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Potus Passes Portsmouth 1940
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Written by Strawbery Banke archive
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Strawbery Banke Presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #171
On April 10, 1940, with America approaching World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt motored through town on his way to the naval shipyard in Kittery, Maine. The photographer captured Roosevelt waving in his open car on Daniel Street. Just 55 minutes later the president boarded his yacht Potomac and sailed out of local history.
HISTORIC PHOTOS of the Greater Portsmouth Area appear here weekly

This image from the book STRAWBERY BANKE:
A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making
by J. Dennis Robinson
(c) Strawbery Banke Museum Collection

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