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Herbert Hoover National Historic SiteWooden-topped pupils' desks furnish the inside of a one-room schoolhouse.
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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
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"My grandparents and my parents came here in a covered wagon. In this community they toiled and worshipped God. They lie buried on your hillside. The most formative years of my boyhood were spent here. My roots are in this soil. This cottage where I was born is physical proof of the unbounded opportunity of American life."

Herbert Hoover

 
A small, white, frame cottage in the spring with a pink-flowering shrub in the foreground.
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Herbert Hoover was born in this two-room cottage in 1874.
Pupils' desks, part of the Schoolhouse furnishings.
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Bright orange milkweed flowers amid green prairie grasses.
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Browse contemporary scenes and pictures of the National Historic Site.
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Black-and-white portrait photograph of one girl and two boys.
Hoover Genealogy
An abridged Hoover family tree, beginning with Herbert's parents.
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Hoover's birthplace as it appeared before restoration: a two-story white frame house.  

Did You Know?
Herbert Hoover's birthplace was a tourist attraction as early as 1928. Jennie Scellars, the house's owner, charged 10 cents for tours and set up a souvenir stand on her lawn.
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Last Updated: October 24, 2007 at 13:15 EST