208-PU-Folder 3b:   Roosevelt’s Shangri-La in Maryland Mountains, Thurmont, Maryland.  Seventy miles away from the nation’s capital hidden in the Catoctin Mountains was President Roosevelt’s “Shangri-La.”  It was his weekend retreat = kept secret until after the war.  It was build during the Depression 30’s and was originally one of the three unpretentious public resorts in the National Park.  Less than a mile away is Catoctin Furnace where Revolutionary troops forged cannon balls for the Battle of Yorktown.  Photo shows:  A unidentified bedroom and bath.   Office of War Information Collection.   (2016/08/30).
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