"My earliest recollection is of the Knob Creek place,�1 Abraham Lincoln once said. The boyhood home of Lincoln is situated on what was a prominent traveling route at the time. Slave dealers who used this route would sometimes stay overnight with their cargo; thus began Lincoln’s hatred of slavery at an early age. The cabin was an old homestead surrounded by rolling hills with a creek nearby where Lincoln fished.  1 National Park Service, “Abraham Lincoln’s Boyhood Home at Knob Creek,� Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, http://www.nps.gov/abli/planyourvisit/boyhood-home.htm (accessed December 21, 2007).http://www.nps.gov/abli/planyourvisit/boyhood-home.htmhttp://www.nps.gov/abli/planyourvisit/boyhood-home.htmshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1
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