The Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum is a historic house museum on the campus of the former Lincoln Institute in rural Shelby County, Kentucky, near Shelbyville. It was the birthplace and childhood home of Whitney M. Young Jr. (1921–71), an American civil rights leader. Young became prominent for his leadership of the National Urban League between 1961 and 1971.
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Clark Station is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky located on Clark Station Road.
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Long Run Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery on Long Run Road in Eastwood neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
In 1786 Captain Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln was murdered near this site by Native Americans, while President Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln, age eight, watched his father's murder. Tradition states that Captain Abraham Lincoln was buried by his cabin, which is now the site of Long Run Baptist Church and Cemetery. A stone memorializing Captain Abraham Lincoln was placed in the cemetery in 1937. The church was built on the site in 1844. The church and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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Boston is a former neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, located along Shelbyville Road near Long Run. It is now surrounded by subdivisions and the designation is no longer used.
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The Carpenter House located on Kentucky Highway 148 one mile south of Clark Station, Shelby County, Kentucky, was constructed during 1843 – 1848, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Built in antebellum vernacular style, it incorporates stone, weatherboard, metal, and brick materials into its construction.
It is a two-story, center-passage, single-pile plan house.
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Long Run is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky located near Shelbyville Road and Clark Station Road.
The house is now managed by the Lincoln Foundation, a successor to the Lincoln Institute, as a museum to its and Young's history. The house appears on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1984.
