Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, Hodgenville, Kentucky : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, Hodgenville, Kentucky / Ken Lund
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park preserves two separate farm sites in LaRue County, Kentucky where Abraham Lincoln was born and lived until the age of seven. He was born at the Sinking Spring site south of Hodgenville and remained there until the family moved to the Knob Creek Farm northeast of Hodgenville when he was two years old, remaining there until he was seven years old. The Sinking Spring site is the location of the park visitors center.In the fall of 1808, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln settled on Sinking Spring Farm. Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born there in a one-room log cabin. Today this site bears the address of 2995 Lincoln Farm Road, Hodgenville, Kentucky. A cabin, symbolic of the one in which Lincoln was born, is preserved within a 1911, memorial building at the site.A Beaux-Arts neo-classical Memorial Building was designed by John Russell Pope for the birthplace site. In 1909 the cornerstone was laid by President Theodore Roosevelt and the building was dedicated in 1911 by President William Howard Taft. Almost a hundred years after Thomas Lincoln moved from Sinking Spring Farm, a similar log cabin was placed inside the Memorial Building. The Memorial Building features 16 windows, 16 rosettes on the ceiling, and 16 fence poles, representing Lincoln's being the 16th president. The 56 steps leading up to the building entrance represent his age at his death.The original log cabin that Lincoln was reputed to have been born in was dismantled sometime before 1865. Local tradition held that some of the logs from the cabin were used in construction of a nearby house. New York businessman A.W. Dennett purchased the Lincoln farm in 1894 and used the logs from this house to construct a cabin similar in appearance to the original cabin where Lincoln was born. Today, historians recognize that the former claim that these logs were from Lincoln's birth cabin was essentially inaccurate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_Birthplace_National...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_... |
| 撮影日 | 2006-02-06 06:14:35 |
| 撮影者 | Ken Lund , Reno, Nevada, USA |
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| 撮影地 | Boundary Oak, Kentucky, United States 地図 |
| カメラ | Canon PowerShot A70 , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.6 |
| 焦点距離 | 7692.307692 dpi |