Excerpt from Souvenir of Lincoln National Park, Hodgenville, Kentucky The descriptions which accompany the different views serve as brief historical sketches and attempt to give the visitor to the park such information as will allow him to appreciate to a greater extent the many interesting places. The history of the farm is traced from the time that a patent was granted by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1786, until it was accepted as a National Park by the -united States Government in 1916. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.