HODGENVILLE

city, seat (1843) of Larue county, central Kentucky, U.S. It lies along the Nolin River just south of Elizabethtown. The area was settled in 1789 by Robert Hodgen, who erected a mill and tavern. The city is now an agricultural trading centre (tobacco, corn , livestock), and natural-gas wells are nearby. The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site is 3 miles (5 km) south on the Old Sinking Spring Farm. The Knob Creek Farm, where Lincoln's family moved when he was two, is 7 miles (11 km) northeast. Inc. 1818. Pop. (1990) 2,721.