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Everglades National Park - President Truman

December 6, 1947 – President Truman Dedicates Everglades National Park.

– President Truman Dedicates Everglades Park – December 6, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1947, in the midst of Post-War reconstruction and upheaval, President Truman dedicated the Everglades National Park, an immense area of land…

FDR - Smoky Mountain National Park - Sept. 2, 1940

FDR Dedicates Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Sept. 2, 1940 – Past Daily Reference Room

Dedication of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, this September 2nd in 1940. FDR, as well as Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and many notables were on hand for the dedication, with the hopes it would serve to benefit…