Campobello Island
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Campobello Island is the largest and only inhabited island in Campobello Parish in Charlotte County in southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, near the border with Maine, United States. It is the site of
Head Harbour Lighthouse and station, Passamaquoddy Bay
Tyn-y-Coed
Campobello fisherman in 1973
Franklin D. Roosevelt on Campobello, 1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was the president of the United States from 1933 to 1945, began experiencing symptoms of a paralytic illness in 1921 when he was 39 years old. His main symptoms were fevers;
Campobello Island
…larger property — a 34-room "cottage" – which he used as a summer retreat until 1939. It was at Campobello, in August 1921, that the future president fell ill and was diagnosed with polio, which resulted in his total and permanent paralysis from the waist down. Roosevelt did strive to regain use of his legs…
Rare photograph of Roosevelt in a wheelchair, with Ruthie Bie and Fala (1941)
The Roosevelt family at Campobello (1920)
Roosevelt supporting himself on crutches at Springwood in Hyde Park, New York, with visitors including Al Smith (1924)
Franklin (showing leg brace) and Eleanor at Hyde Park (1927)