FDR Smokestack Memorial – Long Wharf Park, Cambridge

Cambridge Long Wharf

Cambridge Long Wharf

Roosevelt's MemorialThere are a couple of monuments honoring President Roosevelt on the the Delmarva Peninsula. One of them located at Long Wharf Park in Cambridge, MD is smokestack for the Presidential Yacht USS Potomac that was converted to an elevator to allow the president to move between the upper and lower decks.

This is not the only Memorial at Long Wharf Park. There is also a World War memorial and a monument dedicated to five WWI heroes who won the Distinguished Service Cross. The names of Lt. Henry Barber Jr., Pvt. Harry Insley, Pvt. James Miller, Sgt. Carl Horseman, and Cpl. Harford Smith are engraved in the dark stone.

Long Wharf World War Memorial

Long Wharf World War Memorial

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