Zachary Taylor Home

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This postcard image is of President Zachary Taylor’s boyhood home in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Zachary Taylor Home

Zachary Taylor Home

By Daniel J. Burge

Historical Marker #1849 in Louisville notes the location of the boyhood home of general and president Zachary Taylor. Taylor was born in Orange County, Virginia, in 1784 to Richard and Sarah Dabney Taylor. Richard Taylor had served in the…