The strange story of Lincoln's cabins

In Kentucky you can visit the cabin where Honest Abe grew up … or is it? Contributor Brook Silva-Braga investigates the unusual tale of log cabins at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park in Hodgenville, Ky.
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  • @grimmace9081
    @grimmace90813 жыл бұрын

    "The day I fear most is the day idiots quote me on the internet for things I never said" - Abraham Lincoln

  • @benvasilinda9729
    @benvasilinda97294 жыл бұрын

    The fact those cabins still exist is a story in itself.

  • @brodi81

    @brodi81

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, sort of. So these cabins do weather in time and have to be replaced by new logs and a different form than the mud/hay/dung mixture they used to do. They are all across Indiana (where I live) and most are "original" but modernized, if you will.

  • @ispartacus1337

    @ispartacus1337

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@brodi81 ship of theseus scenario

  • @thepotato405

    @thepotato405

    4 жыл бұрын

    You can go out near sewanee Tennessee and find some cabins believe it or not with some wood still there and chimneys dating back to pre civil war era out in the woods. Theres a couple YT videos of people finding these cabins.. it's a local rumor that john wilkes booth made his way down here and preformed at local theatres.. theres descendants over 90 years old who swear to this day john wilkes booth his out there and told their family he was john wilkes booth

  • @stephencoldbear

    @stephencoldbear

    4 жыл бұрын

    What they didn't consider is that over time as the cabin gets damaged, the damaged parts have to be repaired. If over the decades the logs were replaced one at a time as they deteriorated, is it still Lincoln's cabin? And did they test only one log of each cabin? If they'd tested multiple logs, would they have found different years for each?

  • @ispartacus1337

    @ispartacus1337

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@stephencoldbear you really think these scientists didn't think about that? Pretty sure they were experts on the subject and that would have been the most basic mistake they could have possibly made. Theseus's ship is a real concept. Check it out.

  • @andyginterblues2961
    @andyginterblues29613 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of that joke: "Abraham Lincoln was born in a cabin that he built with his own hands".

  • @hijodelaisla275

    @hijodelaisla275

    3 жыл бұрын

    I never tire of that joke.

  • @williamm374
    @williamm3744 жыл бұрын

    This doesn't change the amazing fact that Lincoln was born in a log cabin built with his own hands.

  • @billiezotos9411

    @billiezotos9411

    4 жыл бұрын

    William M joke! Right? Lol how could a new baby build the Log Cabin he was born in? When I was in school about ‘1945, we were taught that Abe Lincoln was born in a Log Cabin that only had three sides! I thought it meant a cabin with three sides, it didn’t seem likely that they meant one side was never put on it, it seemed to us that it was sort of a triangle shaped building! Of course, now that I’m older, I see it as an unfinished building, with only three sides finished! Lol I now realize that it just wasn’t completed. Perhaps what may have happened, when he was older, he may have put the fourth side on the building, therefore, the confusion that he built the house he was born in.

  • @williamm374

    @williamm374

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@billiezotos9411 It's an old joke going back decades, from a fictional list of student answers in quizzes. Another was "Ben Franklin died in 1790 and he's still dead."

  • @jkinzel5979

    @jkinzel5979

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @smithmsa

    @smithmsa

    4 жыл бұрын

    @okana2up dude, it's obviously a joke.

  • @genitabrown2207

    @genitabrown2207

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sooooo Lincoln built this cabin as soon as he was born out the womb?!?! Wow!!! Very special baby!

  • @LVang152
    @LVang1523 жыл бұрын

    The lady ranger has a very good point. It’s the man and his story that make people come for a visit.

  • @justachannel9379
    @justachannel93796 жыл бұрын

    If the South had won that war, Southern kids would have been able to play with Davis Logs.

  • @garrettcooke5566

    @garrettcooke5566

    6 жыл бұрын

    justachannel i dont get it?

  • @justachannel9379

    @justachannel9379

    6 жыл бұрын

    Garett cooke Sorry, I thought your reply was to something else that I could not make much more clear. Yes. Lincoln Logs. And, yes, they do still sell them www.walmart.com/tp/lincoln-logs. (But I think they're a little different than when I was a kid.)

  • @70stunes71

    @70stunes71

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lmao hahahahahaha exactly!!!!!

  • @carolyn9andthecats653

    @carolyn9andthecats653

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mamaroza22 hey do....but now include plastic windows, door n roof! But I found a full wood log cabin build set @ a bargain outlet stores "ollie's".....best to carve your own

  • @terrycrowley3904

    @terrycrowley3904

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@garrettcooke5566 are you serious?

  • @linengray
    @linengray6 жыл бұрын

    I feel cheated. I visited his memorial in Hodgenville, KY. believing that was his cabin. I want my money back. Oh wait it cost nothing.

  • @oldmanriverrimington3442

    @oldmanriverrimington3442

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure I visited one in Illinois. We were duped!! I smell a class action lawsuit! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

  • @aliali-ce3yf

    @aliali-ce3yf

    4 жыл бұрын

    it cost you some gas money, and it was wasted time

  • @zebfox011

    @zebfox011

    4 жыл бұрын

    @markj6700 pretty arrogant of you to claim religion is fake. I'm not a religious person myself but have you any proof of your claims? And by the way the ark and flood story is rooted in historical fact and not just in the biblical story.

  • @zebfox011

    @zebfox011

    4 жыл бұрын

    @markj6700 first let me say the ark in Kentucky never claims to be the real ark as the Titanic in Branson Missouri or gatlinburg tn isn't either real. Next multiple religions may claim to be the only true religion yet they all share the same common denominator so to speak. You are only showing that you are arrogant and uneducated. You don't have to be religious to have intelligence so try to get some.

  • @zebfox011

    @zebfox011

    4 жыл бұрын

    @markj6700 and by the way... Christianity, Judaism, Islam and even Babylonian history as well as other ancient societies have stories of the great flood including the epic of Gilgamesh. Again pick up a book sometime.

  • @elizabethredmond5517
    @elizabethredmond55173 жыл бұрын

    You don't hear anyone mentioning that he moved to Indiana when he was 7. His boyhood home and his legacy are really spread across Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois - it's not something one small town with a random cabin can claim.

  • @gregcollins3404
    @gregcollins34045 жыл бұрын

    When I visited the site of Lincoln's boyhood home in Indiana, I walked the ~200 yard trail from the cabin to their water well. May not be the original cabin, but the site itself is theirs for sure. You can figure he walked that trail many, many times fetching water and you get quite a feeling that you are walking in his footsteps among quite the same forest trail he did.

  • @sharonraizor2839

    @sharonraizor2839

    4 жыл бұрын

    @McKittrick Hyatt What is interesting about this story is that I grew up near there and of course we took school trips to both Lincoln sites way too many times. They never once said these were the original cabins. They always said they came from the same time frame.

  • @jacquelinepatterson4260

    @jacquelinepatterson4260

    4 жыл бұрын

    Went there to Lincoln's boyhood home in Indiana. Gives one pause to think of how Americans lived in those days. It is great to experience the heritage of our country.

  • @brocboehman4060

    @brocboehman4060

    4 жыл бұрын

    McKittrick Hyatt I used live right by their

  • @JudyJudyJudy44

    @JudyJudyJudy44

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too Greg. We used to live near there and visited that park several times.

  • @bobduato4404
    @bobduato44044 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how much money that town has lost since this video

  • @christienelson1437

    @christienelson1437

    4 жыл бұрын

    zaq The 1861 cabins were still the type of cabin Lincoln was born and lived in.They allow people to see how humble his beings were in three D. Much better than virtual reality and a modern copy.

  • @samuelrs5138

    @samuelrs5138

    4 жыл бұрын

    They've probably gained visitors since there's other interesting things to see there and it's still his birthplace. You and hundreds of thousands of other people who saw this wouldn't have went there because you didn't know of it's existence but I bet there's some people who will go because they found out about it by watching this.

  • @bobduato4404

    @bobduato4404

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@samuelrs5138 nah

  • @samuelrs5138

    @samuelrs5138

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bobduato4404 I could see if this was the only attraction there. But it's still the birthplace and has museums about Lincoln and things like that. I bet there's people in Kentucky who watched this who didn't know about it and decided to go there on a Saturday or Sunday to check it out. How many people could there possibly be that were already planning to go, saw this, and canceled their plans?

  • @maparisfamilyadventures2174

    @maparisfamilyadventures2174

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@samuelrs5138 LOL TRUE!

  • @1LSWilliam
    @1LSWilliam4 жыл бұрын

    Lincoln would have liked this result, I think, with his incredibly wry sense of humor and legendary modesty. Will there ever be another like him?

  • @ronaldcammarata3422
    @ronaldcammarata34224 жыл бұрын

    I had Lincoln Logs when I was a kid. And I made many Lincoln log cabins. Maybe I should have donated one of them to the Parks Service.

  • @JMARTIN1947

    @JMARTIN1947

    4 жыл бұрын

    I went to the chili cook-off in Lincoln, Nebraska, then dropped a hefty log. There’s a Lincoln Log story for you.

  • @bennyshaversmusic590
    @bennyshaversmusic5904 жыл бұрын

    My dad had a picture of my grandpa pointing at the gas station Abraham Lincoln worked at. He also owned one of Lincoln's old radios.

  • @notsureiL

    @notsureiL

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol my great great grandad saw Lincolns first tweets as president. They sadly shut down his account ages ago.

  • @bennyshaversmusic590

    @bennyshaversmusic590

    3 жыл бұрын

    @kbogle798 prove it!

  • @bennyshaversmusic590

    @bennyshaversmusic590

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@notsureiL Yeah I read about that in social studies in middle school.

  • @quentindehaan3010

    @quentindehaan3010

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now that's great comedy 🤣 you can't teach that.

  • @furmomma
    @furmomma5 жыл бұрын

    Travel to Antioch, WV and you will discover Abraham Lincoln's Mothers Birth Place and Cabin and also will see that Lincoln himself visited this cabin and signed it!

  • @windrider65

    @windrider65

    4 жыл бұрын

    In Tama County Iowa, between Tama and Garwin, Lincoln had a farm. There is a historical marker on the property. No cabin or anything else left, just a marker.

  • @CreatorCade

    @CreatorCade

    4 жыл бұрын

    That’s a long drive to the eastern panhandle for me just to see a log cabin.

  • @ellagrace4361

    @ellagrace4361

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mind blowing to think that she was born in what was Virginia back then!

  • @almappes3396
    @almappes33964 жыл бұрын

    His original cabin was found in another dimension on the Planet Quepticon

  • @swavy3029

    @swavy3029

    4 жыл бұрын

    boring pup how do you know

  • @almappes3396

    @almappes3396

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@swavy3029 because I live in his hat here

  • @rbrewer6826
    @rbrewer68266 жыл бұрын

    Born in KY, moved to IN, then IL. Have an ancestor born near him in KY, then he moved to IL near where Lincoln was. Both served together in 2 IL Militia units in the Blackhawk war in 1832 (my ancestor was a Sgt in one and a Lt in the other, Lincoln was a Pvt in both). His sister married Abner Ellis in New Salem, friend of Lincoln's law partner, Herndon. My ancestor moved to TX in 1834 and fought in TX Rev at Siege of Bexar in 1835. Wrote is brother in 1838 to come to TX, land is good and "Indians has not killed me yet".City of Georgetown TX and Glasscock County named for him.

  • @redjirachi1

    @redjirachi1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Both Lincoln and Davis served in it under Old Rough and Ready. Davis became his son-in-law.

  • @lastritt
    @lastritt5 жыл бұрын

    My 2nd cousin, Mary Lavey Yoder gave this statement about the Lincoln cabin. "John Oliver Lavey & Anna M. Essex Lavey lived in the log cabin on the hill behind the Boyhood Home of Lincoln. In 1933, the cabin was re-constructed at the Boyhood Home site from the logs of the cabin where the Laveys lived. Frank Howard, who owned the Boyhood Home, told me so but when I was there several years ago".

  • @Markbeb3

    @Markbeb3

    4 жыл бұрын

    Howard another crook lawyer also like Abe.

  • @TheReckoningBeginsToday
    @TheReckoningBeginsToday4 жыл бұрын

    My great, great, great grandfather has passed down through our family, Abe Lincoln’s first Blackberry.

  • @jaymeskelly3831
    @jaymeskelly38314 жыл бұрын

    Lincoln did actually live in Hogenville and on the land of the cabin from 1861. That is cool enough for me.

  • @jaynecobb5774
    @jaynecobb57744 жыл бұрын

    Hats off to the amazing Rangers. They are so great anywhere you visit. They are a national treasure for sure.

  • @SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand

    @SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand

    3 жыл бұрын

    This one thoo

  • @jamesmurray8558

    @jamesmurray8558

    2 жыл бұрын

    We are an amazing brotherhood where e ever we serve.North Cascades National Park.Mt.St.Helens.

  • @gabrielas3793
    @gabrielas37934 жыл бұрын

    Idk why it would matter? Lol He was born, and left a legacy behind. Everyone has a birthplace, but not everyone leaves such a big legacy.

  • @OdditiesandRarities
    @OdditiesandRarities4 жыл бұрын

    Is it possible that parts of the cabins were repaired over the years with new logs and that they tested the newer repair logs? In that case the cabins could still be original?

  • @rc3291

    @rc3291

    4 жыл бұрын

    Probably logs were replaced and changed when it was originally moved. Maybe even parts of several cabins.

  • @MrPAULONEAL

    @MrPAULONEAL

    4 жыл бұрын

    What happens after all the original logs are replaced?

  • @oldcountryman2795

    @oldcountryman2795

    3 жыл бұрын

    No

  • @benvasilinda9729

    @benvasilinda9729

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought the same thing.

  • @Random3716

    @Random3716

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Cabin of Theseus

  • @mattjones5987
    @mattjones59875 жыл бұрын

    Wow Ranger Natalie is a doll.

  • @peggooo

    @peggooo

    4 жыл бұрын

    Matt Jones a natural beauty. a very wholesome look.

  • @davidallen346
    @davidallen3466 ай бұрын

    Pretty freaking awesome Lincoln's cabin

  • @MuddyBubby
    @MuddyBubby3 жыл бұрын

    We had "Lincoln's cabin" in our hometown also, I assume they're all over Kentucky.

  • @pinkushatejar

    @pinkushatejar

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nice pfp

  • @MuddyBubby

    @MuddyBubby

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pinkushatejar based

  • @lisagregg1387
    @lisagregg1387 Жыл бұрын

    I have to agree Hodgenville is still worth a visit because it is Lincoln's birth place. If you like Lincoln there's also a Lincoln Library and museum in Harrogate Tennessee that might be worth a visit as well.

  • @whipchick90
    @whipchick904 жыл бұрын

    My Dad loved Lincoln. My brother's middle name is Lincoln!

  • @discobikerAndRosie

    @discobikerAndRosie

    4 жыл бұрын

    Peanutbutterbutterfly Awesome! I'm a direct descendant. Abe was my cousin.

  • @whipchick90

    @whipchick90

    4 жыл бұрын

    Disco Biker yeah right lol.

  • @ripdiptatterchip3851
    @ripdiptatterchip38514 жыл бұрын

    guess they didn’t learn anything from honest abe

  • @smithperformanceracing5848
    @smithperformanceracing58484 жыл бұрын

    Go to Farmington Illinois south of Charleston Illinois you will find Lincoln's father and step mom's land with cabins on it. His father's grave is few miles away at old church. Check it out. I take my kid's there all the time and have BBQs.

  • @rriveter9927

    @rriveter9927

    4 жыл бұрын

    I have visited there also, the cabins are not the originals, but replicas of the period. The barn is period, found in southern IL and moved to the farm. The new modern museum is an unexpected treasure that I happened upon a few years ago, and went back later that year for Harvest Frolic. There are several names for that style of cabins joined together - dog-leg and saddlebag. (Plus one more I can't recall)

  • @bethk3773

    @bethk3773

    3 жыл бұрын

    You gave more and better info than the videos.

  • @smithperformanceracing5848

    @smithperformanceracing5848

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bethk3773 Lincoln's father baried three miles west in old church of there properly.

  • @kjamison5951
    @kjamison59514 жыл бұрын

    Are these cabins made from Lincoln Logs?

  • @manueladarazsdi9675

    @manueladarazsdi9675

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nice to see a joke that is not mean-spirited.

  • @jaiboi6986
    @jaiboi69864 жыл бұрын

    Although it be awesome to see where he lived, slept, and grew up. Other than that I’m always fascinated by history, I’ll would still visit the area

  • @stephencoldbear
    @stephencoldbear4 жыл бұрын

    What they didn't consider is that over time as the cabin gets damaged, the damaged parts have to be repaired. If over the decades the logs were replaced one at a time as they deteriorated, is it still Lincoln's cabin?

  • @dereklucero5785
    @dereklucero57858 ай бұрын

    Even if the cabin isn’t legit, people are still seeking out Abe’s legacy 160+ years later, which is pretty epic😁👍🇺🇸

  • @make.one.studio
    @make.one.studio4 жыл бұрын

    Wow I’m learning about him at school!

  • @opera93
    @opera933 жыл бұрын

    Thanks.... it is the Story and Journey thru Lincoln’s Life: & People.. these, and other similar/possible related, Artifacts can help focus: etc.

  • @richardburchett
    @richardburchett Жыл бұрын

    I understand you can count the rings to determine how old a log was when it was cut, but how are they able to tell specifically what year it was?

  • @76TomD
    @76TomD3 жыл бұрын

    If you look at his house in Springfield and use these cabins as examples of the types of cabins he lived in, the massive contrast between the two give insight as to the changes in his life as well as to lifestyles of the time.

  • @carmarasmussen8118

    @carmarasmussen8118

    Ай бұрын

    I have visited both of those historical sites and you are absolutely correct. The Springfield home is beautiful! I just love the history of our country. Also been to Mt. Vernon and The Hermitage in Nashville. Monticello is next on our list!

  • @johnnyhawkins43
    @johnnyhawkins434 жыл бұрын

    I was born not too far from Lincoln park and have been there many times I take my kids and their kids to see it!!!!!!

  • @Ripplesinthewaters
    @Ripplesinthewaters3 жыл бұрын

    Despite the cabins not being Abe’s, he was still born there and he lived there until he was 7.

  • @Andrew-ci9xv
    @Andrew-ci9xv Жыл бұрын

    My grandmother lived in a small house in logansport Indiana , years after they moved . The town found out the house was an actual old 1700’s frontier log cabin that was encased . They stripped the modern parts off it and it stands still I believe in its log cabin “look”

  • @jamieturnage4574
    @jamieturnage45744 жыл бұрын

    he was one of our greatest presidents

  • @itsmeagain8009

    @itsmeagain8009

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. Its my husband great great uncle. We too have a cabin now called the Lincoln cabin in Fresno

  • @jamieturnage4574

    @jamieturnage4574

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@itsmeagain8009 im from the south but i think lincoln was a great president

  • @easypaintingsandcraftproje6595
    @easypaintingsandcraftproje65956 жыл бұрын

    That was nice.

  • @SpiralBreeze
    @SpiralBreeze6 жыл бұрын

    Why is it that houses from the 1600's in New England are so much better than homes from the 1800's?

  • @georgehogart461

    @georgehogart461

    6 жыл бұрын

    Illinois and the surroundings were frontier land. East of the Appalachians had been settled for a couple hundred years. At the time Lincoln came to Illinois, 1830, the area was still Indian land, hence Indiana.

  • @Jichael.mackson
    @Jichael.mackson4 жыл бұрын

    There is another cabin claimed as Lincoln’s here in Cumberland MD

  • @marylawson6060
    @marylawson60604 жыл бұрын

    Abe Lincoln was born in Kentucky period.

  • @VintageRose75

    @VintageRose75

    4 жыл бұрын

    Adolf Hitler Sure...but that is not what she said. He was BORN in Kentucky.

  • @marylawson6060

    @marylawson6060

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Adolf Hitler What did Kentucky ever do to you?

  • @VintageRose75

    @VintageRose75

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mary Lawson I know, right?! Seriously!? Anyone who would purposely choose Hitler as their screen name and profile pic has something very wrong with them.

  • @marylawson6060

    @marylawson6060

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@VintageRose75 Right. I almost addressed that myself but chose not to thinking somebody else would see the obvious. Have a good one.

  • @VintageRose75

    @VintageRose75

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mary Lawson Yeah, it is pretty obvious!! 😉 Maybe something really bad happened to him in Kentucky. It doesn't mean that represents the whole state. 😌

  • @liamsalzman2925
    @liamsalzman29254 жыл бұрын

    When she trips up saying “that’s the story you can sell” kinda suspect

  • @khappy1286

    @khappy1286

    4 жыл бұрын

    She didnt trip up. She said that purposefully.

  • @liamsalzman2925

    @liamsalzman2925

    4 жыл бұрын

    K Happy someone’s mad that Lincoln didn’t live there

  • @SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand

    @SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@liamsalzman2925 She literally reiterated that, are you stupid?

  • @TM-ro7lh
    @TM-ro7lh2 жыл бұрын

    My family were some of the earliest European settlers in that area and owned this land at one point. It’s a beautiful area.

  • @georgehogart461
    @georgehogart4616 жыл бұрын

    Most of if not all of Lincoln's childhood and adulthood log cabins are long gone. All the tourist areas that have a log cabin pertaining to Lincoln are replicas. Why? Because of the age, material and midwest weather. Wood rots and in those days there was no thought of preservation, just survival. I know the first cabin he erected in Macon Co. Illinois was dismantled in the 1870's and shipped to the Chicago area never to be seen again. The next cabin in New Salem and store are replicas and His step Mother's log cabin in Coles Co. Il is also a replica. The only court house he practiced in that was a log cabin is in a museum park in Decatur Il. and is also a replica but they do have an original log from it in the inside. That courthouse was rebuilt so many times that no one can say if it has any of the original structure. The cabins in Kentucky and Indiana are also replicas.

  • @annalisette5897

    @annalisette5897

    6 жыл бұрын

    Even if those cabins are replicas, they show how difficult life was in those days. Imagine living in one of those cabins today without any modern conveniences, running water, a bathroom, only wood heat, only cooking in a fireplace.... Much can be learned even from replicas.

  • @jshepard152

    @jshepard152

    4 жыл бұрын

    Southern Kentucky is not in the Midwest.

  • @peachypeppa
    @peachypeppa4 жыл бұрын

    So that's why they're called Lincoln Logs and not Davis Logs

  • @rdjones451
    @rdjones4514 жыл бұрын

    Counting the rings in a log can only tell you how old the tree was when it was cut. They can not tell you what year the tree was cut. How does that work, really????

  • @benjaminharold5154

    @benjaminharold5154

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was wondering the same thing. I think they keep records of tree rings from old trees that we know when and where cut. Then they look for certain " distinct" markings, like years of drought and so on.

  • @lloydpergande3286

    @lloydpergande3286

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sorry, I replied the same.

  • @ronaldcammarata3422

    @ronaldcammarata3422

    4 жыл бұрын

    But the tree could not have been used to build a cabin on a date before the tree was cut. See?

  • @benjaminharold5154

    @benjaminharold5154

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ronaldcammarata3422 Right. But we mean... How do they know when it was cut? I can have cross cut and know how long the tree lived , but it may have been cut 5 years ago or 100 years ago. Just wondering how they know about when it was cut. It's not that I don't think they know, just wondering how. I'm guessing they have certain common "markers'' for specific years in different locations.

  • @jacoblonger3529

    @jacoblonger3529

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@benjaminharold5154 Every year a trees ring is different.It holds evidence of things that happend in its surroundings.Like a fire . So if they took a log from a building that they knew was cut and built on a certain year they would match.

  • @leemiddleton6196
    @leemiddleton61962 жыл бұрын

    Tell the park ranger to go all the way to Ravens fork NC, for the genesis of Lincoln

  • @hunterknobelcatholicknight3006
    @hunterknobelcatholicknight3006 Жыл бұрын

    Sad to know that the log cabin is long gone

  • @michaelfosnaught2238
    @michaelfosnaught22384 жыл бұрын

    That’s such a ridiculous test. So they know the age of the tree but how do that tell them when it was cut down? The tree would have stopped showing age rings once it was cut. Also how do they know some of the logs weren’t replaced. I hope they don’t do that will our structures in the future because we renovate pretty frequently

  • @oldcountryman2795

    @oldcountryman2795

    3 жыл бұрын

    You either didn’t watch or couldn’t understand the video.

  • @tomy5868
    @tomy58684 жыл бұрын

    wow...what a strange story.

  • @pcno2832
    @pcno28324 жыл бұрын

    I can see the number of rings showing the age of the tree when it was cut, but how do they know when the tree was planted ?

  • @scbmarmstrong

    @scbmarmstrong

    4 жыл бұрын

    They don't they try to match the rings with established dated trees. (see 3:40) I had the same question. I "think" this is the answer.

  • @oldcountryman2795

    @oldcountryman2795

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pay attention to the part of the video where they clearly explain how they do that.

  • @easy56wedge
    @easy56wedge2 жыл бұрын

    Honest Abe may not have lied, but marketers are known for it!

  • @wdh47211
    @wdh472116 жыл бұрын

    That ranger girl is cute.....

  • @creamcityribbon7703

    @creamcityribbon7703

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wayne Harris I believe she is a woman not a girl.

  • @Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence

    @Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence

    6 жыл бұрын

    And you're a nerd. Good for you.

  • @danstrayer111

    @danstrayer111

    5 жыл бұрын

    is your girlfriend a girl?

  • @mrFalconlem

    @mrFalconlem

    5 жыл бұрын

    Too nerdy for you, she likes real wood.

  • @mikethomas4054

    @mikethomas4054

    4 жыл бұрын

    She might like carpet

  • @frannieladner4605
    @frannieladner46054 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately tree aging is no a precise science.

  • @ezrabrooks12

    @ezrabrooks12

    4 жыл бұрын

    Frannie//// I WOULDN'T TRUST THIS GUY'S WAY OF DOING THINGS!!!!! YOU NEED THE WHOLE TREE SAMPLE TO COUNT THE RINGS!!!! THESE LOGS HAVE BEEN SAWED DOWN TO SIZE/SQUARED OFF!!!! THIS GUY KNOWS HOW TO PLAY THE GOVERNMENT GRANT SYSTEM. I'M SURE THAT HE'S LIVING WELL OFF OF HIS BOGUS RESEARCH!!!!!!

  • @trimmoos

    @trimmoos

    4 жыл бұрын

    It actually does work. A technique called crossdating is used to determine when an older tree lived and died. www2.humboldt.edu/natmus/redwoods/redwood-secret/index.html A ranger explained it to me when I was at the ancient bristlecone pine forest in the white mountains of California. Many trees there are over 4,000 years old and they know when core sampled ones died.

  • @c.mckenzie2155
    @c.mckenzie21553 жыл бұрын

    I am not certain that matters. It does not negate that he was a great man and great president. There is a cabin in KY built by my great-great grandfather right after the civil war. It is on the list of historical places and sits in Paintsville, KY. Love Lincoln....

  • @tiamoore2861
    @tiamoore28616 жыл бұрын

    Well, the cabins are still really really old.

  • @mikewilliams258

    @mikewilliams258

    5 жыл бұрын

    Tia Moore I'm from the UK and I have to tell you there isn't a single building in America that's really, really old.

  • @VintageRose75

    @VintageRose75

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mike Williams Just because you live in the UK and buildings are much older, doesn't mean Americans can't consider 300-400 year old buildings really, really old.

  • @anthonyc4138

    @anthonyc4138

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@VintageRose75 yep

  • @cefcat5733
    @cefcat57333 жыл бұрын

    Other States have cabins where he visited and they also have a plaque on them saying, 'Lincoln slept here.'

  • @craigslistrro709
    @craigslistrro7094 жыл бұрын

    Mans persistent search for absolute truth is why we can never be fulfilled.

  • 4 жыл бұрын

    So exciting it's a snoozfest.

  • @minnowpd
    @minnowpd4 жыл бұрын

    That park ranger gal is very good looking.

  • @gemista
    @gemista4 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: the logs were intermediately stored in College Point, NY before they were reassembled.

  • @mybusinessonly1557

    @mybusinessonly1557

    4 жыл бұрын

    And the original Lincoln Logs were stolen by Yankee Scalawags being selfish and not allowing them to return to Kentucky. Probably being oogled by some Yankees right now in Michigan or some other Yankee stronghold. Lol

  • @gotzBearhugz
    @gotzBearhugz4 жыл бұрын

    A place that Lincoln did sleep (I'm pretty sure) was White Hall Historic Home in Richmond, KY

  • @historyman1616
    @historyman16164 жыл бұрын

    Pt Barnum had rented it and it caught fire sadly

  • @petenielsen4119
    @petenielsen41194 жыл бұрын

    They would need to test every log not just a couple

  • @Malepical

    @Malepical

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well.. seeing as time travel wasn't possible at the time.. I doubt they could've gotten ahold of a log from decades in the future to build the cabin so... There's that..

  • @duaneayers6117
    @duaneayers61174 жыл бұрын

    President Lincoln might of been born in the state of Kentucky but President Lincoln grew up starting from his very very young childhood to becoming a Man. He learned all of his strength and wisdom in the surrounding area of the Lincoln State Park that is in Spencer County, Southern Indiana 🕯️🎩

  • @markstaggs7342

    @markstaggs7342

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's the real truth indiana made him

  • @lynnpink4150
    @lynnpink41503 жыл бұрын

    Me: Lincoln Cabin huh *clicks on video* *Not even halfway through the video* Mind: *went to a dark place.*

  • @stevenscummy1458
    @stevenscummy14584 жыл бұрын

    As a wood aficionado I'm offended by her closing statement. I will not be visiting anytime soon now

  • @discobikerAndRosie

    @discobikerAndRosie

    4 жыл бұрын

    Steven Scummy Wow. Your feelings are hurt because she put more importance on Lincoln, than the actual cabin? That's just weird. I'm a direct descendant. Abe is my cousin. How do ya like them apples???

  • @machia0705

    @machia0705

    4 жыл бұрын

    Steven Scummy She doesn’t respect wood.

  • @stevenscummy1458

    @stevenscummy1458

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@machia0705 Needs to have more respect for wood for sure

  • @andaros2106
    @andaros21064 жыл бұрын

    No dating method is ever infallible due to assumptions made during them. For instance, newer logs were sometimes used to replace older logs in the old log cabins. Unless a core sample was taken out of every single log, and they all came up as the same timeframe, you can't really rule out that happening.

  • @anthonywhitehead9660
    @anthonywhitehead96604 жыл бұрын

    I was there and saw both cabins. Yay lol

  • @Ripplesinthewaters
    @Ripplesinthewaters3 жыл бұрын

    The family who owned the land at the creek and at Knob Hill May have had the cabins destroyed. Abe’s father had horrible legal troubles with the land.

  • @BigSpice15
    @BigSpice153 жыл бұрын

    I live a few minutes down the road from that cabin

  • @damianreyesavila3402
    @damianreyesavila34024 жыл бұрын

    The small cabin House.🎬

  • @brocboehman4060
    @brocboehman40604 жыл бұрын

    I used to live in Lincoln IN

  • @JoeyLloydPhotography
    @JoeyLloydPhotography5 жыл бұрын

    I been there and it is a great place to visit and its history.

  • @alexpeters3548
    @alexpeters35484 жыл бұрын

    Now if the Park Service can locate and mark the Obama Birth site

  • @sheeznutz2254

    @sheeznutz2254

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @ripdiptatterchip3851

    @ripdiptatterchip3851

    4 жыл бұрын

    africa

  • @user-jz3vc9kd2j

    @user-jz3vc9kd2j

    4 жыл бұрын

    NPS has no authority in Africa. So they cant place a marker there.

  • @buttgoomagoo6919

    @buttgoomagoo6919

    4 жыл бұрын

    Right under a pile of shit,I'd say

  • @hvit
    @hvit5 жыл бұрын

    Lincoln Logs

  • @incognito7479
    @incognito74794 жыл бұрын

    Honestly, my honesty put me in prison for 5 years. Truthfully, it doesn’t pay to be honest. Strange but true.

  • @VintageRose75

    @VintageRose75

    4 жыл бұрын

    Repsychler 808 Please share with us...

  • @treyphish83
    @treyphish834 жыл бұрын

    Serious question, where can I contact the park ranger in this video?

  • @jshepard152

    @jshepard152

    4 жыл бұрын

    At the park, I'd imagine.

  • @bguen1234
    @bguen12344 жыл бұрын

    Tree ring matching is guessing, at best. Matching patterns are more likely to be from the same years but not matching isn't exclusionary. Unless two trees are in identical soil with identical amounts of water and sunshine available every year then the rings may not match well.

  • @lloydpergande3286

    @lloydpergande3286

    4 жыл бұрын

    Plus,it would only tell how old the tree was,not WHEN it was cut.

  • @lloydpergande3286

    @lloydpergande3286

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Scott Laux you can't tell what year a tree was cut down by counting it's rings. And I am aware that variations in atmospheric conditions affect ring growth.

  • @ronaldcammarata3422

    @ronaldcammarata3422

    4 жыл бұрын

    I suggest you write a scholarly paper on the subject since you are clearly an expert.

  • @lloydpergande3286

    @lloydpergande3286

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Scott Laux it's not the tree rings,get it. Tree rings aren't dated yet it? They don't say 1820 for instance,get it? Tree rings date the trees age not a specific year,get it? It is a simple understanding. If a petrified tree was sectioned, you can tell the trees approximate age,but not what year it fell,understand now?

  • @lloydpergande3286

    @lloydpergande3286

    4 жыл бұрын

    @markj6700 yes but no year stamped,could of been cut any year.forrests have all trees of varying age,if it's standing and you cut it down,you can count rings and know about when it sprouted,but not side drilling a log.that would only tell you the age of the tree approximately.

  • @jasonmcdaniel345
    @jasonmcdaniel3453 жыл бұрын

    There is an obelisk (similar to the Washington Monument) dedicated to Jefferson Davis near his birthplace. According to Wikipedia, it is the tallest unreinforced concrete structure in the world. In the gift shop, they sell copies of the Emancipation Proclamation. Between that and the logs getting mixed up on their cabins, both Lincoln and Jefferson are probably turning over in their graves.

  • @maximus78028
    @maximus780286 жыл бұрын

    uh great story of breaking happy memories, to prove a point I guess! Some lies are better left alone.

  • @patricksulley5840

    @patricksulley5840

    4 жыл бұрын

    not everyone in the world saw this video

  • @georgebowlby7700
    @georgebowlby77003 жыл бұрын

    My GRANDPA went there

  • @jeffmonroe2956
    @jeffmonroe29564 жыл бұрын

    Real smart professor. Couldn't he have counted the rings from the end of the logs ?

  • @Shindinru
    @Shindinru4 жыл бұрын

    I don't know how many core samples they took but unless they took samples from at least half the logs (and the dates mostly agreed) I don't consider their findings valid. Why? because it was exceptionally common to replace damaged or decaying parts, that combined with the road show where the cabin was repeatedly put up and taken down means that parts may have been damage and replaced.

  • @PoliticusRex632
    @PoliticusRex6324 жыл бұрын

    I thought the little cabin he was born in was moved to a museum in Springfield, Illinois?

  • @landoflogic107

    @landoflogic107

    4 жыл бұрын

    Politicus Rex no, that was a prop. If you are thinking of the cabin at the museum with the young Lincoln mannequin in it, it’s a prop. You may be referring to another one though.

  • @PoliticusRex632

    @PoliticusRex632

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@landoflogic107 no that was the one. I found a little article saying it was actually a shed that was on the property.

  • @landoflogic107

    @landoflogic107

    4 жыл бұрын

    Politicus Rex Ah, yeah I knew that was too small to be the actual cabin, but it was cool that they managed to find a shed from around that area.

  • @joshrich5010
    @joshrich50105 жыл бұрын

    He was actually born in Monroe County because his birth information was in the old court house that got burnt In the war so the information was gone so they wanted to make it look like he did not have to move far to Spring field Illinois his dad had land in Monroe County Ky and built the cabin there and he was born in that cabin then they moved when he was a little older but his birth information got burnt in the old Monroe County court house

  • @BrooklynBronxQueensStaten
    @BrooklynBronxQueensStaten4 жыл бұрын

    The same goes for Billy the Kid’s burial site 🧐

  • @levanmartin1418
    @levanmartin14186 жыл бұрын

    thats me in the video.

  • @S0ulbabymusic
    @S0ulbabymusic3 жыл бұрын

    “209th birthday” says that so casually

  • @bonanzatime
    @bonanzatime3 жыл бұрын

    Still, that's damn old log (wood) cabin. .. with a wood chimney no less.

  • @BrokenneckYgor
    @BrokenneckYgor4 ай бұрын

    Abe hated logs

  • @connoroverall580
    @connoroverall5802 жыл бұрын

    Cabin Fever : Lincoln Edition.

  • @TamraLynn7_28_23
    @TamraLynn7_28_234 жыл бұрын

    Happy birthday anerham Lincoln

  • @SevenDeMagnus
    @SevenDeMagnus3 жыл бұрын

    Cool, it's Abraham's log cabin, itself.

  • @hijodelaisla275
    @hijodelaisla2753 жыл бұрын

    Haven't these people heard the phrase, "Leave well-enough alone"?

  • @uruiamnot
    @uruiamnot4 жыл бұрын

    -Lincoln Logs- oh wait... My bad. Gimme your *Lincoln Cents*