I have to admit to very few hits on the presidential landmarks list.
I’ve been to Monticello and Hyde Park.
I’ve been to the Dealey Plaza museum.
I’ve been to Fillmore’s gravesite.
I just checked my map and I’m glad I did, for #23 Benjamin Harrison’s grave site in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis IN. I was there maybe 10-12 years ago and I was smart enough to capture the DD coordinates for his gravesite.
▲ 39.81887, -86.17566
Paste those numbers into the map and it’ll take you right there — within maybe 25-50 feet of it, anyway.
Yeah the museums focus on their lives and by extension of course, the pertinent issues during their presidencies and lives. That’s what we (da wife and me) have learned as we kept going to them and we’ve gotten to like them.
Dealey Plaza in Dallas — very cool. I need to add that to my list.
And the Corn Palace too (although I’ve been to the Idaho Potato Museum in Blackfoot!).
I’ve been to the Gerald Ford museum. It was free admission on Labor Day a few years ago, and I was working a Labor Day event in the vicinity, so my wife and I popped in.
I haven’t been to most of them. I’ve been to
Franklin D. Roosevelt – Hyde Park
John Adams and John Quincy Adams – Quincy, MA
George Washington – Mount Vernon
I’ve long wanted to visit Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, but never got there.
Also Teddy Roosevelt’s home at Sagamore Hill on Long Island (not listed above).
Oh, I forgot – I’ve been to Franklin Peirce’s homestead in Hillsborough, New Hampshire.
I’ve been to the Clinton Library because I was in Little Rock and there is nothing to do there and I’ve been to Camp Hoover, Herbert Hoover’s fly fishing camp in what is now the Shenandoah National Park many times. The camp was kind of a precursor to Camp David and sits on the Rapidan River, a nice little brook trout stream.
I (and a friend) was camping at Petit Jean State Park* in Arkansas and the day looked to be rainy so we headed to Little Rock to do some inside things. We went to The Central High School visitor center (the school itself is still active and not open to visitors), the Clinton Library, Heifer HQ (very small visitor area, but we were offered a tour of the rest of the building** which we gladly accepted), and the capitol (near closing, but they let us wander around).
It is the only presidential library I have been too, and the (I think) only state capitol besides Wisconsin I have been in.
Brian
* A very nice state park which thankfully has a lodge - we spent quite a while by the fireplace
** The building won some sort of environmental award (LEED certification of some sort) – It wasn’t all that exciting but we were happy to be warm and dry
There’s also his Birthplace National Historic Site in Manhattan, though it’s a reconstruction of the original building.
The closest presidential libraries/museums to me are Nixon’s and Reagan’s. I have zero interest in going to either one.
We visited the Central HS too, but it was after hours so we missed the Visitor Center.
At the Capitol we took a tour. I’ve done a handful of Capitol tours but this was the first one where they took you into the valuables safe and they had a big stack of $100 bills tied together. Off the capitol tours I’ve taken, that’s a first!
Here’s a pic — ➜ $6 million in cash, at the Little Rock AR Capitol Building tour — wow - Album on Imgur ■