Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site | |
U.S. National Historic Site | |
Location | Greeneville, Tennessee |
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Coordinates | 36°9′30″N 82°50′6″W / 36.15833°N 82.83500°W |
Built | 1830 |
Architect | War Department |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
Visitation | 51,189 (2019)[2] |
Website | Andrew Johnson National Historic Site |
NRHP reference No. | 66000073 [1] |
Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
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16th Vice President of the United States
17th President of the United States
Vice presidential and Presidential campaigns
Post-presidency
Family
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Andrew Johnson National Historic Site is a
The cemetery also includes the interments of Johnson's wife,
Today
Today, the site totals 16 acres in area, and has three separate units. These units are the Andrew Johnson Visitor Complex, the Andrew Johnson Homestead, and the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery. Visitors receive a copy of the admission ticket to Johnson's impeachment hearings; every year on May 26, visitors vote on whether or not Johnson should have been removed from office.[4][5]
The Andrew Johnson Visitor Complex consists of the visitor center, the museum, and Andrew Johnson's tailor shop. The visitor center shows a 13.5 minute film about Johnson and his time in Greeneville. The one-story/one room tailor shop remains much as it was in Andrew Johnson's day. It is surrounded by a memorial building built by the state of Tennessee in 1923 to prevent wear and tear upon the tailor shop.[6][7] For kids, they can become Junior Rangers by completing a small activity book.
Andrew Johnson's first Greeneville home is located across the Street from the visitor complex.
The Andrew Johnson Homestead is maintained to look as it did when Andrew Johnson and his wife lived in the domicile from 1869 to 1875. Johnson had purchased the home in 1851. During the war years, the house was occupied by soldiers. It required renovations when the family returned to the house after Johnson's leaving the presidency in 1869. It is a
The Andrew Johnson National Cemetery was established in 1906. Andrew Johnson owned 23 acres outside Greeneville on Signal Hill. Upon his death in 1875, Johnson was buried on the property. On June 5, 1878, the city erected a 28-foot (8.5 m)-tall marble statue in his honor by Johnson's grave. The monument was considered so dominant that the hill's name was changed to "Monument Hill". Johnson's daughter
See also
- List of residences of presidents of the United States
- Presidential memorials in the United States
- Greeneville Historic District (Greeneville, Tennessee)
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report". National Park Service.
- ^ Andrew Johnson National Historic Site Administrative History, National Park Service, 2008, pp. 121-122
- ^ NRHP form pg.2
- ^ "Visitor Impeachment Vote Tally - Andrew Johnson National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.
- ^ NRHP form pg.2,3
- ^ "Andrew Johnson National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.
- ^ NRHP form pg.37
- ^ "Plan Your Visit - Andrew Johnson National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.
- ^ NRHP form pg.24,31
External links
- National Park Service: Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
- Andrew Johnson Historic Site - article from Tennessee History for Kids
- "Life Portrait of Andrew Johnson", from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits, broadcast from the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, July 9, 1999
- Andrew Johnson Bicentennial, 1808-2008. Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Miller, Zachary A. (August 2022). False Idol: The Memory of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction in Greeneville, Tennessee 1869-2022 (Master of Arts thesis). Eastern Tennessee State University. Paper 4096.