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Built
  
1817

NRHP Reference #
  
98001013

Area
  
2 ha

Added to NRHP
  
6 August 1998

Architect
  
Goller, Harsh & Davies

Opened
  
1817

Phone
  
+1 513-553-4911

Grant Birthplace

Location
  
U.S. Route 52 and State Route 232 at Point Pleasant, Ohio

Address
  
1551 OH-232, Moscow, OH 45153, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–12PM, 1–5PMSaturday9AM–12PM, 1–5PMSunday1–5PMMondayClosedTuesdayClosedWednesday9AM–12PM, 1–5PMThursday9AM–12PM, 1–5PMFriday9AM–12PM, 1–5PM

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The Grant Birthplace in Point Pleasant, Ohio was the birthplace of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, who was born there in 1822. The home was built in 1817, and in 1821 Jesse Root Grant wed Hannah Simpson Grant (Ulysses's parents) and they moved into the home where they paid $2 a month rent. The future president lived in Point Pleasant for less than a year, as his family moved to Georgetown one month before his first birthday.

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The Ohio Historical Society operates the site as a historic house museum. Today it is furnished with items that once belonged to Grant, as well as a few period items. In 1998, the birthplace and several associated buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district.

The Grant Birthplace and surrounding areas have been found to be a historical archaeological site. As part of making the site ADA-compliant, a small-scale construction project in the summer of 2010 involved the replacement of stone gutters at the site. Ohio State Historic Preservation Office staff archaeologists conducted a test excavation of some of the areas surrounding the gutters, discovering foundations of an 1810s tannery.

Previous archaeological work in and around the Grant Birthplace included the retrieval of early nineteenth-century pottery from a small midden being impacted by the replacement of a nearby bridge in 1984, as well as a field survey of open areas in the birthplace grounds before the construction of a small building at the site in 2005; the latter project recovered only a couple of insignificant lithic flakes from an unidentified prehistoric period.

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Grant Birthplace Wikipedia


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