Heads of State
who visited the
New York Worlds Fair
1939 - 1940
Herbert C. Hoover, USA •
Franklin D. Roosevelt, USA •
George VI, Great Britain •
Anastasio Somoza, Nicaragua
1964 - 1965
Herbert C. Hoover, USA •
Harry . . . — — Map (db m193429) HM
Erected and affectionately inscribed to the memory of the heroic men and women of Concord, Staten Island, as a tribute to the self sacrificing spirit that they displayed in their country's service during the momentous years of 1941-1945 . . . — — Map (db m181559) WM
In Heuvelton at a railway siding the night of August 17, 1940, Pres. Roosevelt and Prime Minister King discussed mutual problems and created a permanent joint board on defense known as the Ogdensburg Agreement. — — Map (db m88845) HM
“I place first of all in importance the passage of the
bill creating the power authority to develop the state-owned waterpower on the St. Lawrence River.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 24, 1931
This grove marks the renaming of . . . — — Map (db m152500) HM
Railroads Come to the North Country
"Canadian lumber, livestock, silk, raw silk, silk goods, American coal, Oriental
and merchandise provided much of the material transferred.” - Rails Across The River, By Ted Rafuse
Near this . . . — — Map (db m153278) HM
1732 1932 In commemoration of the visit of George Washington to Kingston on the 16th of November, 1782 His reception by the Trustees of the freeholders and Commonalty of the Town and the Consistory of this church George J.L. . . . — — Map (db m57574) HM
Ossining High School
Ossining High School, built in 1929 was designed by famed architect James Gamble Rogers. The Tower, rising three stories above the main building, represented the highest point in the village when built, and was . . . — — Map (db m193216) HM
1. W.S. Brandon General Merchandise
Last merchant was Dudley Brandon. The building was an early silent movie theater.
2. Lewis Walker Drugstore
Beautiful brown granite counters.
3. W.T. Oliver General Merchandise . . . — — Map (db m220876) HM
Congressman, 1901-1934. Chairman House Rules Committee during parts of administrations of Wilson, F.D. Roosevelt. Grave is 200 yds. south. — — Map (db m70388) HM
In Spring of 1927, this sixty-room hotel was opened simultaneously with the incorporation of the Town of Lake Lure (sister city of Lake Como, Italy) and the completion of the Lake Lure Dam which formed the lake, along with other matching . . . — — Map (db m234194) HM
“We meet today to dedicate the mountains, streams, and forests to the service of the American People.”
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
September 2, 1940
The Rockefeller Memorial . . . — — Map (db m20022) HM
(Side One):
The Great Smokies: scenic, diverse, culturally rich.
The scenic view here are well known; lesser known is the abundance of life. The Smokies' rugged topography creates a diversity of species found in few other places in North . . . — — Map (db m20066) HM
Nature forged the Great Smokies, but the hands of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) helped shape the national park we know today. During the 1930s, enrollment peaked as 4,300 men worked here, building roads, campgrounds, trails, and buildings. . . . — — Map (db m99065) HM
"My mural for the Warrenton, North Carolina, Post Office is simply a decorative landscape composed of animals in a pasture typical of the locale, and arranged in a design suitable to the architecture." — Alice Dinneen
“I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps . . . We can take a vast army of these unemployed out into healthful surroundings. We can eliminate to some extent at least the threat that enforced idleness brings to spiritual and moral . . . — — Map (db m87538) HM
Nodak Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., during North Dakota’s Centennial year, commemorates the pioneers of rural electrification and the community leaders who dared dream of a better way of life in the stark days of 1935 to 1940. As the State . . . — — Map (db m209452) HM
Fort Amanda and the surrounding area is built
atop a glacial moraine (soil, sand and gravel left
behind by glaciers). It is safe to say the area was
used throughout prehistory for short- and
long-term habitation. During the Archaic . . . — — Map (db m167018) HM
During the height of World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt turned to the innovative engineers of the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation to build powerful short wave radio transmitters capable of delivering broadcasts overseas. On farm fields . . . — — Map (db m23994) HM
America needed hope in
the early 1930s, as The Great
Depression took its toll.
Newly elected President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
implemented social programs,
such as the Works Progress
Administration (W.P.A) . . . — — Map (db m173228) HM
The Civilian Conservation Corps. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the federal government established the Civilian Conservation Corps, known as the CCC or triple C's under the direction of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal . . . — — Map (db m26482) HM
President Theodore Roosevelt and W. H. Taft spoke here in 1912. President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the “Start Westward” sesquicentennial monument in 1938. — — Map (db m20603) HM
During the 1930s severe drought plagued the states in the Great Plains and deepened the Depression. High winds caused dust storms which blackened the sky. In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt initiated a program to help stabilize the blowing soil . . . — — Map (db m39805) HM
dedicated September 28, 1937 by
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States
as a monument to the skill and faithful performance of workers on the rolls of the Works Progress Administration — — Map (db m112336) HM
This historical hidden treasure
was once owned by the Ambassador
from Mexico to the United States and
was visited by
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
on the eve of his Gettysburg Address in 1938. — — Map (db m242301) HM
"Lincoln was Commander-in-Chief in this old battle; he wanted above all things to be Commander-in-Chief of the new peace." President Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Dedication, July 3, 1938 Veterans of the Union and Confederate armies from across . . . — — Map (db m194126) HM
FDR’s Sec. of the Interior 1933-46. Builder of public works, ardent conservationist, fierce fighter for human rights, advocate of government as an agent for the public good. This is the site of his boyhood home. — — Map (db m52344) HM
For heroism or meritorious achievement
while participating in aerial flight.
Established by Executive Order on May, 11, 1942,
during the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. — — Map (db m232256) HM WM
For heroism or meritorious achievement or service
Established by military regulation on January 11, 1944,
during the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. — — Map (db m232263) HM WM
For heroism or meritorious achievement or service,
not involving participation in aerial flight,
while engaged in an action against an enemy
of the United States.
Established by Executive Order on February 4, 1944,
during the . . . — — Map (db m232243) HM WM
(1941-1945) Fought in every corner of the globe, this world war drew 100 million combatants from 65 countries into the fray. Over seven million soldiers and 30 million civilians died as a result of the six-year conflict while uncounted . . . — — Map (db m232031) WM
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1935-1939. His administration during the Great Depression, known as the “Little New Deal,” created more than 200,000 new jobs and established the Pa. Turnpike Commission. Civil rights, labor, and unemployment . . . — — Map (db m135762) HM
The first Black woman elected to a state legislature in the U.S. Fauset, who lived here, won her seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1938. She later served as a Civil Defense race relations advisor under Franklin D. Roosevelt. — — Map (db m82811) HM
The Municipal Court Building at 1801 Vine Street is Philadelphia's most prominent building from the New Deal program. John T. Windrim began designing the Municipal Court Building in 1930 to mirror the adjacent Free Library but the Great . . . — — Map (db m214225) HM
The southeast corner of 22nd and Walnut Streets was the site of the marble mansion of George W. Childs, the publisher of the Public Ledger. The mansion, completed in 1869, was designed by John McArthur Jr., the same architect who designed . . . — — Map (db m191919) HM
Born at our nation’s lowest point, the CCC rebuilt a land and its people. We all owe thanks to the thousands of men who helped build Pennsylvania’s parks and reforest its hills.
Beginning late in 1929, the Great Depression was a desperate time . . . — — Map (db m90048) HM
Lawyer & jurist. Chief U.S. prosecutor, Nuremberg war crimes trials in Germany after World War II. Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-54; noted for his defense of civil liberties. Served in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration . . . — — Map (db m64968) HM
El Flambayón es uno de los árboles más hermosos que tenemos. Aunque es nativo de Madagascar, hoy día es cultivado en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico. Cuando florece el Flamboyán rojo parece derramar su sangre sobre nuestro suelo en señal de . . . — — Map (db m225781) HM
President Roosevelt was a central figure in world events during the mid twentieth century, leading the nation during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. Although left paraplegic, when stricken with polio, he won four . . . — — Map (db m193241) HM
Mary Ferrazzoli (1928-1994) was the visionary leader who founded the Friends of the Waterfront in 1982. She vigorously championed public access and stood firmly opposed to the commercial overdevelopment of the Newport waterfront blocking public . . . — — Map (db m189622) HM
Leading America out of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt implemented programs to give citizens jobs that improved our nation's infrastructure: adding schools, roads, parks and, yes, bridges! One such building program was the . . . — — Map (db m20145) HM
This cabinet member and diplomat was born two miles south of here. He graduated from Trinity College in 1888 and later became head of Marlboro High School, near here. He was Franklin D. Roosevelt's first secretary of commerce from 1933 to 1938 and . . . — — Map (db m31693) HM
Young men determined to escape economic hardship built this lodge from 1973-1940. They were enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), one of President Franklin Roosevelt's programs to battle the Great Depression.
The CCC provided . . . — — Map (db m30217) HM
The "Statue of Liberty Division" was reviewed by England's Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt after it was reactivated here in 1942. The 77th fought in World War II Pacific campaigns of Guam, Leyte, Kerama Retto Islands, and . . . — — Map (db m59252) HM
Federal Works Agency
Public Works Administration
John M. Carmody
Federal Works Administrator
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States
The original site of the home of Dr. Jesse F. Cleveland, on which this building is . . . — — Map (db m25708) HM
On November 25, 1935, 17 farmers from Clay and Union counties held an historic meeting at the Manning/O'Connor store in Burbank, three miles south of this spot. Their purpose was to form a consumer-owned corporation which would allow the rural . . . — — Map (db m179899) HM
Tennessee State Parks
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) played an important role in shaping the establishment and early growth of Tennessee's state parks. Fifteen of the first 25 parks received significant levels of design and construction . . . — — Map (db m151474) HM
On Oct. 8, 1918, outside the French village of Chatel-Chenery, Alvin C. York took his fateful walk into history during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive against the German forces. As the sharpshooter for Company G in the 328th Infantry of the U.S. Army, . . . — — Map (db m81525) WM
Hattie W. Caraway was born February 1, 1878, one-half mile south of here. In 1902, she married Thaddeus H. Caraway and moved to Jonesboro, Arkansas. Following the death of her husband, a United States Senator, in 1931 she entered the Senate from . . . — — Map (db m171328) HM
Founded in 1939, Capshaw School was part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Program. Named in honor of Cookeville attorney and co-founder of Dixie College Robert Byrd Capshaw, the land that the school sits on, was once part of the Capshaw farm. . . . — — Map (db m124067) HM
By the 1930s, many residents of cities across the U.S. were benefiting from the common use of electricity. However, a vast majority of rural areas lacked electric service, which compounded depression-era problems for farmers whose crop returns were . . . — — Map (db m126764) HM
In 1937 the State of Texas and Hardeman County worked with President Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration in an attempt to provide much-needed employment to indigent citizens and replace unsanitary privies with improved facilities. The . . . — — Map (db m104919) HM
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), established by President Franklin Roosevelt, provided work for young unemployed men during the Great Depression. From 1934 to 1938, small groups of "CCC boys" worked to construct roads, scenic overlooks, a . . . — — Map (db m149127) HM
Locomotive 220 was the last coal-burning steam ten-wheeler used on the Central Vermont Railway. As a medium-sized engine it moved both freight and passenger trains and became known as the [sic] "The Locomotive of Presidents" for its use on special . . . — — Map (db m109152) HM
The Rail Locomotive No. 220, built in 1915 by the American Locomotive [C]ompany of Schenectady, New York, was the last coal-burning, steam ten-wheeler used on the Central Vermont Railway. As a medium-sized 4-6-0 engine (4 leading wheels, 6 driving . . . — — Map (db m109153) HM
This site marks the entrance to the west River C.C.C. Camp. This CCC was part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and targeted unemployed men 18–25 whose families were on relief. Nationally, over 2.5 million men were hired and paid $30 . . . — — Map (db m109185) HM
The Joshua Pruitt House is one of the oldest on Tangier.
Joshua Pruitt (1866-1949) and his wife Amanda took in boarders, teachers, and held worship services in their front yard.
Pruitt traveled to Washington, DC, during the Great . . . — — Map (db m106968) HM
The columns
of this portico
were used in the
Inaugural stand on which
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
took his oath of office
March 3, 1937 — — Map (db m134454) HM
Arlington During the Conflict
By the mid-20th century, there was an overwhelming housing and transportation problem in Arlington County as the population more than doubled from 57,040 in 1940 to 135,449 in 1950. Thousands moved to . . . — — Map (db m236047) HM
America Joins the War
On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland; two days later, Great Britain, France, and a number of other allies declared war on Germany. War already had been underway in Asia between Imperial Japan and . . . — — Map (db m236042) HM
Roaches Run Waterfowl Sanctuary, a nature preserve that hosts many species of migratory birds, included a designed recreational road pull-off parking area intended as a feature of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, the original portion of the . . . — — Map (db m156767) HM
Shortly after Congress authorized the creation of two new eastern national parks—Shenandoah and Great Smokey Mountains—President Franklin Roosevelt saw great opportunity in constructing the first "national rural parkway" to connect . . . — — Map (db m170604) HM
I propose to create a civilian conservation corps…confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects. I call your attention to the fact that this type of work is of definite, practical value, not . . . — — Map (db m28863) HM
Honoring Culpeper citizens who gave their lives in service to their country
World War II
William Robert Baker •
Joseph Evan Beach •
John Travers Bickers •
Claude Powell Bradley •
Staunton Montgomery Brown •
George Washington . . . — — Map (db m170740) WM
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), originally designed as a New Deal Program under the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, provided work for young men during the Depression Era, a time of excessive unemployment. From . . . — — Map (db m41173) HM
The gates, which were installed in 1819, were one of the finishing touches to the reconstruction of the White House after it was burned during the War of 1812. The gates were commissioned by President James Monroe and were fabricated at the New . . . — — Map (db m140956) HM
Here lived Thomas Calhoun Walker, the first black to practice law in Gloucester County and a civil rights spokesman who vigorously advocated education and land ownership for blacks. Mr. Walker was elected for two terms to Gloucester's Board of . . . — — Map (db m7582) HM
During World War II, while in training for the Army, Navy, or Army Air Corps, both men and women found a "home away from home" at two locations in Hampton, one for whites and another for African Americans. These USO (United Service . . . — — Map (db m166540) HM
Just east of the shallow bay where the Appomattox River empties into the James, City Point juts into the water. Upon first spying the easily defensible peninsula, Capt. Christopher Newport determined to deposit his boatload of colonists there. . . . — — Map (db m19679) HM
The trio of green buildings around the circular drives were constructed in the early 1900s by the Eustis family, the last private owners of Oatlands. William Corcoran Eustis enjoyed the close proximity to Virginia hunt country while Edith Eustis . . . — — Map (db m195183) HM
This marks the site
where in May 1917
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
and
Major General Commandant George Barnett
cut the first tree symbolizing official
acquisition of the Marine Reservation
Quantico, . . . — — Map (db m2638) HM
The Marine Corps League was chartered by an act of the 75th Congress of the United States on 4 August 1937 and was approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Major General John A. Lejeune was the first honorary National Commandant.
Its . . . — — Map (db m168699) HM
The Army with Shovels.
By 1933, the Great Depression had demoralized the nation. Millions of young men were unemployed and families were starving. On March 9, 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Its . . . — — Map (db m10158) HM
"By virtue of the authority vested in me as president of the United States...the Massanutten Unit of George Washington National Forest is hereby designated as the Robert Fechner Memorial Forest in honor of Robert Fechner, the first director of the . . . — — Map (db m65487) HM
Here at Berea, during the Great Depression, was the site of Civilian Conservation Corps Company 2363. This camp, one of many in Virginia, was organized in 1935 and disbanded in 1940. During its existence, the company strung farm fences, planted . . . — — Map (db m230174) HM
The Corps Comes to Virginia
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the creation of a nationwide program intended to alleviate unemployment resulting from The Great Depression. Unmarried men ages 18-25 were offered construction . . . — — Map (db m134554) HM
“I propose to create a civilian conservation corps…confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects. I call your attention to the fact that this type of work is of definite, practical . . . — — Map (db m81215) HM
Napoleon Hill was born nearby on 26 Oct. 1883.
At age 13, he became a “mountain reporter” for small
town newspapers. He left Southwest Virginia in 1908
to write magazine profiles of such business leaders as
Andrew Carnegie, Henry . . . — — Map (db m90860) HM
Near this site President Roosevelt, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt delivered the address dedicating Grand Coulee Dam. Nearly 20,000 people attended the ceremony which was preceded by an inspection of the dam’s construction. — — Map (db m99855) HM
The Littlepage Terrace Public Housing Project, constructed ca. 1939 under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the New Deal Program, was built upon the remnants of the Littlepage farm owned by the prominent Charleston Littlepage family. The . . . — — Map (db m178781) HM
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Scott's Run in 1933 in the height of the Great Depression when FDR was creating the New Deal. She visited households without fanfare (including Lou Birurakis' mother) and even went into the mines. Upon seeing the . . . — — Map (db m176173) HM
President Franklin Roosevelt implemented the New Deal programs to revitalize the nation's economy during the Great Depression. Recreation and infrastructure projects provided employment opportunities. More than 55,000 West Virginia men were . . . — — Map (db m180891) HM
On December 11, 1905, in Clarksburg, West Virginia, was born one of the most acclaimed documentarians in American history. Pare Lorentz attended West Virginia Wesleyan College & resided here in Buckhannon during most of his childhood. He later . . . — — Map (db m178913) HM
William Daniel Leahy was born in Iowa in 1875 and his family soon moved to Wisconsin. He graduated from Ashland High School in 1892 and for the rest of his life considered Ashland his home town.
Leahy graduated from the Naval Academy and served . . . — — Map (db m204096) HM
The Social Security system that became a cornerstone of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was written by University of Wisconsin economist Edwin Witte, who served as an advisor to Roosevelt. Witte drew from deep Wisconsin roots. He based the new . . . — — Map (db m31953) HM
This large stucco house was designed by noted Madison bungalow designer, Cora Tuttle. From 1913 to 1937, it was the home of John R. Commons, a U.W. professor of economics. Commons was nationally significant as the author of important social reforms . . . — — Map (db m45742) HM
The economic depression of the 1930's left millions of American's lacking for affordable housing. The notion if creating "Greenbelt Communities" was part of the Roosevelt Administration's "New Deal" program, aimed at providing needed housing and . . . — — Map (db m183618) HM
On this site, in 1885, James Roosevelt, businessman and country gentleman of Hyde Park, New york, built the cottage shown below. The Cottage was intended to be a summer retreat for his wife, Sara Delano, and their son Franklin Delano Roosevelt. . . . — — Map (db m25456) HM
Owners of the Campobello Company hoped to enhance their one million-dollar investment by subdividing their land and selling the smaller lots to hotel guests, island residents, and others. Only a few of the lots were actually sold and built upon. . . . — — Map (db m25471) HM
Although visitors had been coming to the island since 1855, Campobello's summer trade did not really prosper until the 1880s - years of long summer vacations and great resorts. A group of Boston and New York businessmen bought most of the . . . — — Map (db m63639) HM
About 1840, a canal connecting Johnson and South Bays was dug in North Lubec and a dam constructed there to harness tidal energy to power plaster mills. Gypsum (the raw product used to make plaster) and grindstones from the Maritimes were important . . . — — Map (db m54995) HM
[English version]
Built in 1885, the Mulholland Point Lighthouse guided many small coasters and freighters taking the shorter and foul weather-protected route through the narrow passage between Campobello and Lubec. Steamships, carrying freight . . . — — Map (db m54894) HM
Built in 1885, the Mulholland Point Lighthouse (photo 1) served as a guide for the many small coasters and freighters taking the shorter and more foul weather-protected route through the Lubec Narrows. Steamships, such as the . . . — — Map (db m63593) HM
During the years FDR summered on Campobello, the daughter of one of Campobello's summer colonists married Dexter P. Cooper, an eminent American engineer. Cooper studied the tremendous rise and fall of Passamaquoddy Bay's tides and became . . . — — Map (db m63611) HM
Passamaquoddy Bay takes its name from the Native American Passamaquoddy Tribe. The word means People of the Pollock-Spearing Place. The Passamaquoddy have a rich heritage, once occupying much of what is now eastern Maine and western New . . . — — Map (db m63617) HM
The Great Depression 1929-1941
The depression was world-wide. In the U.S., the banking system collapsed and 12.8 million people were unemployed. Hardest hit were youth, minorities, the elderly, and workers in the consumer durables industries. . . . — — Map (db m54783) HM
The Roosevelt Campobello International Park is a unique example of international cooperation - jointly administered, staffed, and funded by the peoples of Canada and the United States. Established by international treaty in 1964, the . . . — — Map (db m63591) HM
French:
En 1943 et 1944 le president des États-Unis Franklin Delano Roosevelt et le premier ministre de Grande Bretagne Winston Spencer Churchill dirigèrent à Quebec les deux conferences qui déterminèrent lisse de la deuxième Guerre . . . — — Map (db m80758) HM
