Description: This photographic postcard features a color image of Ulysses Grant's birthplace, located in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The wood cabin, painted white, has two windows on either side of the front door. A tall brick chimney, also white, stands on the cabin's right side. A white fence extends along the front of the cabin, and a stone walkway leads to the front steps. A sign identifying the site is located on the lawn. The cabin was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888 and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards it was moved to Goodale Park (Columbus, Ohio) as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus. It remained there until 1936, when the Ohio Historical Society, under a legislative order, returned it to its original site in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The dismantling of the badly deteriorated cabin for relocation occurred in February 1936 at the Columbus Fairgrounds. The cabin was restored with period furniture and opened to public tours. The Grant Birthplace memorial is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant (Clermont County), just off of U.S. Route 52, about five miles east of New Richmond. Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a company in Galena and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, President Abraham Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. In 1864 Grant became lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. He served as U.S. president from 1869-1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05762
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Historic preservation; Historic sites Ohio; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Photographic postcards; Birthplaces
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Picture postcard features a view of "Maple Corner," the Hopley Family home in Bucyrus, Ohio, ca. 1904. Handwritten symbols mark various sections of the image, and a corresponding key is written in the message section of the postcard. The key identifies certain areas or rooms in the house. A handwritten date reads "Chicago Jan. 7 1904'; the signature reads. "Love, Kate." The signator likely is Mary Catherine Hopley (1857-1848), called Kate, who studied painting and writing at Cooper Union in New York City and who moved to Chicago in the early 1900s. In Chicago she was a staff writer for "The Temple Appeal," the official publication of the Willard Temple, a temperance organization. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06074
Subjects: Postcards; Photographic postcards; Families--Ohio; Houses; Family history
Places: Bucyrus (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio)