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• Cumberland Gap National Historic Park
US 25E South
Middlesboro, KY 40965
(606) 248-2817
At this first gateway to the West, set in the southern Appalachian Mountains, include the Henslev Settlement, Gap Cave and Wilderness Road.
• Farmington Historic Home
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3033 Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY 40205
(502) 452-9920
Abraham Lincoln once spent three weeks at this 14-room Federal-style home, completed in 1816, on a 19th-century hemp plantation.
• Fort Boonesborough State Park
4375 Boonesborough Road
Richmond, KY 40475
(859) 527-3131
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Events here include living history weekends and re-enactments of the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough.
•Historic Locust Grove
561 Blankenbaker Lane
Louisville, KY 40207
(502) 897-9845
Louisville founder George Rogers Clark spent the last nine years of his life in the Georgian mansion on his sister’s farm.
• Kentucky Horse Park
4089 Iron Works Parkway
Lexington, KY 40511
(859) 233-4303
In the center of Thoroughbred Country, this workind horse farm showcases up to 50 breeds Champions and Carriage Horse Barn.
• Old Fort Harrod State Park
100 S. College St.
Harrodsburg, KY 40330
(859) 734-3314
See replicas of the homes of legends such as Daniel Boone and Ann McGinty (who brought the first spinning wheel to Kentucky), and the church in which Abraham Lincoln’s parents married.
• Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
501 Lexington Road
Harrodsburg, KY 40330
(800) 734-5611
<www.shakervillageky.org> Founded in 1805, this is America’s largest restored Shaker community. Stay in one of 14 original buildings, take tours with historic interpreters, and dine on goods from the garden.
• Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site
94 Green St.
Wickliffe, KY 42087
(270) 335-3681
Explore prehistoric Mississippian Indian culture at this archeological site with three excavated mounds.
From the March 2008 Family Tree Magazine
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