This three hundred sixty-acre park honors Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, and encompasses property that once belonged to his uncle James Crawford. After Andrew Jackson's father died, he and his mother lived with Crawford and the Crawford family during his youth. When James Crawford's land was surveyed in 1768, he owned one hundred ten acres on the north side of nearby Waxhaw Creek. Born on March 15, 1767, to Elizabeth Hutchinson and Andrew Jackson, Sr., not long after his family emigrated from Northern Ireland to the Carolinas, Jackson spent his boyhood in the South Carolina backcountry and the Waxhaws, where his experiences during the Revolutionary War and life among hard-working, self-reliant settlers helped shape the determination and toughness later associated with "Old Hickory" for his military exploits in the War of 1812. From these humble beginnings, he rose through distinguished military and public service to become the seventh President of the United States. Reflecting his early life in the Waxhaws and the frontier community of Tennessee, Jackson vigorously promoted mass democracy, and his presidency became symbolic of the self-made common man. He is especially remembered for his strong commitment to the idea that Americans were first and foremost citizens of a united nation rather than of separate states. After serving two terms as President from 1829 to 1837, he spent his final years at his home in Nashville, where he died on June 8, 1845.