Zachary Taylor – Price Undetermined, Springfield Plantation, Louisville, Kentucky

Springfield was Zachary Taylor’s home as a boy, spending twenty years there. It’s now a brick house of two and a half stories. His father built the house, constructing the initial portion when Taylor was still a baby in 1790 then doubling its size in 1830 and increasing his farm to 700 acres from 400 acres. For the majority of his life, he had a career as an officer in the military so he moved frequently. He had his wedding at Springfield in 1810 and most of his kids were born there. Taylor sometimes went back to visit his father, whose death in 1829 prompted the sale of the plantation.