presidents including william hisy harrison, known by contemporaries as the father of the west. our time warner cable partners worked with c-span's city to her staff when we traveled to cincinnati to explore the history. learn more on american history tv. we are in georgia, ohio, and this is the boyhood home of grant. we are 40 miles east of cincinnati and 10 miles from the ohio river. he lived here and went to school here. was thes grant commander of the union forces in the civil war, and he won the war for the north. then he became the 18th president of the united states, three years later. came iner and mother 1823. georgetown was a frontier. they had just made brown county a county. that is why his father wanted to move here, because he would have a lot more business. this is going to be the county seat and there would be a lot more people moving in. his father was a painter and he made bridled and shoes. they share the house with a family name to the bailey's while he started building his house. he built it right here because there was a creek on one side and a creek on the