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The Roosevelt's summer home on Campobello Island. |
During our visit to Franklin Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park, NY, we noticed many photos of the young Roosevelt at his family's summer home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, just across the Canadian border from Lubec, Maine. The home and surrounding gardens are now part of Roosevelt Campobello International Park, the only national park in the world administered by two countries. Franklin Roosevelt spent most summers here while he was young and it was here in 1920 that his polio symptoms first appeared, although he apparently contracted the disease at a Boy Scout camp in New York. Amazingly enough, he only visited the estate three more times after 1920, most likely due to his blossoming political career. Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin's mother, Sara, continued to use the house for many years however. The park offers house tours, walking trails, and amazing views of the Bay of Fundy and its spectacular coast.