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A National Historic Landmark, the farmhouse at 12301 Blue Ridge Blvd. was built in 1894 by Harry Truman's maternal grandmother, and is the centerpiece of a 5.25 acres (2.12 ha) remnant of the family's former 600-acre (240 ha) farm. Truman worked the farm as a young man, from 1906 to 1917.
It includes the Truman Home at 219 North Delaware, Truman's home for much of his adult life and now a centerpiece of the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, and the Truman Presidential Library. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974. [2]
The Truman Farm Home is located in a commercially developed area of Grandview, between Blue Ridge Boulevard and Interstate 49.The site consists of a farm house (built in 1894-95 after the 1867 house was destroyed by fire); a reconstructed smokehouse; the Grandview post office-turned-garage (Truman moved it to the farm to store his 1911 Stafford automobile); a restored box wagon once used on ...
Missouri: Harry S. Truman National Historic Site Learn about the nation's 33rd president by taking a ranger-led tour of the Truman home in Independence, Missouri . Admission is free but tickets ...
A map of the Oregon Trail, marking Independence. Harry S. Truman's Independence home, now part of the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site. Two important Civil War battles occurred at Independence: the first on August 11, 1862, when Confederate soldiers took control of the town, and the second in October 1864, which resulted in a Union ...
The National Park Service (NPS), a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior, administers the National Historic Landmark program. The NPS is responsible for determining which sites meet the criteria for designation or withdrawal as an NHL as well as identifying potential candidates for the program, through theme studies.
Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1] There are 380 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 4 National Historic Landmarks and 1 National Historic Site.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site was the first place to be preserved as a national historic site, created by Secretary Harold L. Ickes's secretarial order on March 17, 1938. [9] It had followed his designation of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in 1935; many historic sites in the National Park System continue to be protected ...