United States Department of Transportation
ROSA P serves as an archival repository of USDOT-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, guidelines, recommendations, or other information authored or co-authored by USDOT or funded partners.
As a repository, ROSA P retains documents in their original published format to ensure public access to scientific information.
i
FDR On Skyline Drive
-
2016-12-12
[PDF-547.37 KB]
Details:
-
Alternative Title:The Day FDR Visited Skyline Drive
-
Corporate Creators:
-
Contributors:
-
Subject/TRT Terms:
-
Series:
-
Resource Type:
-
Right Statement:
-
Geographical Coverage:
-
Corporate Publisher:
-
Abstract:On April 8, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his wife Eleanor, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, NPS Director Horace M Albright, and other officials took a road trip that brought them to Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. Invited to ride with President Roosevelt in his seven-passenger open touring car for this leg of the trip, Albright joined Henry Morgenthau, Jr., then head of the Farm Credit Bureau but soon to be Treasury Secretary.
-
Content Notes:This PDF was downloaded from FHWA's Highway History website: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm.
-
Format:
-
Collection(s):
-
Main Document Checksum:
-
Download URL:
-
File Type:
Related Documents
-
[PDF - 1.22 MB]
[PDF - 1.13 MB]
[PDF - 1.02 MB]
[PDF - 1.01 MB]
[PDF - 2.39 MB]
[PDF - 2.27 MB]
[PDF - 2.33 MB]
[PDF - 747.08 KB]
[PDF - 643.06 KB]
[PDF - 624.54 KB]
[PDF - 617.79 KB]
[PDF - 380.44 KB]
[PDF - 330.31 KB]
[PDF - 328.51 KB]
[PDF - 610.64 KB]
[PDF - 42.13 MB]
