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Eisenhower Home

March 16th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
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The Eisenhower Center in Abilene was built on family property near this home.

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  1. heineken160
    March 16th, 2008 at 20:18 | #1
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    I like the plants which give the home a lived in look. Were they real, Cheryl?

  2. Cheryl
    March 16th, 2008 at 20:24 | #2
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    Yeah, I believe they are real. There were a bunch of plants in the very front room, but photos in that room didn’t come out. Flash photos weren’t allowed in any of the buildings.

  3. elebrown
    March 16th, 2008 at 21:26 | #3
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    You must have gone upstairs! I think the last time I went, a few years ago, we weren’t allowed to go upstairs–but had in the past.
    Did you go to the museum and library, too….oh, you probably did. When I was in H.S., our band went there once to play when Eisenhower was flying in (in a helicopter, I think)–of course, this was back in the late 50′s.

  4. heineken160
    March 17th, 2008 at 07:52 | #4
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    Eisenhower, what a great Irish name!!

  5. Cheryl
    March 17th, 2008 at 09:53 | #5
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    Ele- that bedroom is on the first floor, first thing on the right when you walk in the door.

    They still don’t allow visitors upstairs. Fire code, I imagine.

  6. miltm
    March 17th, 2008 at 19:06 | #6
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    My grand mother was a high school classmate of Ike. Her father, Henry Engle, is mentioned in the book At Ease, Stories I tell To Friends by Dwight D. Eisenhower as follows:
    (page 88)
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    Other men well acquainted with revolvers and their use were the town marshall, Henny (Henry) Engle, and the Wells Fargo agent , a Mr. Gish.
    Sometimes they went out to Mud Creek and would let me accompany them as they held a shooting contest…
    As my grand mother told it, this was how Ike learned to use a pistol!

  7. Cheryl
    March 17th, 2008 at 20:47 | #7
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    How neat – to have that family connection with Ike!