The Knob Creek unit of the national historical park marks the farm where Lincoln lived as a small child, before his family moved to Indiana. A reconstructed cabin and the valley landscape help make sense of the family's difficult early years in Kentucky.
This is less formal than the birthplace site and often quieter. It is worth visiting after the Birthplace Unit because the two places together turn Lincoln from a marble figure into a child moving through farms, creeks, and debt-haunted frontier land.