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Buchanan’s Birthplace State Park

 
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This monument marks the place our fifteenth president, James Buchanan was born, in 1791; at his parent’s trading post, Stony Batter, in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania.
 
 
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This is one of those just because stops, not something I would have gone out of my way to see; however, once we arrived, I certainly learned a great deal about President Buchanan, and was happy for the detour. Our only president to be born in Pennsylvania, Buchanan spent 42 years in public service; never having lost an election, believing only law to be his master. He was an assemblyman, a member of the House of Representatives, Foreign Minister to Russia, under President Jackson, a United States Senator, the Secretary of State, for President Polk, Foreign Minister to Great Britain under President Pierce, and finally President of the United States. The monument was conceived and financed by Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston, the President’s niece, who acted as his First Lady, as he never married. It is 38 feet square and 31 feet high, and made from local stones. Mrs. Johnston, upon her death, not only set aside the funds for this monument, but she left her collection of art, to the “National Art Gallery”, which did not exist, thus the National Museum of American Art, a part of today’s Smithsonian, needed to be created.

 

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Solid Construction!

 
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Remnants of a nearby building

“The incorruptible statesman whose walk was upon the mountain ranges of law.”

 
   

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