At the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site is a Beaux-Arts classical granite and marble memorial building containing the traditional Lincoln birth cabin. A notable natural feature on the Site is a spring that emerges from a rock ledge and flows into a deep sinkhole. The spring is adjacent to the knoll on which the Memorial Building is located. Roughly triangular in shape, the Site is located in the rolling hill country of LaRue County , Kentucky , three miles south of Hodgenville, the county seat, and approximately 50 miles south of Louisville . Lincoln was born there in 1809 and today, the Lincoln Persimmon bears orange flowers and small fruits.