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A Place Called Home:
The view up the hill appears much as it did in 1875, when President Ulysses S. Grant was planning to retire here. More than thirty years earlier, in 1843, he first visited White Haven as a young second lieutenant. In between those years, Grant and White Haven underwent vast changes in response to the turbulent issues that divided and forever altered the nation. Now experience that past as you explore the Grants' White Haven.
The slave plantation consisted of some 850 acres. At the center of the estate was the main house where Colonel Frederick Dent lived with his wife, Ellen, and their seven children.
Colonel Dent was a prosperous St. Louis merchant. He purchased the property located twelve miles from St. Louis in 1820 as a summer home, a haven from the heat and pollution of the city. |