James K. Polk
James K. Polk
Birthplace
Birthplace: 12031 Lancaster Highway, Pineville, NC (James K. Polk State Historic Site)
Visited: 6/29/07
Log Excerpt: "... then headed to the James K. Polk Historic Site in Pineville. This is the remaining part of the farm where the president was born. Got a brief tour of the reconstructed log cabin then back to the visitor center for a look around the museum and good film."
Home
Home: Polk Ancestral Home, 301 West 7th Street, Columbia, TN
Visited: 9/17/16
Log Excerpt: "In Columbia I stopped at the James K. Polk Ancestral Home NHL (and SHS). The 1816 Federal-style house built by his father is the President’s only surviving home. After watching a video and looking through the small museum, I got an excellent personal tour of the home, furnished with many items from Polk Place, the now-demolished last Polk home."
White House
Home: White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC
Visited: 8/1968, 10/16/2022 etc. Photo 10/16/2022
White House Residence: 1845-1849
Home
Home: Polk Place, 211 7th Avenue N, Nashville, TN
Visited: 5/29/25
Log Excerpt: "'President Polk purchased the home while living in the White House in 1847, renaming it "Polk Place". It was the President's final residence, where he died of cholera at age 53, only three months after leaving office. He had lived in the home for between thirty and fifty days. After his death his wife continued to reside there for 42 years until her death in 1891. The home was demolished in 1901, a decade after her death.' We knew Polk was buried here before being moved to the Capitol grounds, but after this trip found out: 'A new marker inscribed “J.K.P.” was placed at City Cemetery during September 2015. President Polk was initially buried in the Grundy lot on June 16, 1849. Eleven months later, reburial took place at his home, “Polk Place,” on the completion of the monument designed by William Strickland.'"
Gravesite
Gravesite: City Cemetery, Grundy Lot, Section 25.2 ID # 250135, Nashville, TN
Visited: 5/29/25
Log Excerpt: See Polk Place home.
Gravesite
Gravesite: Polk Place, 211 7th Avenue N, Nashville, TN
Visited: 5/29/25
Log Excerpt: "As noted above, after this trip we found out that this cemetery is ... City Cemetery! Given that we were within a few hundred feet of the very simple small stone with initials, we elected to give ourselves credit for Polk’s for real first grave."
Gravesite
Gravesite: Tennessee State Capital Grounds, Charlotte Road, Nashville, TN
Visited: 9/15/16
Log Excerpt: "While doing so I found the gravesite of President James K. Polk, under a little protective enclosure."