[bennettnate5]

> They were named after President Lincoln, but only as a marketing tactic

> there's no real connection

Funny--I always thought it was meant to be a pun on linkin', as in you're linkin' the logs together because they have those slots that fit precisely together on the ends.

[saghm]

I think it's both that and the popular tale of Lincoln having been born in a log cabin (which for some reason I thought I had heard wasn't actually true, but from looking into it now, it seems like a lot of sources say it is, so maybe I heard wrong?)