The Birthplace of Lincoln and Davis

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. He spent the first seven years of his life in Kentucky before his family moved to Indiana. The state's other most famous native son is Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, who was born just about 100 miles away less than a year before Lincoln. The two men who would lead opposing sides in the Civil War were born in the same state, in the same year, within a day's ride of each other.

Source: Wikipedia