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Three presidents – Andrew Jackson, James Madison, and Grover Cleveland – celebrated March birthdays within three days of each other and a fourth, John Tyler, was born later in the month.

Jackson’s 252^nd birthday was celebrated this year at The Hermitage outside of Nashville, where Jackson spent most of his adult lift, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the gravesite of our seventh president and a War of 1812 encampment, reports The Tennessean.

While he is most associated with his Nashville-area home, Jackson was born in Waxhaws on the border of modern-day South Carolina and North Carolina on March 15, 1767.

Jackson’s precise birthplace isn’t known, because at the time the area was still being established as a settlement. Jackson always claimed he was born in South Carolina, even though an aunt who was present for his birth, said it was in North Carolina, according The Hermitage.

Today, historical signage in North Carolina on Main Street in Waxhaw and at the end of Route 1105 mark the area near what was once McCamie cabin – one of two possible birth locations.

Madison’s 268^th birthday was celebrated on March 16 at the cemetery at Montpelier, Virginia. Our fourth president was recognized with a wreath-laying ceremony at the home where he spent most of his life, reports The Daily Progress.

Madison was born in 1751 in a small house at the estate of his maternal grandmother at Port Conway on the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg.

The Conway House slid into the river in the 1930s due to erosion in an area just off U.S. Route 301 near the James Madison Memorial Bridge. A birth-site marker can be found on the south side of the river, according to PresidentialMuseums.com.

Cleveland, our 22^nd and 24^th president and only one to have served two nonconsecutive terms, was born on March 18, 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey.

He was born in a home that served as a Presbyterian church for his father, a reverend who also led services in the building.

The family moved to New York in 1841, and a group of local citizens later purchased the home to open it as a museum.

Cleveland’s 182^nd birthday was celebrated at the Grover Cleveland Birthplace as part of Grover Cleveland Week that included a memorial service and presidential talk.

Cleveland is buried at the Princeton Cemetery near Princeton University, where he once served as a trustee prior to his death in 1908.

John Tyler, our 10^th president, was born to a prominent family on March 29, 1790 in Charles City, Virginia.

His father, also named John Tyler, was Virginia’s governor. He was born at Greenway, a now-private residence with a historic marker along 10920 John Tyler Memorial Highway.

Tyler’s Sherwood Forest plantation home located nearby is open to the public and Tyler’s grandson, as of 2012, was giving tours by appointment, reported WTVR at the time.

This year would be Tyler’s 229^th birthday.