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Hardin county, Kentucky, United States
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Elizabethtown, city, seat of Hardin county, central Kentucky, U.S., 44 miles (71 km) south of Louisville. Settled as Severns Valley Station (1779–80), it was laid out in 1793 by Colonel Andrew Hynes and named for his wife when it was officially established in 1797. Abraham Lincoln’s parents lived for a time in Elizabethtown in the early 1800s. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site is at Hodgenville, 13 miles (21 km) southeast of the city. During...

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