A Place Called Home / ~150 Years Ago—Petersburg

A Place Called Home / ~150 Years Ago—Petersburg (HM2AUN)

Location: St. Louis, MO 63123 St. Louis County
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Country: United States of America
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N 38° 33.11', W 90° 21.081'

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A Place Called Home

The Dent and Grant families spent many enjoyable years on this plantation while their children were growing up. While a few of the enslaved people lived in the house, most were housed in log cabins behind the house.

Timeline
1816-1888

1816 · William L. Long begins construction of two story log structure
1818 · Theodore & Anne Lucas Hunt purchase property
1820 · Fredrick T. and Ellen Wrenshall Dent purchase property
1843 · Ulysses S. Grant makes first visit
1854 · Ulysses and Julia Grant live on property with 4 children
1860 · Grant family moves to Galena, Illinois
1865 · Ulysses and Julia begin purchasing sections of the property
1885 · Grant transfers property to William Vanderbilt
1888 · Luther Conn purchases property
1816-1864 · Enslaved African Americans on the property

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150 Years Ago - Petersburg

From the summer of 1864 through the spring of 1865 General Ulysses S. Grant lived in Virginia near the confluence of the Appomattox and James Rivers, first in a tent and then a two room cabin. The front room was used as office and meeting room, the back room as living space. Julia and their son Jesse moved in with him in January 1865.

Lt.



Col. Adam Badeau Remembrance of General Ulysses S. Grant at Petersburg.


"...Sometimes the door remained open, and the candle flickered in its iron frame. I can see him {Grant} now in his light blue soldier's overcoat and his broad-brimmed hat, cigar in mouth, leaning over the table and writing an order to one of his great generals... One or two maps always lay on his table, and as he got news from Sherman on his great marches, or a report from Sheridan after a victory in the Valley, he often entered to look for the exact spot where the manoeuvres [sic] or the battle had occurred."
Lt. Col. Adam Badeau to Russell Thayer, chief engineer and superintendent. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February, 12, 1889
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HM NumberHM2AUN
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Placed ByUlysses S. Grant National Historic Site
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Monday, August 27th, 2018 at 8:03am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)15S E 730809 N 4270371
Decimal Degrees38.55183333, -90.35135000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 33.11', W 90° 21.081'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 33' 6.6" N, 90° 21' 4.86" W
Driving DirectionsGoogle Maps
Area Code(s)314, 636
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 9060 Whitehaven Dr, St. Louis MO 63123, US
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