LaRue County is served by an excellent highway system: Interstate-65 cuts across its western border; Lincoln Parkway leads to the Lincoln Birthplace and serves as a gateway to Kentucky's Cumberland Plateau; U.S. 31E and U.S. 31W bisect the county, along with a network of state and rural roads.

Tourist attractions in Larue County include the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, the Lincoln Boyhood Home on Knob Creek, the Lincoln Museum on Hodgenville's Lincoln Square, and the Lincoln Jamboree, one of the nation's finest country music shows.

LaRue County was formed in 1843. It is located in the Pennyrile region of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 421 to 1080 feet above sea level. In 2003, the county population was 13,437 in a land area of 263 square miles.

Hodgenville, the county seat of LaRue County and birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, is located in south-central Kentucky's Mississippian Plateaus Region, 55 miles south of Louisville, Kentucky, and 128 miles northeast of Nashville, Tennessee. The city had a 2002 population of 2,788 persons.

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