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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: October 13, 2009
Caption: Beauty and Hope Marker
Additional Description: The creation of parks and rose gardens is an important and lasting legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs. On January 20, 1933, Roosevelt spoke briefly at the Grant Street Station in Decatur as part of a whistlestop tour of the area. Nearly a year later, on January 16, 1934, the name "Delano Park" was chosen as the winning entry in a contest sponsored by the Decatur Daily. The name honored FDR for "having made possible the development of park properties in Decatur."
Submitted: March 18, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p196936
File Size: 0.459 Megabytes

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