Logan Republican | 1903-01-27 | Page 4 | Buchanan's Birthplace in Decay

Buchanan's Birthplace In Decay. Withia tho walls of a log hut located lo-cated formerly in what Is known as Stony Battery, a few miles from horv in Franklin county, says a Morceri burg correspondent of tho Philadelphia Press, was born, on April 23, 1791, tho boy who becamo tho fifteenth President Presi-dent of tho United States James Buchanan. A few years ago tho peoplo ot Mercersburg. saw fit to preaervo this relic, and with that object in vlow tho hut was romoved for a couple of miles from its orlgtnal slto to its present pres-ent place, at tho odgo of town. Since then local interest in tho llttlo structure struc-ture haa died away. It was rented rot long ago to a colored family, and to-day, savo for their occasional ministrations, minis-trations, receives neither caro nor repair.