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Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, Fremont, OH
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Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums is a museum in Fremont, OH, part of the Detroit guide. Cost: under $25.

Spiegel Grove · Fremont, OH

Why you should go…

Spiegel Grove preserves the home, museum collections, and grave site of President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife. The library holds more than 90,000 items spanning genealogy, local history, and the Gilded Age, and the surrounding 25-acre grounds include an arboretum.

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