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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.

 

 

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt in NH and Maine 1940 (c) Copyright Strawbery Banke Museum . Photo by Doug Armsden on SeacoastNH.com

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