Roosevelt Campobello International Park
| Roosevelt Campobello International Park | |
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IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape) | |
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| Location | Campobello Island, New Brunswick |
| Nearest city | Saint John, New Brunswick |
| Area | 2,721.50 acres (11.01 km²) |
| Established | July 7, 1964 |
| Governing body | Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission |
Roosevelt Campobello International Park preserves the house and surrounding landscape of the Roosevelt summer retreat where, in August 1921, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with poliomyelitis at the age of 39. The park occupies most of the southern end of Campobello Island, New Brunswick, just offshore of Lubec, Maine.
Administrative history
The park is owned and administered by the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission, created by international treaty signed by 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 the National Park Service (U.S.) and Parks Canada.
Charter members of the board of the international commission included U.S. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr, and Lubec, Mainer Sumner T. Pike.[1]
References
- The National Parks: Index 2001-2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior.
External links
- Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission
- National Park Service: Roosevelt Campobello International Park
- ^ 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.