Andrew Jackson, South Carolinian
Columbia, SC: Lancaster Co. Historical Com, 1963. 64, wraps, illus., map, footnotes, bibliography, small rough spot on front cover, cover and spine edges worn. Rust marks inside front cover and in top margin through title page. Inscribed by the author. The author was inaugurated as president of Lander College on May 21, 1966. Inside the small museum, visitors can see a bed similar to the one that Jackson shared with his poor pioneer family in the "Living With Relatives" exhibit, and the sword hilt stolen from the Andrew Jackson statue in New Orleans in the 1950s. There's an exhibit about Jackson's battle-scarred body, and an impressive hunk of his actual hair. What you won't find is any suggestion that he could have been born anywhere other than South Carolina. There's also no hint of the modern-day reexamination of Jackson's legacy, the suggestion that he may have been a bad guy. South Carolina's birthplace monument praises him as, "Brave, Truculent, Noble, Able, Honest." The sign at the Jackson statue calls him "champion of the common man" and "a larger-than-life hero." South Carolina didn't go to all this trouble for a flawed President; Andrew Jackson will always be praiseworthy here. The author evaluated the birth claim evidence that Andrew Jackson was born at sea, in Virginia, West Virginia, outside the United States, in North Carolina, and concluded that he was born in the Crawford-Wren house in South Carolina. The location of that log cabin has brewed controversy for nearly three centuries. "Some people visit [saying] he was born in North Carolina," said Laura Ledford, Ranger at Andrew Jackson State Park. Ledford says Jackson's mother stayed on James Crawford's plantation, which is now Andrew Jackson State Park. It's where most historians say Jackson was born and raised with a front-row seat to the American Revolution. It's after Jackson's death that family members began the debate where exactly he was born. Ledford says the story began from one of those said "His mother told her that she was present at the birth and the birth occurred at Uncle George and Aunt Peggy's house over in Union County, North Carolina," said Ledford. There's been a rivalry between North and South Carolina, even though Jackson wrote to James Witherspoon of Lancaster, that he was born in South Carolina. Jackson even approved an 1825 map of where his place of birth is located. Condition: fair to good.
Keywords: Andrew Jackson, U.S. Presidents, Jackson Birthplace, South Carolina, North Carolina, Birth Certificate, Crawford-Wren House, Lancaster County, Old Hickory
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