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FDR Smokestack Memorial – Long Wharf Park, Cambridge

August 23, 2024August 24, 2024Steve Atkinson

There are a couple of monuments honoring President Roosevelt on the the Delmarva Peninsula. One of them located at Long Wharf Park in Cambridge, MD is smokestack for the Presidential Yacht USS Potomac that was converted to an elevator to allow the president to move between the upper and lower decks. This is not the […]

Roosevelt’s Visit to Denton, Labor Day 1938

August 9, 2024August 8, 2024Across Our Desk

Did you know that on Labor Day, September 5, 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Maryland’s Eastern Shore where he delivered a nationally broadcast speech from Denton, Caroline County. Newspaper accounts said that were 5000 to 10,000 people in attendance to watch Roosevelt deliver his speech from a podium across the street from the […]

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FDR Smokestack Memorial – Long Wharf Park, Cambridge

Roosevelt’s Visit to Denton, Labor Day 1938

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