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WSU Junior Cats Club Picnic and Dindsaur Exhibit * Ogden River Parkway * 5:00 p.m. * 625-7950 03-05 Even townspeople sometimes The Associated Press t's there. “After awhile, you kind oftakeit for granted,” said Joe Middeler, who owns a food market across the street from the cottage “There’s not much to it,” resident Reuben Ferguson said. Grant supporters hope to rescue the house from obscurity by building a museumnearbyto bededicated to Grant and the Civil War. And there are plans to try to get the part of U.S. 52 that runs through the area renamed “U.S. Grant Memorial Highway.” Tom Dix, who has founded the nonprofit Grant Historic Preserva- The birthplace of President Ulysses S. Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio, attracts only 5,000 visitors a year. The site may soon berestored with the addition of a Civil War museum. president, died in 1885. Grant had trouble holding down a Loretta Fuhrman said it’s about job. And, yes, there were corruption scandals in his administration. But, “his military peers give him credit for being one of the top generals this country has ever had,” Dix said. As for rumors that Grant was a drunkard, Dix said that while the tion Society, acknowledged that Grant birthplace for almost 30 years for the Ohio Historical Society. “T just think he does notget the praise that should go to him,” Mrs. Fuhrman said. “He’s the one who family man and never drank on the battlefield. 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