Tuesday, June 9, 2009

travel correction


Ive wanted to fact check the birthplace of President Truman. While in Boston I had reminisced about my state travel count.
I remembered visiting when a kid, but I was way off of where it was. My Dad's wanderings and looking for the "biggest ball of string" took us all over and one stop was in Missouri. I think it was on our way to spend a couple of months in Alabama.


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Visit the birthplace home of the only Missourian ever elected President of the United States - Harry S Truman. Born May 8, 1884, in a downstairs bedroom of a small frame house in Lamar, Harry Truman was the son of John Anderson and Martha Ellen (Young) Truman.The Truman birthplace, which the family occupied until Harry was 11 months old, was built between 1880 and 1882. The Trumans purchased the 20- by 28-foot house as newlyweds in 1882 for $685. Visitors today can view its four downstairs rooms and two upstairs rooms, as well as the smokehouse, well and outhouse located in the back. The modest furnishings inside the house and the surrounding landscaping accurately represent a typical home of its style during the time the Trumans resided in Lamar. It has neither electricity nor indoor plumbing.

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