Franklin Pierce – Franklin Pierce Homestead, New Hampshire

Franklin Pierce, the 14th US President, lived in this two-story, hipped roof home from when he was still a baby until he got married. It’s a very roomy house of clapboard and frame which was built by his father, Benjamin, in 1804 on his property of several hundred acres. Pierce was president at the point of great unrest in the antebellum generation. While serving, the seeming peace from the 1850 Compromise snapped. The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act with the violence that came out of it called “Bleeding Kansas” significantly sped up the push of the nation to the Civil War.