Article: Lincoln logs in with humble Kentucky past.(Travel)

Byline: Stacy Lytwyn Maxwell (SPECIAL TO THE HERALD)

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. - Travelers into history often follow the presidential trail to George Washington's Virginia, including Mount Vernon. Generations also have retraced Abraham Lincoln's famed Indiana and Illinois travels.

But there is a lesser-known historical excursion related to the 16th president - tracing Lincoln's boyhood roots in Northern Kentucky.

A good place to learn about Lincoln's formative first eight years is the Elizabethtown Tourism & Convention Bureau here, 44 miles south of Louisville and 131 miles north of Nashville.

"E'town," as the locals call it, is most famous ...

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