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LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE AND BOYHOOD HOME: 2995 Lincoln Farm Road, Hodgenville, Ky., www.nps.gov/abli or (270) 358-3137. Located about 45 minutes from Louisville airport. The Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek is a few miles from the Lincoln Birthplace. Also in Hodgenville is the Lincoln Museum, 66 Lincoln Square, Hodgenville, www.lincolnmuseum-ky.org or (270) 358-3163.

CAMP NELSON: 6614 Danville Pike, Nicholasville, Ky., www.campnelson.org or (859) 881-5716. Camp Nelson was a recruitment camp for black soldiers in the Civil War and was later a designated cemetery for Union dead.

FARMINGTON HISTORIC PLANTATION: 3033 Bardstown Road, Louisville; www.historichomes.org/farmington or (502) 452-9920. Home of Lincoln’s best friend Joshua Speed.

HARDIN COUNTY MUSEUM: 201 W. Dixie Ave., Elizabethtown, Ky.; www.hardinkyhistory.org or (270) 763-8339. Exhibit, “Abraham Lincoln, Family and Friends.”

LINCOLN HOMESTEAD STATE PARK: 5079 Lincoln Park Road, Springfield, Ky.; parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/lh or (859) 336-7461. Site include homes where members of Lincoln’s family lived and related artifacts and buildings.

KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 100 W. Broadway, Frankfort, Ky., history.ky.gov or (502) 564-1792. Lincoln artifacts on display. Major exhibition, “Beyond the Log Cabin: Kentucky’s Abraham Lincoln,” opens Oct. 20.

MARY TODD LINCOLN HOUSE: 578 W. Main St., Lincoln, Ky.; www.mtlhouse.org or (859) 233-9999. Childhood home of Lincoln’s wife.

WHITE HALL STATE HISTORIC SITE: 500 White Hall Shrine Road, Richmond, Ky.; parks.ky.gov/findparks/histparks/wh or (859) 623-9178. Home of Cassius Marcellus Clay, a prominent abolitionist, and later Lincoln’s ambassador to Russia.

ASHLAND: 120 Sycamore Road, Lexington, Ky.; www.henryclay.org or (859) 266-8581. Estate of Henry Clay, influential 19th century Kentucky senator admired by Lincoln, and whose family was close to Mary Todd Lincoln’s family.

JEFFERSON DAVIS STATE HISTORIC SITE: Highway 68 East, Fairview, Ky.; parks.ky.gov/findparks/histparks/jd or (270) 889-6100. Obelisk monument at the site of Davis’ birthplace.

BEAUVOIR, THE JEFFERSON DAVIS HOME: 2244 Beach Blvd., Biloxi, Miss.; www.beauvoir.org or (228) 388-4400.

JEFFERSON DAVIS MEMORIAL STATE HISTORIC SITE: 338 Jeff Davis Park Road, Fitzgerald, Ga., near Irwinville; www.gastateparks.org/info/jeffd or (229) 831-2335. Museum and trail mark site where Davis was taken prisoner during Civil War by Union troops.