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Grant's Farm. Horizontal wood engraving on a vertical page from Every Saturday, November 25, 1871, page 525, showing an old two-story house surrounded by trees. Grant's Farm is a historic farm, and long-standing landmark in Grantwood Village, Missouri, built by Ulysses S. Grant on land given to him and his wife by his father in law Frederick ...
Designated NHL. June 23, 1986. Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site is a 9.65-acre (3.91 ha) United States National Historic Site located 10 mi (16 km) southwest of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, within the municipality of Grantwood Village, Missouri. The site, also known as White Haven, commemorates the life, military career and presidency ...
Grantwood Village is home to two major attractions: the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site (White Haven) and Grant's Farm. Most of the village, including Grant's Farm, was once part of the larger plantation owned by Mrs. Grant's family. The farm itself was purchased by August Anheuser Busch, Sr., and is the ancestral home to family members ...
Adolphus Busch Orthwein was born on September 2, 1917, in St. Louis, Missouri. [ 1] His father was Percy Orthwein and his mother, Clara Busch. [ 1][ 2] His maternal great-grandfather, Adolphus Busch, was the founder of Anheuser-Busch. [ 1] He grew up at Grant's Farm in Grantwood Village, Missouri and summered at Red River Farm in Cooperstown ...
August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area is a 6,987-acre (28.28 km 2) conservation area that is owned and managed by the Missouri Department of Conservation.Located in St. Charles County, Missouri, the land was purchased by the Department of Conservation with help from Alice Busch, the wife of August Anheuser Busch, Sr., in 1947 from the U.S. Government.
Springwood, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Hyde Park, New York home. The Kennedy Compound, John F. Kennedy's Hyannis Port, Massachusetts home. La Casa Pacifica, Richard Nixon's San Clemente, California home. Walker's Point, George H. W. Bush's Kennebunkport, Maine home. This is a list of notable homes where presidents resided with their families ...
Princeton Heights is an older South St. Louis residential neighborhood. The name "Princeton" came from the old deeds from the neighborhood named Princeton Place Subdivision or Addition. Its outer edge on the west is rather closely paralleled by the River des Peres drainage works, whose valley creates a general downward slope to the west over ...
The Platte Purchase was a land acquisition in 1836 by the United States government from American Indian tribes of the region. It comprised lands along the east bank of the Missouri River and added 3,149 square miles (8,156 km 2) to the northwest corner of the state of Missouri. This expansion of the slave state of Missouri was in violation of ...