Catoctin Mountain Park Pamphlets

Author : Edmund F. Wehrle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282919351
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Catoctin Mountain Park written by Edmund F. Wehrle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catoctin Mountain Park: An Historic Resource Study The narrative takes a new direction in Chapter 5. In 1935, as part of a New Deal program to develop recreation areas near urban populations and address the problem of farmers working submarginal land, the federal government began purchasing mountain land for a planned recreational demonstration area. The acquisition and construction process, chronicled in Chapter 5, was anything but smooth. The final chapter treats the military's use of the park during World War II as well as the establishment and early use of the presidential retreat President Franklin D. Roosevelt called shangri-la. Finally, tensions between the state of Maryland and the federal government over the fate of Catoctin Recreational Demonstration Area are described. In the end, a compromise allowed the National Park Service to retain a large portion of the originally-purchased area, while the state of Maryland took over the southern portion of the park. This compromise between two opposing forces might be seen as representative of the many compromises and accommodations made over time - all of which ultimately shaped the present-day park. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.