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Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site

Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site

609 S. Lamar Ave.
Denison TX 75021
903/465-8908
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Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site features the modest two-story frame house in the railroad town of Denison where Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in 1890. Eisenhower's father worked for the Railroad and the birthplace contains family possessions and period antiques demonstrating the lifestyle of a late 19th century working family. The park also encompasses some 6 acres of scenic woods and creek bottomland intersected by an abandoned rail track turned into a hiking path. the visitor center is a historic structure filled with hundreds of items relating to Eisenhower and his role in America and world history.