Pictures of the Andrew Johnson Historic Site

Andrew Johnson was born in North Carolina.  His father died when he was four and he was apprenticed as a tailor when very young.  He ran away from the tailor job when he was 15 and eventually settled in Greenville Tennessee.  He started his own tailor shop in Greenville.

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A drawing of the original house that Andrew and his wife Eliza McCardle Johnson lived in. Click on the image to see a larger view

The story of Johnson's political rise and how he became the president.  Click on the image to see a larger view.

Edmund G. Ross is one of eight U.S. Senators featured in Profiles in Courage, the 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning history written by then-Senator John F. Kennedy in commemoration of past acts of political courage in Congress.  Click on the image to see a larger view.

The old tailor shop that Andrew Johnson owned has been saved and moved into one of the permanent buildings at the National Historic Site.  Click on the image to see a large view.

Across the street from the National Historic Site is a statute of Andrew Johnson.  Click on the image to see a larger view and and find out who's who is the photograph.

A plaque outside of the recreated home where Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh NC.   Click on the image to see a larger view.

Andrew Johnson's home is located several blocks from the National Historic Site. Click on the picture to see a larger view.