The dramatic stone home on a hill north of Chillicothe, Ohio,
was the home of Thomas and Eleanor Swearingen Worthington and
their ten children. Sometimes referred to “as the father of Ohio
statehood,” Thomas Worthington (1773-1827) was one of Ohio’s
first U.S. senators (1803-1807) and there he lobbied for Ohio’s
statehood. The museum is on the site of the fortification built
by the Ohio Company of Associates, as their headquarters, in
1788 when they founded the first organized American settlement
in the Northwest Territory. The birthplace of Ulysses S. Grant
is a restored one-story, three-room cottage, built in 1817. The
Grant Boyhood Home in Georgetown was the home of Ulysses S.
Grant, 18th president of the United States, from 1823, when
Grant was one year old, until 1839, when he left to attend West
Point. The schoolhouse of Ulysses S. Grant was built in 1829,
and consisted of only one room at that time. William Henry
Harrison, ninth president of the United States, was born in
Virginia, but as an adult he s