Stop 21 Campobello Island

We learned that this is the the world's only park managed by 2 countries.  Campobello Island became a trendy resort before the civil war.  The well heeled came from Boston, NY and Canada.
 
FDRs parents came, staying in a hotel.  The tourist boom declined, the hotel closed, and his parents built a small cottage and came most summers.  His mom later bought a large, ~34 rooms, "cottage" which she gave to FDR and Eleanor as a belated wedding gift.  His last two children were born here.  Everything in the cottage is original, including his hat, pipe and cigarette holder on this table in the living room.  It was in this upstairs bedroom where he was told he had polio.

The nautical painting, of a civil was scene, hung in his office in the White House.

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