Roosevelt Campobello International Park

Roosevelt Campobello International Park
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
Location	Campobello Island, New Brunswick
Nearest city	Saint John, New BrunswickNearest city: Saint John, New Brunswick
Coordinates	44°52′33″N 66°57′33″W / 44.87583°N 66.95917°W / 44.87583; -66.95917Coordinates: 44°52′33″N 66°57′33″W / 44.87583°N 66.95917°W / 44.87583; -66.95917
Area	2,721.50 acres (11.01 km²)
Established	July 7, 1964 Established: July 7, 1964
Governing body	Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission

The cottage at Campobello

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. 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 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]

[edit] References

• 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

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