Catoctin Mountain Park Historic Resource Study

¹Negrello interview.

²The Mountaineer, September 1941.

³"National Park Service War Work," December 7, 1941-June 30, 1944," RG 79, Records of the National Park Service, Records of Newton B. Drury, 1940-1941, box 25, NA.

⁴Mathew Huppuch to Wirth, 14 June 1941, RG 79, Records of the NPS, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program File, 1934-1947, box 57, NA. In the fall, of that year with their numbers down somewhat the sailors did move to Mount Lent.

⁵Herbert Evision to Stephen Thompson, 26 February 1942, RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 14, NA; Kirkconnell, 84-85; Negrello interview.

⁶A.P. Bursley, "Memorandum of the Director," 20 June 1941, RG 79, Records of the National Park Service, Records of the Branch of Recreation, Land Planning and State Cooperation, Records Concerning WPA Projects, 1935-1943, box 4, NA.

⁷"Memorandum of the First Assistant Secretary," 3 July 1941, RG 79 Records of Branch of Recreation Land Planning and State Cooperation, Records Concerning WPA Projects, 1935-1943, box 1, NA.

⁸"Memo for Mr. Wirth," 31 December 19341, RG 79, Records of Branch of Recreation Land Planning and Sate Cooperation, Records Concerning WPA Projects, 1935-1943, box 1, NA.

⁹"National Park Service War Work, December 7,-June 30 1944," RG 79, Records of New B. Drury, 1940-1951, box 25, NA.

¹⁰Kirkconnell, 94, 108.

¹¹Fred T. Johnson, Acting Regional Director to Robert Catee, Washington County Girl Scout Council, 6 May 1942, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 31, NA.

¹²Catoctin Enterprise, 10 April 1942.

¹³Hillory A. Tollson, "Memorandum of the Secretary," 22 January 1943, RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 61, NA.

¹⁴"Narrative Report for Month of April, 1942," RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 61, NA.

¹⁵Reginald Spear, telephone interview by author, San Marino, CA, 3 March 2000.

¹⁶Baltimore Evening Sun, 26 July 1948.

¹⁷G.B. Williams to Conrad Wirth, 12 December 1942, CMP.

¹⁸Garland Williams, "Memorandum for the Director," 15 July 1945, RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 61, NA.

¹⁹War Dept Corps of Engineers Real Estate Branch Map, "Showing Government Property Catoctin Area," Map, May 26, 1942," RG 79 Records of the National Park Service, Records of the Office of the Chief Counsel, Legislative Files, 1932-1950, box 76, NA. The properties (totaling 274.75 acres) included:

Tract 21 Church of the Brethren Inc, 15 acres (leased not purchased)

Tract 114 Eddie Dziura et ux, 2 acres

Tract 125 Aaron Strauss Inc, 20 acres

Tract 125a Aaron Strauss Inc, 28 acres

Tract 154 Victor Brown, 23.75 acres

Tract 149a Church of the Brethren, Inc 15 acres (leased not purchased)

Tract 279a Samuel T. Royer, 12 acres

Tract 284 Ralph W. Miller et ux, 9 acres

Tract 305 Horace D. Rouser et al, 37 acres

²⁰Drury to Harold D. Smith, 17 August 1942, RG 79, Records Concerning WPA Projects, 1935-1943, box 1, NA. The twelve workers apparently did not include those assigned to Roosevelt's Shangri-La construction project.

²¹"Telephone Conversation with Manager Williams, Catoctin RDA," 10 December 1942, RG 79, RDA Program Files, 1934-1947, box 58, NA.

²²"Report to Accompany Master Plan of Catoctin Demonstration Area," 24 February 1942, CMP.

²³Williams to Roger Willard, 26 June 1942, RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 60, NA.

²⁴Kathie Hogan, "A Secret in the Catoctin Mountains, A History of Camp David," (Honors Paper, Hood College, 1979); W. Dale Nelson, The President is at Camp David, (Syracuse, NY: 1995).

²⁵Frederick News, 11 May 1935. Washington dignitaries frequently joined Brewster at his fishing lodge near Catoctin Furnace. In 1935 visitors included Senators Willard E. Tydings and George Radcliffe as well as Vice President John Nance Gardner.

²⁶Catoctin Clarion, 19 April 1935.

²⁷Nelson, 6.

²⁸Wirth to Ickes, 16 April 1942, RG 79, Records of Key Officials, Records of Newton B. Drury, box 4, NA.

²⁹Durary to Ickes, 23 April 1942, RG 79, Records of Key Officials, Records of Newton B. Drury, box 4, NA.

³⁰Nelson, 6.

³¹"Maryland: Catoctin Mountain, Shangri-La, 1942," FDR Library, Hyde Park, NY.

³²Album 461, FDR Library; Demaray, "Memorandum of the First Assistant Secretary, 9 July 1942, RG 79, Records of RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 60, NA.

³³Lewis interview.

³⁴Winston Churchill, The Hinge of Fate (Boston, 1950), 797.

³⁵Baltimore Sun, 6 September 1978.

³⁶Samuel Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (New York, 1952), 349.

³⁷Churchill, 797.

³⁸James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: the Soldier of Freedom (New York 1970), 291, 283.

³⁹Tresselt interview.

⁴⁰Baltimore Sun, 1 October 1945.

⁴¹Baltimore Sun, 1 October 1945.

⁴²Baltimore Sun, 16 September 1945.

⁴³Chicago Daily News, 22 October 1943; see annotated clipping, RG 79 Records concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 59, NA.

⁴⁴Catoctin Enterprise, 22 October 1943.

⁴⁵ Louise McPherson to Roosevelt, 21 October 1943, Presidential Personal Files, PPF 8086, FDR Library.

⁴⁶Barbara Kirkconnell interview with Conrad Wirth, Washington, DC, 3 March 1986, CMP.

⁴⁷FDR: Day by Day- The Pare Lorentz Chronology, FDR Library.

⁴⁸Times-Herald, 1 October 1945.

⁴⁹Chicago Tribune, 21 September 1945.

⁵⁰"Individual Fire Report for Building on Government Property," RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 61, NA.

⁵¹"Report to Accompany Master Plan of Catoctin Demonstration Area." 24 February 1942, CMP; Baltimore American, 23 February 1941.

⁵²George H. Filed To Newton Drury, Director of NPS, 5 December 1942, RG 79 Records of Branch of Recreation of Land Planning and State Cooperation, Records Concerning WPA Projects, 1935-1943, box 1, NA.

⁵³Catoctin Enterprise, 28 January 1944.

⁵⁴Catoctin Enterprise, 2 June 1944.

⁵⁵Catoctin Enterprise, 2 October 1942; Catoctin Enterprise, 11 December 1942; George Calcott, Maryland and America, 1940-1980 (Baltimore, 1985), 32.

⁵⁶Lewis interview.

⁵⁷Catoctin Enterprise, 20 July 1945.

⁵⁸Catoctin Enterprise, 14 July, 1944.

⁵⁹Catoctin Enterprise, 11 June 1943.

⁶⁰Helen Hammond, "The Year the Nazis Came to Frederick," Frederick Magazine, June 1996. 28-30.

⁶¹Catoctin Enterprise, 30 May 1947; Frederick News, 30 July 1980.

⁶²Summary of Correspondence Relative to Interests of the State of Maryland in Catoctin Recreational Demonstration Area," RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs RDA Program Files, box 60, NA.

⁶³FDR to Ickes, 8 June 1942, "Statement by Roosevelt on his veto of an Act Affecting Recreation Demonstration Projects," 11 August 1939, in Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911-1945, vol. II, Edgar B. Nixon, ed. , (New York, 1957), 376, 556. In 1939, FDR vetoed H.R. 3959 also designed to return the RDAs to the states. The president feared that it did not contain enough safeguards to protect land after the transfers.

⁶⁴Wirth to H.S. Fairbanks, 14 January 1943, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Riles, box 15, NA.

⁶⁵Ickes to Roosevelt, 28 August 1943, RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 60, NA.

⁶⁶"A Resolution Calling upon the Federal Government to Return the Catoctin National Recreation Area to the State of Maryland," transferred with M.E. Tyding to Drury, 1 July 1944, RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 60, NA.

⁶⁷John Boley, "Review of the Catoctin Story," 26 September 1987, CMP. Boley concluded that the "main political pressure for obtaining Catoctin, or parts thereof, by Maryland, came from Maryland hunters."

⁶⁸Lewis interview.

⁶⁹Drury to Tyding, 5 June 1945; Kaylor to Hillory Tolson, 1 June 1945, RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, RDA Program Files, box 60, NA.

⁷⁰"Summary of Correspondence Relative to Interests of the State of Maryland in Catoctin Recreational Demonstration Area," RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs RDA Program Files, box 60, NA.

⁷¹Ibid.

⁷²Kaylor to Thomas J. Allen, 5 March 1946, RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, Program Files, box 60, NA. Kaylor began his letter: "We are still smarting under the sting of having the Park Service come in and purchase the Catoctin recreational area, which we were promised would be returned to the state."

⁷³Fredrick News, 9 January 1947. Although the formal legislation remained tied up in Congress, Mike Williams began officially reporting to the National Capital Areas Parks on January 1, 1947.

⁷⁴A.E. Demaray, "Confidential," 25 November 1946, RG 79, Records Concerning RDAs, Program Files, box 60, NA.

⁷⁵Catoctin Enterprise, 8 August 1947.

⁷⁶Baltimore Sun, 23 June 1948.

⁷⁷Buckingham, "Catoctin Area," The Old Line Acorn, January-April 1948, 5. Buckingham claimed that Maryland was willing to allow Shangri-La to remain in federal hands, but wanted the rest of the park be turned over to the state.

⁷⁸Catoctin Enterprise, 25 June 1948.

⁷⁹Catoctin Enterprise, 27 May 1949; H.R. 4405, introduced into the 81st Congress on April 27, 1949 was essentially the same bill as its predecessor, H.R. 3807, although the public relations stress use and the park service found another sponsor.