White Haven referred to both the house and the estate, where, as on many large plantations, additional houses were built for family members and enslaved people. White residents gave their houses special names, while the enslaved people lived in one- or two-room dwellings simply called cabins. Julia's brother Louis built Wish-ton=Wish, a Native American word for whippoorwill, in 1848, and it served as a temporary home for Ulysses and Julia in 1855 and during their visits to St. Louis while Grant was president before fire destroyed it in 1873. In 1856, Ulysses built a house on 80 acres that Colonel Dent gave the Grants as a wedding gift, though no deed legalized the transfer. Julia disliked the crude log cabin, facetiously named Hardscrabble, and they lived there only three months before returning to the main house upon Mrs. Dent's death. That cabin is now located at Grant's Farm. A slave cabin from a neighboring farm is typical of cabins in the area, and documents indicate that as many as twelve slave cabins stood behind the main house, perhaps across the small creek in what is today Forest Haven subdivision. Later records suggest these cabins were demolished during Grant's ownership.