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View search results on mapTwo miles further up Little Cottonwood Canyon from the famous Mormon records vault is another underground storage facility, which is privately owned and operated by Perpetual Storage Incorporated. It was built after the Mormon vault, in 1968, taking advantage of the same monolithic and moisture free rock structure, and is marketed as a highly secure storage facility.
This AT&T facility is a typical large underground equipment vault. It is located along Interstate 15, between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, at the Rasor Road exit. The highway here follows a utility corridor, which includes major coaxial communication cables operated by AT&T. This is one of a few vaults on this stretch of desert highway between the two cities. Below the surface is 8,200 square feet of space, mostly in one large room, with a 20 foot ceiling.
This AT&T site atop a mountain near Harpers Ferry was built by AT&T in the 1960s. The station is part of the company’s communications infrastructure, and especially the part of it related to military communications. It is similar to four other facilities on the mid-Atlantic region known as Project Offices, which had large, concrete, parabolic tropospheric communication antennas, and an underground bunker of at least several thousand square feet, with a drive-in entrance.
This AT&T site atop a mountain north of Charlottesville, Virginia was built by AT&T in the 1960s. The station is part of the company’s communications infrastructure, and especially the part of it related to military communications. It is similar to four other facilities in the region known as Project Offices. These sites had several antennas, including large concrete paraboloids used for tropospheric communications.
This AT&T site south of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was built by AT&T in the 1960s. The station is part of the company’s communications infrastructure, and especially the part of it related to military communications. It is the southernmost of four other facilities in the region known as Project Offices. These sites had several antennas, including large concrete paraboloids used for tropospheric communications.
In 1808, Abraham Lincoln’s father bought a property called Sinking Spring Farm, and built a cabin next to the spring, where his son, Abraham was born a year later. The property is now a National Historical Park with a visitor center about the revered 16th president of the USA. The main feature at the site is a Romanesque memorial, with 56 steps, one for each year of the president’s life, built on the location of his original birthplace cabin.
In 1816, the Lincoln family moved for a second time, to a farm in Indiana, near Lincoln City (though it wasn’t called that then). This site is now the Lincoln Boyhood National Monument, and is also operated by the National Park Service. The Lincoln family lived there until 1830, so this is where Abraham Lincoln, who would become the nation’s 16th president, spent most of his youth, from age seven to 21.
After a few years in various jobs, including working as a surveyor, postmaster, and a clerk in a general store in New Salem, Illinois, Lincoln moved to Springfield, Illinois, to practice law. This town, the state capitol, would be his hometown for the rest of his life.
Andrew Johnson, who became the 17th president, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in a small outbuilding, located behind the roadside inn and tavern where his parents worked. What was thought to be the structure has been preserved (though its provenance is contested). In 1974 it was moved to Mordecai Historic Park, an unrelated historic area established to preserve the Mordecai Mansion, the oldest mansion in town still located on its original foundation.
Andrew Johnson lived in Greeneville for most of his life, and the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site preserves many of the buildings significant to the 17th president.
Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the USA, was born in a small house at Point Pleasant, on Ohio’s frontier, in 1822. His father, who worked in a nearby tannery, rented it for $2 per month. The birthplace cabin was Grant’s home for just a year. After that, his family moved on. Though many have come from around the country to see it, this house, too, has seen a lot of the country.
Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the USA, graduated from West Point in 1843 and began the military career that made him famous, starting with the Mexican War, and ending with the Civil War. He married Julia Dent in 1848, and lived for some years with her at her father’s plantation near St. Louis, known as White Haven. Today ten acres of the plantation are owned and managed by the National Park Service as the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site.
After Ulysses S. Grant’s second term as president ended in 1877, he and his wife toured the world for two years, then returned to the United States, living in Manhattan, and to business investments that did not do so well. Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1884, he headed to a mountain cabin north of Saratoga Spring, New York, to write his memoirs, which his friend, Mark Twain, offered to publish with 75% of the profits going to Grant, to help him with his debts.
President Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb in Manhattan was completed in 1897, and is managed by the National Park Service. It is the largest mausoleum in the country. His wife Julia, the first First Lady to publish her memoirs, lies next to him.
Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the USA. His parents moved to Delaware, Ohio, from Vermont, and built the first brick house in town, where Hayes was born in 1822. They moved to another house in town a year later. Being in a downtown location, the home was later occupied by businesses such as a furniture store, before it burned down in 1910. A gas station was built on the lot in 1920, and remains there 100 years later.
Rutherford B. Hayes, who would become the 19th president of the USA, inherited Spiegel Grove from his uncle, who had built it as a summer retreat. Hayes was elected President in 1876, and after serving one term he returned to Spiegel Grove and doubled the size of the house to 30 rooms, with additions for a library and indoor plumbing. He died here in 1893, at the age of 70. The family gave the property to the state of Ohio, and funded a museum and library on the grounds.
In 1830, James Garfield’s parents bought a 50-acre plot of land 12 miles from Cleveland for $100, and built a 20 x 30 foot cabin, in which their son James, who would grow up to become the 20th president of the USA, and the last of the “log cabin” presidents, was born the following year. This cabin was his home for the next 28 years, though during this time he spent some years away at college.
Born in a log cabin near Cleveland, James Garfield, who would later become the 20th president of the USA, moved into this house in Mentor, Ohio, 20 miles up the lake shore from Cleveland, in 1876. This is the property Garfield became most associated with, as here he campaigned for the presidency in 1880. Over the years Garfield expanded the house from 9 to 20 rooms, and turned a small outbuilding into his campaign headquarters.
James A. Garfield, the 20th president, died in office in 1881, after serving for only two months. An elaborate mausoleum in Cleveland, near his home and birthplace, was finished in 1890, in Lake View Cemetery. Three other presidents were at the dedication ceremony: current President Benjamin Harrison; former President Rutherford Hayes; and future President William McKinley, who would be felled by an assassin himself, eleven years later.
Though Chester Arthur was not actually born here, this site was thought to be his birthplace for years. A large granite monument was installed by the state in 1903. Its dedication was attended by a long list of dignitaries, who had come from far away to this remote spot five miles north of Fairfield, Vermont, near the Canadian border. Carved in stone are the words “On this spot stood the cottage where was born Chester A.
Chester Arthur, the 21st President of the USA, was probably born in Fairfield, Vermont, near the Canadian border (though some say he was actually born on the Canadian side) and probably in 1829 (though his own tomb, in Albany, says 1830). Either way, his parents took him on their peripatetic existence around Vermont and the upper Hudson Valley, in towns like Hoosick, North Pownal, Ballston Spa, Schaghticoke, and Schenectady.
Grover Cleveland was born in 1837 in the Presbyterian parsonage in Caldwell, New Jersey, where his father was the minister in a church. The building has been restored to its 1837 appearance, and has a small museum inside. Cleveland lived there until he was four years old, when his family moved to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. His father became the pastor at a church in Fayetteville in 1841, where he spent much of his childhood.
Benjamin Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, in 1833, in a 16-room mansion on a farm established by his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, who was the ninth President of the United States. The house burned down in 1858, and the riverbank was reengineered, with highways, railways, and house lots. Nothing remains to mark the site except a plaque that celebrates it as the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison.
William McKinley, the 25th president, was born at this site in 1843 in Niles, Ohio, and lived here for nine years, until his family moved away. Afterwards the house was occupied by various families and businesses, until the property was bought in 1890 by a bank. Instead of demolishing the home, it was cut in half, with one half moved to the back of the lot, and the other half moved to an amusement park, and the bank was built on the former house site.
In 1909, President Taft signed an act to create a memorial for William McKinley (the 25th president who was shot and killed in 1901), in his birthplace town of Niles, Ohio. The building was designed by McKim, Mead and White, and built on the site of a schoolhouse McKinley attended as a child, near his birthplace. It opened in 1917, with President Taft in attendance at the dedication.
William McKinley, the 25th president, was shot and killed in 1901, six months into his second term, in Buffalo, New York, where he was attending the Pan American Exposition. His body was displayed in Washington DC, then brought to Canton, Ohio, where he lived, and where it was reinterred in the McKinley National Memorial in 1907.
Theodore Roosevelt, who would become the 26th president of the USA, was born at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan in 1858, in a house very similar to the one that is there now, which is a replica. The house was originally built in 1848 by his grandfather, Cornelius Roosevelt, who was one of the wealthiest people in the city at that time. He built two adjacent brownstones here as wedding presents for his sons (Theodore’s father and uncle).
William Howard Taft, who would become the 27th president of the USA, was born in 1857, in this house in Mount Auburn, Ohio, near Cincinnati. His father, a prominent lawyer, had bought the house in 1851, installed plumbing, and expanded it to 18 rooms. Taft lived there until he went away to college. He later returned to Cincinnati, studied law, opened up a practice in town, and got into politics.
Woodrow Wilson, who would become the nations 28th president, was born in 1856 in this parsonage in Staunton, Virginia. His parents had moved into the house the year before, when his father became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in town, and they moved away from Staunton in 1858. Efforts to preserve the birthplace began after he died, in 1924. The Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation was established, and purchased the home in 1938.
After serving two terms as the President of the United States (1913-1921) Woodrow Wilson retired, and lived here, in a house off Embassy Row in Washington DC, in failing health, for the last three years of his life. He died in 1924 in his bedroom upstairs, and is interred in Washington National Cathedral, just up the road. His widow, Edith, who had first found this house for them, lived there until she died, in 1961.