The James K. Polk Ancestral Home, also known as James K. Polk Home State Historic Site, is a historic house museum at 301 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee. Built in 1816, it is the only ...

The Polk home, which was designated as a national historic landmark in 1961, is currently owned by the state of Tennessee and operated by the nonprofit James K. Polk Memorial Association.

The National Park Service on Monday transmitted the James K. Polk Presidential Home Special Resource Study (SRS) to Congress, concluding that the 11th president’s Columbia, Tennessee, residence ...

James K. Polk was the nation's 11th president, serving from 1845 to 1849. ... Then at his home, Polk Place. Later, his remains were moved to the state Capitol after a family dispute.

The James K. Polk home in Columbia will commemorate Presidents Day with a half-priced weekend.. The Polk home is the only surviving house that the 11th president lived in, other than the White ...

The James K. Polk Home Presidential Study Act was included in the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016, a bipartisan energy bill that would help fuel innovation in our free enterprise system to ...

The resolution would allow the bodies to be exhumed and moved about 50 miles south to Columbia to the grounds of the James K. Polk Home and Museum.

COLUMBIA, Tenn. -The James K Polk Home and Museum might be one of Tennessee's best historic sites, but it doesn't get a lot of attention. U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander is trying to change that.He's ...

Democrat James Polk is the only president never to have had children, not even by adoption, but it's far from his only claim to fame. Our 11th president is best known for expanding the nation's ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: James K. Polk Ancestral Home has hosted 5 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1994 Vignette. The year with the highest average number of views per ...

Nearly 168 years after he died and more than a century since the last time his body was exhumed and relocated, there's yet another battle underway over whether to move his remains — this time ...