Explore off-the-beaten-track sites where commanders-in-chief went to chill out, from a resort town loved by FDR to Abraham Lincoln’s summer cottage
, the Coolidge summer White House “perhaps cemented the region’s status as the popular tourist attraction that it is today.”
It’s possible to recreate some of Coolidge’s South Dakota vacation today—from visiting Mount Rushmore to bunking at the wood-paneled State Game Lodge, still in operation andPresident Herbert Hoover is shown fishing in a stream at, located in what is now Shenandoah National Park in central Virginia. The camp, established in 1929, spread across 164 secluded acres and included multiple rustic cabins. The one the Hoovers used, Brown Cabin, still exists.
of Virginia within a month of assuming the presidency in March 1929. Located three-and-a-half hours from the White House, the Rapidan Camp was a compound made up of 13 cabins, plus rock gardens and waterfalls along the Rapidan River.notes that Hoover’s Summer White House “was the first complex specifically designed as a presidential retreat.” Hoover held meetings and conducted other official business from the camp, particularly during difficult years of the Great Depression. He also did a lot of fishing—a sport that Hoover loved.
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