Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park preserves the Kentucky landscapes of Lincoln’s first seven years at Sinking Spring, where he was born in 1809, and Knob Creek, where he lived until his family moved to Indiana in 1816. The sites trace his early family life, including his father’s tenancy, the birth and death of a younger brother, and a local story of Lincoln nearly drowning. At Sinking Spring, a 1911 memorial building designed by John Russell Pope turned the birthplace into a national shrine through symbolic architecture and a symbolic cabin rather than the original. Together the two farms unite Lincoln’s childhood setting with the later making of his public memory.