I would like to welcome everyone to William Howard Taft National Historic Site on behalf of the National Park service. The significance of the house is that this is the birth and boyhood home of our 27th president and 10th chief justice William Howard taft. The house was built around 1840. Thats the time that we like to use here. Tafts parents were fawnville and louise taft. They originally came from the new england states. Well, alfonzo taft, when he first left townsend, vermont, which was his hometown area, he comes here to cincinnati, ohio, in 1838, and he actually begins to work with a law firm, nathaniel wright, becoming a lawyer here in cincinnati. This is where he first started to make money. The tafts were prominent individuals who would later leave downtown cincinnati and move up to the top of the hill here in mt. Auburn. Mt. Auburn was once referred to as cincinnatis fifth avenue. The prince of wales when he came to visit the city, he actually would stay in a home up here in
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