The Places of Presidents



Follow this growing collection of video pilgrimages (travel logs, reminiscences, and “historical musings”) – through the diverse landscape of America visited in the last thirty years. Discover some of the fascinating characteristics of what forged the men who helped forge our nation...

Presidential Sites



“Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.”

George Washington

September 14, 1775

(Courtesy: MtVernon.org – December, 2021)

Title	Historic Places Visited	President	Founded	Toured
The Man on a White Horse	“Mount Vernon” – Home and Museum Fairfax County, Virginia	George Washington	1758	May 2017
America’s Philosophe	“Montecello” – Presidential Home Albemarle County, Virginia	Thomas Jefferson	1809	1995
“Old Hickory“	“The Hermitage” – Museum and Plantation Nashville, Tennessee	Andrew Jackson	1889	February 2017
“Old Tippecanoe”	Presidential Tomb North Bend, Ohio	William Henry Harrison	1841	June 2018
An Honest Man from Illinois	Presidential Library and Museum Springfield, Illinois	Abraham Lincoln	2005	April 2009

“…that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth..”

A. Lincoln

Title	Historic Places Visited	President	Founded	Toured
The General from Point Pleasant	Dennison House – Home and Museum Gelena, Illinois	Ulysses S. Grant	1904	July 2018
“Midwest Men” – Hayes	“Spiegel Grove” – Library, Museums, Park and Home Fremont, Ohio	Rutherford B. Hayes	1916	August 2015
“Midwest Men” – Garfield	“Lawnfield” – Garfield Home and Museum Mentor, Ohio Monument and Mausoleum Cleveland, Ohio	James Garfield	1980	October 2017
“Midwest Men” – Harrison	Presidential Historic Site Harrison Home and Library	Benjamin Harrison	1875	June 2018
In A Club of One	“Saxton-McKinley House”– National First Ladies Library Canton, Ohio	First Ladies of the United States	2000
“Midwest Men” – McKinley	McKinley Presidential Center – Children’s Museum and National Monument Park Canton, Ohio	William McKinley	1963	May 2017

“Our disagreements are policies; our agreements are principals.”

William McKinley

Title	Historic Places Visited	Presidents	Founded	Toured
“Midwest Men” – Taft	Presidential Museum – Birthplace, and Boyhood Home Cincinnati, Ohio	William Howard Taft	1820	June 2018
A Harding Reboot	Presidential Center – Harding Home and Monument Marion, Ohio	William G. Harding	2019	October 2018
“Silent Cal“	Calvin Coolidge Presidential Center Family Home and Village Plymouth, Vermont	Calvin Coolidge	1894	August 2020

“The slogan: ‘Press On’ has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.”

Calvin Coolidge

Title	Historic Places Visited	President	Founded	Toured
Hoover’s New Suit	Hebert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum Hoover Family Home & Village West Branch, Iowa	Herbert Hoover	1962	June 2015
Gentleman on the Hudson	“Springwood” – Roosevelt Estate Presidential Library and Museum Hyde Park, New York	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	1941	March 2014
Independence’s True Man	Presidential Library and Museum Truman Home Independence, Missouri	Henry s. Truman	1957	November 2013
A Kansas Salute	Presidential Library – Eisenhower Family Home & Presidential Campus Abilene, Kansas	Dwight David Eisenhower	1962	November 2013
Camelot Interrupted	Presidential Library and Museum Columbia Point, Massuchusetts	John F. Kennedy	1979	November 2014

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

J.F. Kennedy

Title	Historic Places Visited	President	Founded	Toured
L.B.J.	Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Library and Museum Austen, Texas	Lyndon Baynes Johnson	1971	March 2014
From the Evening of a Splendid Day	Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Yorba Linda, California	Richard M. Nixon	1990	March 2019
The Episcopalian from Grand Rapids	Gerald Ford Presidential Library and Museum Grand Rapids, Michigan	Gerald R. Ford	1981	March 2009
Farmer of Souls	James Carter Presidential Library, Museum and Peace Center Atlanta, Georgia	Jimmy Carter	1984	March 2013
An American Star	Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Simi Valley, California	Ronald W. Reagan	1988	March 2019

“America’s best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.”

Ronald Reagan

Title	Historic Places Visited	President	Founded	Toured
Forty One	George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum Bush School of Public Service at Texas A&M College Station, Texas	George H.W. Bush	1997	March 2014
Bill	William Clinton Presidential Library and Museum Little Rock, Arkansas	William Jefferson Clinton	2001	September 2011
“43”	George W. Bush Presidential Center Dallas, Texas	George W. Bush	2013	March 2014

“There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.“

Barrack Obama



Title	Historic Places Visited	President	Founded	Toured
A First Among Equals	(Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum) Chicago, Illinois	Barack Hussien Obama	2020
The Donald	(Donald Trump Library and Museum)	Donald Trump
Grandfather to a Nation	(Joseph Biden Presidential Library and Museum)	Joseph R. Biden

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action.”

George Washington

December 23, 1783

(Courtesy: MtVernon.org – December, 2021)