I can never get enough of presidential or White House history. 97% of my Netflix rentals or instant watches are of documentaries – mostly having something to do with presidential or US History.
This morning, I made a quick list of presidential sites I’ve visited since my youth. My bucket list includes the Harry Truman sites in Independence, MO, the Adams’ sites in Boston, MA, as well as several presidential sites here in Ohio.
- Washington’s Birthplace
- Parents’ graves
- Washington’s Mount Vernon
- Jefferson’s Monticello
- Monroe’s Ash Lawn
- Jackson’s The Hermitage
- WHHarrison’s Berkley Plantation
- Polk’s home
- Lincoln’s Birthplace
- Lincoln’s Knob Creek Farm
- Lincoln’s Indiana Home
- Mother’s grave – Nancy Hanks
- Sister’s grave – Sarah Lincoln
- Lincoln’s Charleston, IL home
- Parents’ graves
- Lincoln’s Springfield home
- Lincoln Presidential Museum & Library
- Lincoln’s Mother’s home in Kentucky (Nancy Hanks)
- Lincoln’s Step-mother’s home in Kentucky (Sarah Bush Johnston)
- Lincoln’s Step-mother’s home in Illinois
- Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, KY
- Parents’ graves
- Sites dealing with Mrs. Lincoln’s youth
- Grant’s birthplace
- Grant’s boyhood home
- Haye’s Spiegel Grove
- Benjamin Harrison’s home
- Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill
- Taft’s Birthplace
- Harding’s Home
- Franklin Roosevelt’s Springwood (Hyde Park)
- Carter’s Sites in Plains, GA
Presidential Graves…
- Washington
- Jefferson
- Monroe
- Jackson
- WHHarrison
- Tyler
- Taylor
- Polk
- Lincoln
- Grant
- Hayes
- B Harrison
- T Roosevelt
- Taft
- Wilson
- Harding
- F Roosevelt
- Kennedy