[3] The two-story Francis Berry House is the only original structure; it was where Nancy Hanks, Abraham's mother, was working as a seamstress and living while being courted by Thomas Lincoln.

[4][5] Two other buildings are reconstructions: the "workshop" where Thomas learned blacksmithing and carpentry, and the "Lincoln cabin."

[6] Captain Abraham Lincoln, the president's grandfather, had moved to the site from Virginia in 1781 and 1782 with his wife Bathsheba and their children following the American Revolutionary War.

Thomas was saved by his oldest brother Mordecai's shooting the Indian before he could do anything to the boy.

Captain Lincoln was buried near the cabin, but the exact location is unknown.