The Grant Birthplace in Point Pleasant, Monroe Township,

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was the birthplace of U.S. President

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, who was born there in 1822. The home was built in 1817, and in 1821 Jesse Root Grant wed Hannah Simpson Grant (Ulysses's parents) and they moved into the home where they paid $2 a month rent. The future president lived in Point Pleasant for less than a year, as his family moved to Georgetown one month before his first birthday. The

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operates the site as a

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. Today it is furnished with items that once belonged to Grant, as well as a few period items. In 1998, the birthplace and several associated buildings were listed on the

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as a

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. The Grant Birthplace and surrounding areas have been found to be a historical archaeological site. As part of making the site

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-compliant, a small-scale construction project in the summer of 2010 involved the replacement of stone gutters at the site. Ohio

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staff archaeologists conducted a test excavation of some of the areas surrounding the gutters, discovering foundations of an 1810s tannery.Limited Archaeological Testing within the U. S. Grant's Birthplace and Grant Commemorative Sites Historic District in Point Pleasant, Monroe Township, Clermont County, for the Proposed Repair and Replacement of Gutters and Sidewalk along SR 232 and Back Street (CLE-SR 232-0.01 PID 87711)

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, 2011-11. Accessed 2014-02-13. Previous archaeological work in and around the Grant Birthplace included the retrieval of early nineteenth-century pottery from a small

midden A midden (also kitchen midden or shell heap) is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofact ...

being impacted by the replacement of a nearby bridge in 1984, as well as a

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of open areas in the birthplace grounds before the construction of a small building at the site in 2005; the latter project recovered only a couple of insignificant

lithic flake In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,"Andrefsky, W. (2005) ''Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis''. 2d Ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press and may also be refe ...

s from an unidentified prehistoric period.

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