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Title
First Lincoln Memorial - Kentucky
Artist
Debra Martz
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
First Lincoln Memorial - Kentucky by Debra Martz
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When making the drive across the USA to visit family, it is mostly Interstate driving in order to make good time. But I often tire of that and start searching for a reason to leave the Interstate. My google search of our route between Louisville, KY and Nashville, TN presented me with the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site!! So we left I-65 and 15 miles later we were there...not too far out of the way at all. Of course we arrived in the rain but that was okay as it was light enough to still get out with umbrellas.
This memorial was built between 1909 and 1911 through donations by approximately 100,000 Americans amounting to nearly $350,000. The money was raised through a fund raiser by the Lincoln Farm Association. In 1916 the Memorial was donated to to the Federal government, which established the Abraham Lincoln National Park on July 17, 1916.
Architect John Russell Pope's design of the building included many symbolisms related to Abraham Lincoln, including fifty-six steps leading up to the building to represent the fifty-six years of Lincoln's life. Sixteen windows in the building and sixteen rosettes on the interior ceiling are there to remind visitors that Lincoln was the sixteenth president. The building was designed specifically to house the "symbolic" birth cabin of Abraham Lincoln on the site of Lincoln's birth. "Symbolic" birth cabin because what was once thought to be the reconstructed Lincoln log cabin, today, historians recognize that the former claim was essentially inaccurate.
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December 13th, 2015
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Enid, OK - United States
Judy Vincent, Thank you very much for the feature in your Fine Art America group, USA PHotographers!
Southlake, TX - United States
Excellent find and capture! It is always interesting what one can find when the seek a less traveled path...
Enid, OK - United States
Thank you all very much for your comments, like and/or faves! I appreciate each and every one! ~♥~
Corpus Christi, TX - United States
Thank you all very much for your comments, like and/or faves! I appreciate each and every one! ~♥~
Corpus Christi, TX - United States
Thanks to all of you for the wonderful comments, likes and faves!
Monrovia, MD - United States
Debra what a wonderful capture, this is the first time I've seen this Memorial and I like it... L/F
Debra Martz replied:
I didn't know about it either until I read online just before the exit from the interstate.
Byron Bay, NS - Australia
Oooh I really like this, love the lines on the staircase leading you to the memorial Debra!
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