Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg, PA

Still in Gettysburg, PA, toured Ike and Mamie Eisenhower's farmhouse. It's located right next to the battlefield. This is the only home he ever owned, though they moved 40 times in the course of their marriage. The home has all been kept original, it looks as if they just walked out and would be back shortly, even clothes in the closet and the cars in the garage. It's a very modest home, simply furnished. President Eisenhower loved to paint, play cards, loved watching I Love Lucy. He ran a successful cattle business, Angus Cattle. He also loved to play golf and the PGA installed a putting green for him. There was also a skeet range. When people would come stay at the ranch, he would proudly show his Angus, going into the stalls and poking the cattle until they got up, making the secret service very nervous. Same thing when Winston Churchill visited, he would slap them on the rear!

This barn was next to the house and they kept it for horses and ponies for the children and grandchildren to ride.

The farm equipment still in the barn

View from his barn

Price on this gas tank was .24 9/10 cents a gallon

This is still a working ranch, and they have 12 baby cattle right now

This was the herdsmen house, built in 1797




Path that goes from the house to the barns

This used to be a pond that his grandson David liked to fish in, it dried up in 1964




This is the part of the house that President Eisenhower's office was in and the family den



Other side of house, too long to get it in one shot