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Reply To: | BP - "Preservationists shouldn't be neat freaks." -- Mary D |
Date: | Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:24:20 -0400 |
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From the National Park Service morning report Almanac for Sunday, July
23--
"On this date in 1885, Ulysses S. Grant died at Mt. McGregor, New
York, four days after completing his memoirs."
I just checked with the New York SHPO. They said that most of Mt.
McGregor is now a med/min security prison, surrounded by razor wire.
The person I talked to said she hadn't really looked to see whether
anything historic survived on the prison grounds. The cottage where
Grant died is still there and open to the publlic (you have to go
through the prison grounds, showing IDs and leaving license plate
number, etc.). The site is small and the house modest, but it
apparently has a lovely view.
It's close to Saratoga. Since I'm going to be up in the Adirondacks
over Labor Day, I may go down to visit. I find the story about Grant
essentially staying alive to finish the memoirs that he hoped
(accurately, as it turn out) would support his family after his death
absolutely haunting. Will be happy to report back.
Marilyn
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