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President's Day: 50 States, 50 Presidential Sites (PHOTOS)

Posted: 02/20/2012 9:00 am

Presidents Day: That strategic February Monday holiday in the U.S. that's situated at arm's length between George Washington's birthday (February 22) and Abraham Lincoln's (February 12). Every American knows it -- mostly for the day off from school or work -- but how do you celebrate?

Most folks go see a movie or spend another day on the ski slopes. But there's least one worthy presidential thing to do in every state of the US.

Here's our list of 50 state-by-state picks (plus a bonus pick for the District of Columbia).

Author Robert Reid is Lonely Planet's US Travel Editor and the inventor of the Chester A. Arthur sandwich.

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Alabama: Harry S Truman has no site here. ""Dixiecrats" opposing his civil rights legislation managed to keep him off the presidential ballot, as an incumbent, in 1948. Learn more at the museum of the Alabama Department of Archives & History.
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Presidents Day: That strategic February Monday holiday in the U.S. that's situated at arm's length between George Washington's birthday (February 22) and Abraham Lincoln's (February 12). Every America...
Presidents Day: That strategic February Monday holiday in the U.S. that's situated at arm's length between George Washington's birthday (February 22) and Abraham Lincoln's (February 12). Every America...