[Godebert]

"To me, some of the most interesting questions are the ones we may never know the answers for: Where was Andrew Jackson born?"

Andrew Jackson was born at the Waxhaws, North Carolina in 1767. He was born 18 months after his parents left Carrickfergus on the shores of Belfast Lough for a new life in America. "The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas", p. 1997, Billy Kennedy.

[Tax-chick]

I live in the Waxhaws, NC, area! There are two locations, a few miles apart, offered as his birthplace. One is now in NC and one in SC, but at the time, the border hadn't been fixed by law. According to the local history sources, his mother was staying with one of her two married sisters when AJ was born, but the letters don't make it entirely clear which one.

South Carolina makes a bigger deal of it, at their state park, but Museum of the Waxhaws, NC, shows the birthplace near what's now the insignificant town of Mineral Springs, NC. (No library ... not even their own post office!)

Anyway, around here at least, it's a disputed issue. The truth is out there ...