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AJHSHM_170601_001.JPG: Home of Andrew Johnson
17th President of the United States
Erected by Nolachuckey Chapter DAR, 1926
AJHSHM_170601_016.JPG: The Home of the 17th President
Andrew Johnson Patterson, son of Martha Johnson Patterson and grandson of President Andrew Johnson, was born and died in this house. To him and his loyal and devoted wife, Martha Barkley Patterson, the nation is indebted for their untiring efforts in preserving the last home of Andrew Johnson.
As joint heirs of Martha Johnson Patterson's estate, Andrew Johnson Patterson and wife contributed to the perpetuation of the name and career of Andrew Johnson. The intimate knowledge which they possessed of the furnishings and personalty of the 17th President assisted greatly in presenting an accurately restored Andrew Johnson home.
AJHSHM_170601_019.JPG: The Homestead Grounds
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
There are no written records describing the Homestead grounds as Andrew Johnson knew them from 1869 until 1875. The earliest descriptions of the landscape during that period come from the oral accounts of Andrew Johnson's descendants twenty-five years after his death.
A reporter for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper describes the Homestead grounds in 1865 before the Johnsons moved back in as follows: "As you pass along the pavement on Main Street, by looking into the lot you see several young apple trees, and in the spaces between them are potatoes growing. In the rear of the kitchen stands a small aspen shade-tree, and down there in the lower end of the lot is a grape vine, trained upon a trellis forming a pleasant bower. Scattered over the lot are a number of rose, currant, and gooseberry bushes. At the lower end of the lot and just outside stand two large weeping willows, and under their shade is a very beautiful spring . . . . "
Accordingly to family tradition, the weeping willow trees referred to in the 1865 article were planted by Andrew Johnson in the early 1850s. The trees originated from a cutting given to Johnson by Captain William Francis Lynch, U.S. Navy. Captain Lynch acquired the cutting from a willow tree near the grave of Napoleon, on the Island of St. Helena. The weeping willow trees that you see today are all descendants of those planted by Andrew Johnson.
AJHSHM_170601_027.JPG: Preserving the President's Legacy
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
" . . . I believe that my Father was the greatest man this country ever produced!"
- Martha Johnson Patterson
Three generations of Andrew Johnson's family devoted time and effort to preserve his memory and legacy. In 1906, the Johnson family's burial plot became the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery under the War Department. In 1926, the state of Tennessee enclosed Johnson's tailor shop and opened it to the public.
Margaret Johnson Patterson Bartlett – Andrew Johnson's great-granddaughter – lived here in Johnson's "Homestead" most of her life. In the late 1930s she traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his wife Eleanor, and numerous senators about preserving this house. Through the family's efforts, the National Cemetery, Tailor Shop, and Johnson's Homestead were finally added to the National Park system as Andrew Johnson Monument in 1942.
"When this bill comes before the Senate, will you give it your affirmative vote?"
-- Margaret Johnson Patterson Bartlett, during meetings with politicians in Washington, D.C.
AJHSHM_170601_033.JPG: In the late 1950s, National Park Service conservationists returned the Homestead's exterior to its appearance in 1869 when Andrew Johnson returned to Greeneville after serving as the 17th U.S. President. Many of Johnson's original furnishings and personal belongings are inside.
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2005_TN_JohnsonNHS_Home: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Home (3 photos from 2005)
1999_TN_JohnsonNHS_Home: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Home (3 photos from 1999)
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2005_TN_JohnsonNHS_VC: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Visitor Center (7 photos from 2005)
2017_TN_JohnsonNHS_VC: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Visitor Center (145 photos from 2017)
2005_TN_JohnsonNHS_NC: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- National Cemetery (3 photos from 2005)
2017_TN_JohnsonNHS_NC: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- National Cemetery (30 photos from 2017)
1999_TN_JohnsonNHS_NC: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS (11 photos from 1999)
2005_TN_JohnsonNHS_Etc: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Other (6 photos from 2005)
2017_TN_JohnsonNHS_Etc: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Other (8 photos from 2017)
1999_TN_JohnsonNHS_Early: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Early Home (3 photos from 1999)
2005_TN_JohnsonNHS_Early: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Early Home (14 photos from 2005)
2017_TN_JohnsonNHS_Early: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Early Home (104 photos from 2017)
2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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