State Buys Ex-President Grant’s Boyhood Home
The state of Ohio has bought the boyhood home of Ulysses S. Grant, the nation’s 18th president and a Civil War hero.
The state paid $200,000 for the two-story brick house built in sections by Grant’s father, tanner Jesse Grant, between 1823 and 1829 in Georgetown, a small southern Ohio town.
The Ohio Historical Society will oversee its operation.
It also operated the state-owned schoolhouse that Grant attended and the one-room home in nearby Point Pleasant where he was born in 1822.
Grant lived in the house from 1823 until 1839, when he left for West Point and a military career.
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