Garfield is an unincorporated community in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, United States.

[2] A post office was established in the community in 1880 and named for the candidate and future president James A.

The community had asphalt mines, an inn, churches and a stage coach stop.

Abraham Lincoln stayed at the inn as a child in 1816 when the family was moving to Indiana.

According to tradition, the slaves at the inn refused to eat with the poor white trash Lincoln.