{"id":3903,"date":"2015-01-29T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:25:48","slug":"a-historic-moment-for-the-national-park-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/a-historic-moment-for-the-national-park-service\/","title":{"rendered":"A Historic Moment for the National Park Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 9, 1933, newly inaugurated President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to take a day trip to Shenandoah National Park to inspect a fishing lodge on the Rapidan River that had been donated to the park by his predecessor, President Herbert Hoover, to see if he wanted to use the building as his retreat.<\/p>\n<p>FDR invited\u00a0Horace Albright, the director of the National Park Service, to ride along, and on\u00a0the return trip, Albright took the opportunity to describe the Civil War battles at\u00a0Manassas on the land where the fighting had taken place.\u00a0 The land was in\u00a0private ownership at the time, and as the story went, they stopped at Stone\u00a0House, located at the intersection of Routes 211 and 234.\u00a0 Albright made the\u00a0pitch to have battlefields administered by the War Department, as well as a\u00a0number of other historic sites administered by the Department of Agriculture and\u00a0other agencies, transferred to the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3905 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Manassas-Stone-House-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Manassas Stone House\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Manassas-Stone-House-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Manassas-Stone-House-681x1024-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Manassas-Stone-House-681x1024-664x999.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Manassas-Stone-House-681x1024-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Manassas-Stone-House-681x1024-570x857.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Manassas-Stone-House-681x1024-16x24.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Manassas-Stone-House-681x1024-24x36.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Manassas-Stone-House-681x1024-32x48.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When they returned to Washington, FDR asked Albright to put his money where\u00a0his mouth was and to prepare a proposal along the lines of what he had\u00a0suggested at Stone House.\u00a0 Albright made his proposal, and within days, the\u00a0president issued two executive orders transferring more than 20 military parks,\u00a0historic battlefields, and monuments to the Park Service, as well as more than a\u00a0dozen non-military historic sites. Among them were the Statue of Liberty and\u00a0Mount Rushmore and of the District of Columbia\u2019s most hallowed places,\u00a0including the Lincoln Memorial, the other monuments on the National Mall, and\u00a0Rock Creek Park. \u00a0In all, over 50 parks, monuments, and historic sites came\u00a0under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3906 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Cannon on Gettysburg Battlefield\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681-920x612.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681-900x599.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681-570x379.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.hallowedground.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gettysburg-Cannon-1024x681-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today, many of the centerpieces in the \u201cJourney Through Hallowed Ground,\u201d\u00a0administered by the National Park Service, as a result of these executive orders,\u00a0have created a wonderful partnership that has and will continue to benefit all\u00a0Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 9, 1933, newly inaugurated President Franklin D. 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