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President James A. Garfield
Photographer: via Huffpost
Taken: unknown
Caption: President James A. Garfield's Cottage
Additional Description: Top: After Garfield's attempted assassination, he was surrounded by his family and positioned to see the ocean. He told his doctors, “It is refreshing to get where I can look at the sea.” He observed the fisherman, the boats and the bathers and whispered, “I am myself again.”
Bottom: Crowds gathered one afternoon to watch the president’s train inch toward the cottage. The original engine was too heavy for the track, so workers switched Garfield's car to a smaller engine. When that stalled, 200 railroad workers pushed it the last few hundred yards to the cottage door. The tea house, which was built from the railroad tiles from the aforementioned endeavor, is currently undergoing preservation efforts on the Long Branch Historical Museum grounds on which it now rests.
Submitted: March 11, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p572406
File Size: 0.188 Megabytes

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