Saturday, May 26, 2007

GENERAL GRANT'S BIRTHPLACE.
WE present our readers on this page a sketch of the birth-place of Lieutenant-General U. S. GRANT, at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. The house in which the distinguished General was born has undergone no changes, with the exception of a new roof. The weather-boarding gives evidence of age in the numerous crevices which are apparent in our illustration.
Point Pleasant is on the Ohio River, twenty-five miles above Cincinnati. With the exception of being the place of General GRANT'S nativity the village has little to distinguish it from any other.
Indian Creek runs close to the house a short distance before entering the river. The house was built before the General's father came into possession.

Our sketch is from a photograph taken by Mr. JAMES GOODWIN, of Fort Wayne, Indiana
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