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Eisenhower Birthplace - 208 East Day · Denison, TX 75020
Dwight David Eisenhower was born October 14, 1890 in a modest two-story frame house at the corner of Lamar Avenue and Day Street in Denison, Texas. Ike was the only one of David and Ida Eisenhower's seven children born in Texas. The future leader of the free world in war and peace was born in a railroad neighborhood, with the family home nestled within a few yards of three railroad lines.
The white picket fence a trademark of this land mark birthplace was built by the Terrell High School 1946 class of Smith Hughes Carpentry Class.