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Dedicated in 1932 to honor George Washington’s 200th birthday, the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway linked Mount Vernon with the recently dedicated Arlington Memorial Bridge as the first modern motorway built by the federal government and won praise as “America’s Most Modern Highway.” Its innovative design featured landscaping, widely spaced access ramps, and overpasses instead of intersections. During the Great Depression, when thousands of Americans lost their jobs, part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal created the Civilian Conservation Corps to give jobless young men opportunities to earn money and learn trade skills. Men from CCC camp N.P. #6 at Fort Hunt planted over 250,000 trees and shrubs along the parkway.
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Mount Vernon, Virginia · United States
