We ended out the year with another little
Presidential Day Trip - this time, to Pineville, NC, and the birthsite
of President James K. Polk...
There is a memorial to President Polk honoring this land as where his family's home, the place where he was born, once stood...
Though the structures on the site are not actually from his family, they are authentic and of the correct time period...
The little ones loved going inside to tour them and running around to explore the outside of the homestead, as well!
We learned that they didn't actually keep animals in barns, but that barns were used to store their equipment.
The
museum showed a great movie that taught us more about B's most
favorite (who knows why, but that he is #11) President...
On
the way out of town, we stopped a the possible NC birthsite of
President Andrew Jackson. I believe that it is mostly accepted that he
was born in SC, but since the borders were not so clearly defined and NC
claims him as well.
Awhile back, Hubby took both B and L to the SC site, so with today's stop, B has officially been to BOTH of President Andrew Jackson's possible birthsites - phew!
