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President Grant’s Memorial Flowers Have Survived for 136 Years

Read about the recent discovery that former President and Civil War General Grant’s memorial flowers have survived in an Upstate New York cottage for 136 years without much protection.

The floral arrangements that were on display at President Grant’s August 1885 memorial on Mount McGregor in New York remain in the cottage where he died to this day. Courtesy of Grant Cottage Historic Site