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Ivy Green, Tuscumbia, AL

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Ivy Green

Tour Helen Keller's childhood home and see the well pump where she first connected words to the world.

300 North Commons St W · Tuscumbia, AL

About Ivy Green

Ivy Green is the white clapboard house built in 1820 by Helen Keller's grandfather, where she was born in 1880 and spent her childhood. Tours show the main house with original furnishings and memorabilia, the small birthplace cottage, and the well pump where Keller had her breakthrough with teacher Anne Sullivan. The grounds include old English boxwoods and a garden. Each summer the play "The Miracle Worker" is staged outdoors on the property.

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