HODGENVILLE, a town of central Kentucky, U.S.A., on Federal highway 68 and the Illinois Central railroad, 5om. S. of Louisville; the county seat of Larue county. The population was 1,104 in 193o. Three miles south-west of the town, in a log cabin on the Big South Fork of Nolin's Creek, Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809. The cabin is now enclosed in a memorial hall, and is kept as a national shrine.