Local Grant Cottage Featured on U.S. Grant Mini-Series This Month

WILTON — The History Channel has announced that its three-part mini-series on U.S. Grant will air on successive nights beginning May 25.   

The Grant Cottage, located near Saratoga Springs, will be featured in the docudrama, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s company.  Grant spent the last six weeks of his life at this Cottage in Saratoga County completing his Civil War memoirs. DiCaprio’s production company filmed at the cottage last October.

Grant Cottage President Tim Welch said the cottage received a $10,000 donation from DiCaprio, and that the History Channel s also donated two 30-second commercials in the national broadcast which will promote Grant Cottage as a national historic landmark.