Explore the Grant Trail for the Grant Bicentennial

For Ulysses S. Grant’s 200th Birthday you might want to drive the Land of Grant Trail in Ohio. Here is a link where you can find out how to use the virtual guide to sites sites associated with Grant’s birth and early life. The trail has seventeen stops. Sites include Grant’s birthplace, his childhood home, his school, and the family tannery. This is from the organizers:

Download this free self-guided tour and explore 17 historical sites including his birthplace, boyhood home and more. Check-in to each stop along the trail and learn how his childhood cultivated the character of young Ulysses S. Grant that would catapult him to West Point and the White House.President Ulysses S. Grant is one of the most significant historical figures in United States history. He was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio and his boyhood years were spent in Georgetown, Ohio. A graduate of West Point Military Academy, Grant was one of the most successful military leaders of all time.

Join us at one of several events celebrating the 200th birthday of President Ulysses S. Grant.

Check-in to all 17 stops along the trail and receive a special bicentennial Grant collectable coin and a certificate of competition.

 

Click here to see what’s included!

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