TR Robertson — Each of the former Presidents of the United States has numerous museums, homes and other historic sites travelers can add to their list of places to visit when going to various states in the U.S. Many of these places are extremely interesting and amazing as you can step back in time in the homes, parks and historic sites as you go into their former places of residence or birth, viewing the actual furniture or representations from their time period, seeing the actual clothing they and members of their family wore and seeing documents and artifacts from the past that was a part of our American history. Just following visits to sites dedicated to Abraham Lincoln would fill a summer vacation.

One unusual site to visit is in in Croaker, Virginia, and is the site of 43 18-to-23-foot-tall heads of 43 of the U.S. Presidents. Originally commissioned by Everette Newman as a $10 million project for a park in Williamsburg, sculpted by David Adickes, the project closed in 2004 and was moved to the farm of Howard Hankins in 2010. The sculptures need repair and were recently featured in a news segment in the CBS Sunday Morning news show.

The following is Part I of an alphabetical list of the states where these Presidential sites can be found, including the address of the Presidential site. For more specific information about the place listed, Google the name of the site and detailed information will come up to fill you in about what you and your family can view, as well as more detailed directions to the site. Wikipedia also has a wealth of information about the Presidential site. If you are traveling to any of the states listed in Part I & II, add some of these historic sites to your lists of places to visit.

Arkansas

Clinton Center and Birthplace – 117 S Hervey St., Hope, Arkansas

William J. Clinton Presidential Center – 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock

California

Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace (includes a museum, grave sites, & restored 1912 farmhouse) – 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd – Yorba Linda

Florida

Harry S. Truman Little White House – 111 Front St., Naval Air Station, Key West

Georgia

Jimmy Carter National Historic Site – 301 N. Bonds St. – Plains, Ga.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Little White House Site – 401 Little White House Rd. – Warm Springs

Boyhood Home of Woodrow Wilson – 419 7^th St. – Augusta

Illinois

Ulysses S. Grant Home – 500 Bouthillier St. – Galena

Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site (includes the restored 1860 log cabin) – 413 S 8^th St. – Springfield, Ill

Lincoln’s Cabin State Historic Site – 402 S Lincoln Hwy Rd., Lerna

Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum – 46,000-piece collection – 212 N 6^th St., Springfield

Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site – 650-acre village resembling life in the 1830’s – 15588 History Ln, Petersburg

Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home – 810 & 816 S Hennepin Av, Dixon

Ronald Reagan Birthplace – a 1911 apartment, 11 S Main St., Tampico

Indiana

Benjamin Harrison Home – 1230 N. Delaware, Indianapolis

William Henry Harrison’s Grouseland Mansion – 3 W Scott St., Vincennes

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial – 3027 E S St., Lincoln City

Iowa

Herbert Hoover National Site and Presidential Library & Museum – 210 Parkside Dr., West Branch

Kansas

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Boyhood Home (1898-1946) – 200 S E 4^th St., Abilene

Kentucky

Abraham Lincoln’s Birthplace Historic Site & Boyhood Home at Knob Creek – includes reconstructed log cabin – 2995 Lincoln Farm Rd., Hodgenville

Zachary Taylor Monument and Memorial Cemetery – 4701 Brownsboro, Louisville

Massachusetts

John Adams National Historic Park – 135 Adams St., Quincy

Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum – 20 West St, Northampton

John F. Kennedy Historic Site – 83 Beals St., Brookline

Missouri

Hardscrabble Cabin at Ulysses Grant Farm & National Historic Site – 7385 Grant Rd, St. Louis

Harry S. Truman State Historic Site – 1009 Truman St., Lamar

New Hampshire

The Franklin Pierce Manse Historic Home – 52 S Main St., Concord

Franklin Pierce Homestead – 301 2^nd New Hampshire Turnpike – Hillsborough

New Jersey

Grover Cleveland Birthplace Historic Site – 207 Bloomfield Ave., Caldwell

Part II will take you from New York through Washington D.C. and the incredible list of places dedicated to the various Presidents of the United States.