<div>David Kroese is one of fewer than a hundred people known to have visited all 430+ National Park Service units. Over the past decade, David has logged 1,600+ site visits and 6,000+ trail miles exploring NPS units across the country.</div>
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<div>To celebrate the National Park Service’s centennial in 2016, David visited 387 parks in 360 days, traveling through all 50 states and the Caribbean territories. He completed his visits to all the parks in December 2017. <a name="x__Hlk61372346"></a>David wrote of his experiences in 2016 and 2017 in the first published narrative through all the NPS sites, <em><a name="x__Hlk61372346"></a>The Centennial: A Journey through America’s National Park System</em><a name="x__Hlk61372346"></a>. </div>

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Author Talk: Following Ulysses Grant through our National Park System

Ulysses S. Grant is known as the victorious Civil War general who saved the Union and the 18th President of the United States. He first met Julia Dent, his future wife, at her family home, named White Haven. From 1854 to 1859 the Dents, Grants and an enslaved African-American workforce lived on the property.

View of house with fence. Autumn colored leaves on trees

White Haven in Autumn

view of house from side and back. The house has several additions. Stone summer kitchen on right

White Haven

To the left is the ice house and to right is chicken house.

Outbuildings

Tack Room

Museum Exhibits

Winter at White Haven

View of house from front with budding tree branch in foreground that is also covered in ice.

White Haven in Early Spring

Ulysses S Grant

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site’s hours of operation are 9AM – 5PM, with the last tour of the historic house at 4 pm.

Author Talk: Following Ulysses Grant through our National Park System

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