Mercersburg, Pennsylvania

     After a wagon road was built across Cove Mountain and the Tuscarora Mountains, the trading post was no longer needed so, when James was six years old his family moved to Mercersburg, where James's father decided to open a store (Buchanan State Park, informational display).  The building where James and his family lived is now called the Buchanan Hotel.  It is open for business on Main Street in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania (photograph courtesy of www.presidentialavenue.com/media/300/15c.jpg).

   

 
This statue and plaque stand in the square of downtown Mercersburg to commemorate Buchanan's life and legacy.