Dolley Todd House (Dolley Madison) is maintained by NPS in Philadelphia, as is Julia Dent Grant’s childhood home in St. Louis and Bess Truman’s home in Independence.
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Other sites associated with First Ladies are preserved by private historical trusts- as are Presidential sites from before the Presidential Records Act. Some of these include Abigail Adams, Emily Donelson (niece of Andrew Jackson), Mary Todd Lincoln, Lucy Hayes, Edith Wilson, and Maime Eisenhower.
The list above isn’t exhaustive. Again- we can use more! But we could also bring more visibility to the sites that already do exist and help drive visitors their way so that people see the value in investing more in women’s history.
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