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Centennial Site
Ulysses S. Grant Cottage State Historic Site
Rt. 9 to Mt. McGregor Road
Wilton, NY(518) 587-8277
http://saints.css.edu/mkelsey/cottage.html
President Ulysses S. Grant and family stayed here when he wrote his Personal Memoirs, widely considered to be one of the finest first-person narratives of the Civil War. Period furnishings along with some of Grant's personal possessions allow you to travel back to 1885 and view the cottage just as Grant left it.
On April 23, 1900, as governor of New York, Theodore Roosevelt signed an appropriations bill for the maintenance and improvement of Grant cottage, making it a Future State Historic Site. Four days later, on the 88th anniversary of Grant's birth, Roosevelt delivered an address on the president and Civil War general, who was his personal hero.
Grant cottage is open Memorial Day through Labor Day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. After Labor Day, it is open Saturdays and Sundays through Columbus Day.