably gave not a single thought to history or to the consequences of the events of the age in which he lived, but who, nevertheless, will go down in the annals of this country as the father of a giant of a man who changed the course of history in the United States for all time to come. Thomas Lincoln was an ordinary man and though he was much maligned by historians and biographers of his renowned son, President Abraham Lincoln, he as a respected, esteemed, substantial citizen of Hardin County. Thomas Lincoln was a skilled cabinet-maker and farmer and was a resident of Hardin County for more than ten years. He owned a 200-acre farm on Mill Creek and a log house in Elizabethtown where Sarah, the first child of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, was born in 1807. The two log houses which comprise the Lincoln Heritage House were the home of pioneer Hardin Thomas and his family. The first was built in 1789 and the second and larger one was erected about 1805 with the help of a family friend, Thomas Lincoln, who also built the identical stairways, the mantel pieces and other woodwork.
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www.TourEtown.com |
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(270) 765-2175 |
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(800) 437-0092 |
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