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The U.S. Grant Boyhood Home in Georgetown, Ohio was the home of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States, from 1823, when Grant was one year old, until 1839, when he left to attend West Point. Grant lived in this home longer than any other house during his lifetime.
Childhood home of the 18th President and first General of the Army, Ulysses S. Grant. Museum and tours offered from May to October, Wednesday through Sunday or by appointment; sites also include the two-room Dutch Hill schoolhouse he attended as a boy, and a granite statue in the courthouse square.
The Ulysses S. Grant Homestead Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the role that Georgetown, Ohio played in the general's life. The organization maintains the Grant's family home and the school he attended as a child.
The Grant Boyhood Home is a historic house museum at 219 East Grant Avenue in Georgetown, Ohio. Built in 1823, it was where United States President and American Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant (1822–85) lived from 1823 until 1839, when he left for the United States Military Academy at West Point.
- Jesse Grant
- 1823
- less than one acre
- 219 East Grant Avenue, Georgetown, Ohio
To celebrate the life, history, and legacy of Ulysses S. Grant through preservation and education. Chartered in 1970, the US Grant Homestead Association seeks to preserve and promote the life and legacy of US Grant as a young boy, a general, and 18th President of the United States.
The Grant Boyhood Home in Georgetown was the home of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States, from 1823, when Grant was one year old, until 1839, when he left to attend West Point. Ulysses Grant lived in this home longer than any other during his lifetime.
The site, also known as White Haven, commemorates the life, military career and presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Five historic structures are preserved at the site, including the childhood home of Ulysses' wife, Julia Dent Grant. White Haven was an 850-acre plantation worked by enslaved people; Grant supervised their forced labor from 1854 to 1859.
