Postcard, Kirk's Tourist Camp, Hodgenville, Kentucky, circa 1935
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Motorists weary of roughing it in tents found that homey little cabins offered a convenient, economical alternative. By the 1930s, tourist cabins were popping up everywhere. Kirk's Tourist Camp offered convenient lodging next to an automotive service station in Hodgenville, Kentucky -- near Abraham Lincoln's birthplace and boyhood home.
Motorists weary of roughing it in tents found that homey little cabins offered a convenient, economical alternative. By the 1930s, tourist cabins were popping up everywhere. Kirk's Tourist Camp offered convenient lodging next to an automotive service station in Hodgenville, Kentucky -- near Abraham Lincoln's birthplace and boyhood home.
Artifact
Postcard
Date Made
1935
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
37.102.189
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.5 in
Width: 5.5 in
Inscriptions
Text on bottom border of postcard: "KIRK'S TOURIST CAMP-- HOGDENVILLE, KY.
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