Lincoln's Birthplace: A National Park and Popular Family Vacation Destination (VIDEO)

The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park is an especially beloved national park, celebrating on of the most important presidents in the country's history, and a memorable place to visit, according to USA Today.

Even children find the historical site extremely memorable. Jackie Harley was 12 years old when she visited the site on a family vacation.

"I remember thinking it was quite awesome," Harley, who was interested in history even as a young child recalls. "I remember being able to imagine what it must have been like."

Today, Harley is a teacher at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School. She brings her students to the park at least once a year to teach them about Abraham Lincoln and Kentucky history. The students dress in period clothes for the field trips.

Harley also spends much of her free time at the national park, spending her summers doing volunteer work at the park, working to develop activities to help teachers educate their students.

Lincoln's boyhood home is in the park, located about 10 miles from Lincoln's birthplace and the visitor's center. The landscape is much as it was when Lincoln was growing up. However, while the cabin on the property is original to the period, it isn't where Lincoln lived.

The appeal of the park is that "arguably the greatest president of the United States started his life here," Bill Justice, the superintendent of the park, said. "It's a touchstone to the beginning of Abraham Lincoln's journey through life."

He adds that Lincoln's home "speaks to the American experience" of a family who "scratched out a living on the farm" and then a young man going off to get an education and become president.

"He's a heroic figure," Justice added. "And people connect to that."

The park is 345 acres and was established in 1916 through private donations and then designated as a park by the War Department. It was then transferred to the National Parks system in 1933.