The Sinking Spring Farm in Kentucky , where Abe Lincoln was born in February, 1809, is home to this black walnut tree. The promise of the first American West drew soldiers, adventurers, speculators, and common farm folk, like the Lincoln's, into the rich lands of the Ohio River Valley and the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Lincoln 's father paid $200 for 348 acres of stony ground on the south fork of Nolin Creek. The farm's name came from a spring on the property which emerged from a deep cave (you can still visit the spring). However, Lincoln did not remember living on the farm because his family moved down the road to Knob Creek Farm when he was only two years old.