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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Herbert Hoover National Historic SiteLarge but simple white stone slabs mark two graves.
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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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Rows of wooden pupils' desks.  

Did You Know?
The West Branch Schoolhouse was built in 1853 making it the oldest building at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. The town's Quakers also used the one-room building as their first meetinghouse.
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Last Updated: October 24, 2007 at 13:15 EST