Abraham Lincoln has several significant connections to Louisville, Kentucky, most notably an 1841 visit to the city where he stayed with his friend Joshua Speed at theĀ Farmington plantation. Ā
He also spent time reading law books at a downtown Louisville office and would later become deeply invested in keeping his home state in the Union during the Civil War.Ā Today, you can see theĀ Lincoln Memorial at Waterfront ParkĀ with a 12-foot statue byĀ Ed HamiltonĀ and bas reliefs depicting his life, and another Lincoln statue outside theĀ Louisville Free Public Library.
The original bronze top hat was stolen from the statue in December 2023. The statue’s sculptorĀ had the hat recreated, and the new hat was reattached to the statue in June 2024. The original hat was never found and its fate remains a mystery.
