Eisenhower National Historic Site

Eisenhower National Historic Site is the presidential and retirement home of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Purchased by the Eisenhowers in 1950, the farm served as a presidential retreat, a meeting place for world leaders, and as the temporary White House in times of illness. Today, the site remains largely unchanged from those Cold War years when the President proudly gave each visiting dignitary a tour of the farm's cattle operation in his golf cart. Black Angus still graze in the pastures, Eisenhower's farm equipment is on display in the barns, and the home retains its original furnishings. Eisenhower grew up in Abilene, Kansas, in a family of modest means, left in 1911 for a tuition-free education at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, commanded Camp Colt at Gettysburg in 1918, led the Allied invasion of Northern Europe on June 6, 1944 after earlier commanding the invasion of North Africa, was elected president in 1952 and re-elected in 1956, and spent his retirement years at the Gettysburg farm with his wife, Mamie, pursuing his hobbies, writing his memoirs, and managing his cattle herd until his death in 1969.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States