California
– Richard Nixon (Yorba Linda)
– Ronald Reagan (Santa Barbara)
District of Columbia
– Woodrow Wilson (plus his birthplace less than three hours away in Staunton, Va.)
Georgia
– Jimmy Carter (Plains)
Illinois
– Ulysses S. Grant (Galena)
– Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, plus birthplace sites in Hodgenville
and Knob Creek, Ky., and his boyhood home in Lincoln City, Ind.)
Indiana
– Benjamin Harrison (Indianapolis)
Iowa
– Herbert Hoover (West Branch)
Kentucky
– Zachary Taylor (Louisville)
Maine
– George H.W. Bush
Massachusetts
– John Adams (Quincy, plus his birthplace in the same city)
– John Quincy Adams (Quincy)
– John F. Kennedy (Brookline)
Missouri
– Harry S Truman (Independence, plus his farm home in nearby Grandview)
New Hampshire
– Franklin Pierce (Hillsborough)
New Jersey
– Grover Cleveland (Princeton)
New York
– Chester A. Arthur (New York City)
– Millard Fillmore (East Aurora)
– Franklin D. Roosevelt (Hyde Park)
– Theodore Roosevelt (Oyster Bay, plus his birthplace in New York City)
– Martin Van Buren (Kinderhook)
Ohio
– James A. Garfield (Mentor)
– Warren G. Harding (Marion)
– Rutherford B. Hayes (Fremont)
– William Howard Taft (Cincinnati)
Pennsylvania
– James Buchanan (Lancaster)
– Dwight Eisenhower (Gettysburg)
Tennessee
– Andrew Jackson (Nashville)
– Andrew Johnson (Greenville)
– James K. Polk (Columbia)
Texas
– George W. Bush (Crawford)
– Lyndon B. Johnson (Johnson City)
Vermont
– Calvin Coolidge (Plymouth Notch)
Virginia
– Thomas Jefferson (Charlottesville)
– James Madison (Orange)
– James Monroe (Charlottesville, plus his mansion in Oak Hill)
– John Tyler (Charles City, also previously the home of President
William Henry Harrison)
– George Washington (Mount Vernon)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 9:33 am |
Great list! May I recommend three more. Dwight Eisenhower’s childhood home and library are in Abilene (150 miles west of Kansas City), Kansas, http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov. You can do an Eisenhower/Truman tour in a long weekend. Second, Eisenhower’s birthplace is in Denison (an hour north of Dallas), Texas, http://www.eisenhowerbirthplace.org.
My last recommend is Lincoln’s Summer Cottage in DC, http://www.lincolncottage.org. He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation there. It is three miles north of the White House.