Roosevelt Campobello International Park
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IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
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 The cottage at Campobello |
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| Location | Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Nearest city | Saint John, New Brunswick |
| Coordinates | 44°51′06″N 66°56′33″W / 44.85167°N 66.94250°WCoordinates: 44°51′06″N 66°56′33″W / 44.85167°N 66.94250°W |
| Area | 11.01 km2 (2,720 acres) |
| Established | July 7, 1964 |
| Governing body | Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission |
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Roosevelt Campobello International Park preserves the house and surrounding landscape of the Roosevelt family summer retreat. It was here in August 1921, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with poliomyelitis at the age of 39. Franklin rarely returned but Eleanor Roosevelt loved the cool summer weather and visited many times with her small children and later she came alone in the summer. After her death the family deeded the property to the governments of the U.S. and Canada and in 1964 they created the 2,800 acre International Park.[1] The park occupies most of the southern end of Campobello Island, New Brunswick, just offshore of Lubec, Maine. The cottage, built in the Shingle Style and completed in 1897, was designed by Willard T. Sears.
[edit] Administrative history
The park is owned and administered by the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission, created by international treaty signed by Governor General Georges Vanier, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, and President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 22, 1964. The park was established on July 7, 1964. Both countries provide financial support to the park. It is an affiliated area of Parks Canada and of the U.S. National Park Service.
Charter members of the board of the international commission included U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., and Lubec, Maine resident Sumner T. Pike.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Stephen O. Muskie, Campobello: Roosevelt’s Beloved Island (1982)
- ^ Two articles by Donald R. Larrabee, one each from Bangor Daily News and Maine Sunday Telegram, entered in Congressional Record – Senate, June 10, 1975, page 18115, by Sen. Edmund Muskie, in Bates College Muskie archives.
- The National Parks: Index 2001-2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior.
[edit] External links
- Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission
- National Park Service: Roosevelt Campobello International Park
- Transboundary Protected Areas for Peace and Co-operation
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- IUCN Category V
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- National Historical Parks of the United States
- Parks in New Brunswick
- Peace parks
- Geography of Charlotte County, New Brunswick
- Protected areas established in 1964
- Cummings and Sears buildings
- Museums in New Brunswick
- Historic house museums in Canada
- Buildings and structures in Charlotte County, New Brunswick
- Visitor attractions in Charlotte County, New Brunswick
