Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site - St. Louis, MO
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N 38° 33.117 W 090° 21.079
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Also known as White Haven, the home where the Civil War general and future 18th President of the United States and his family lived from 1854 to 1859. Located in southwest St. Louis County adjacent to Grant's Farm.
Waymark Code: WM6B4H
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2009
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White Haven was the childhood home of Julia Dent, who became Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant in 1848. The Grants lived at White Haven between 1854 and 1859, before his rise to fame as the general who saved the Union during the Civil War and 18th president of the United States. During the war Grant began purchasing White Haven and making plans to retire there. The ten-acre core of the original 850-acre plantation is now Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, a unit of the National Park Service. In addition to the main house, the ice house, chicken house, and summer kitchen have been restored as tangible links to White Haven's past. The historic stable serves as the site's interpretive museum, and the visitor center offers an information desk, sales area, exhibits, theater, and restrooms.
~ transcribed from the back of passport sticker package purchased in the gift shop.
Several key elements defined the man Grant and his character - loving devotion to his wife Julia and their four children, a genuine affection for family and friends, a keen sense of duty to country, and a deep concern for humanity. It is his legacy as a person that resonates so strongly at his White Haven home, now known as Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site. It was here that Grant and Julia Dent first met and courted in the 1840s. White Haven is a place where visitors may encounter Ulysses and Julia Grant as ordinary individuals facing the joys and challenges of life, shaped by the times in which they lived.
White Haven is a microcosm of national issues in that the different backgrounds and opinions which strained relations between Ulysses, Julia, and their respective families mirrored the tensions throughout the country that would eventually tear the nation apart in the mid-19th century. At the root of these differences was the institution of slavery.
~ abridged text transcribed from the National Park Service brochure for Ulysses S. Grant NHS.
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