North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
The President James K. Polk State Historic Site

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The President James K. Polk Home and Museum
301 West 7th Street, Columbia, Tennessee

The only surviving Tennessee home of James K. Polk and his parents.  Upon his graduation from The University of North Carolina, James K. Polk lived here from 1818 - 1824, until his marriage to Sarah Childress.