Visits to Presidential Sites

12th President, 1849-1850 Zachary Taylor sites visited: Taylor's boyhood home, known as Springfield, can be found at 5608 Apache Road in Louisville, Kentucky. It's a private residence so there are no tours. He has a bust in the Virginia State Capitol. A fort in Key West was named after him. His statue joins the other Presidents in the City of Presidents, Rapid City, South Dakota. Taylor is buried in what is now the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. His grave is easy to spot because a large monument stands next to it. Taylor was first entombed here, behind his current spot. Today he rests here with his wife, Margaret. Taylor's body was exhumed in 1991 but tested negative for arsenic poisoning. Zachary Taylor was not a politician, had no formal education, and considered the military his career. He fought in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and the Mexican War. He became a national hero in 1847 in the Battle of Buena Vista i...

35th President, 1961-1963  JFK sites visited: JFK was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, MA, in 1917. The site was not open. I have these photos from 2009 and I think they were from a tour of this place but I can't be sure. We happened to eat here on a visit to Boston, MA in 2014.  This statue in Dayton, Ohio, is supposed to represent Kennedy and the Eternal Flame. You be the judge. Find it on the campus of the University of Dayton, E. Stewart Street. JFK gave a speech at Roosevelt's Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. The National Museum of the U.S. Air force is located near Dayton and has Kennedy's plane, the one that flew him to Dallas and back in 1963. The car which carried Kennedy on that fateful day in Dallas is in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. After the assassination the car was rebuilt with a roof, armor plating, and more, and remained in service until 1977. The Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois, had a small Kennedy exhibit i...