What to see in America . is Lexington, which received its name from havingbeen founded in the year of the Battle of the famous stock farms near it is Ashland, formerlythe home of Henry Clay. At Woburn, fifteen miles fromthe city, that famous trotter, Maud S, was bred, and sevenmiles north of the city is Poplar Hill, the birthplace ofNancy Hanks, who trotted a mile in About forty milessouth from Lexington, on the edge of the CumberlandMountains, is Berea College, which is doing such excellentwork among the Mountain Whites. It was organized in >.,. 1855 for the education
What to see in America . is Lexington, which received its name from havingbeen founded in the year of the Battle of the famous stock farms near it is Ashland, formerlythe home of Henry Clay. At Woburn, fifteen miles fromthe city, that famous trotter, Maud S, was bred, and sevenmiles north of the city is Poplar Hill, the birthplace ofNancy Hanks, who trotted a mile in About forty milessouth from Lexington, on the edge of the CumberlandMountains, is Berea College, which is doing such excellentwork among the Mountain Whites. It was organized in >.,. 1855 for the education ofboth whites and founder was a clergy-man who was a son of aslaveholder, but a zealousopponent of slavery. Forthis opposition his fatherand his church disownedhim. The college wassuppressed after the JohnBrown affair, and its offi-cers were driven from thestate, but it was revivedafter the war. Kentucky has manysalty swamps calledlicks, which the deer A Road near Lincolns Birthplace and elk and buffalo frc-. Kentucky 219 quented in pioneer days. The largest of these swamp-bordered springs is the Big Bone Lick, about twenty milessouthwest of Covington in the most northerly nook of thestate. The mire there contains a wonderful mass of thebones of the elephant, mastodon, musk-ox, and other crea-tures which are now extinct or which a change of climatelong ago forced to leave this section. At Gethsemane, nearly half a hundred miles southeast ofLouisville, is the only Trappist monastery in the UnitedStates. Somewhat to the west is Elizabethtown where, in1806, Thomas Lincoln married Nancy Hanks. The nextyear a daughter was born to them, and they moved about adozen miles to a little farm near Hodgenville. Here wasborn Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809, and here he livedin a log cabin until he was seven, when the family migratedto Indiana. A costly temple-like structure has been builtwhere the home stood,and in it is sheltered whatis alleged to be the logcabin in which the
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