President Roosevelt and his security detail were momentarily flustered when they arrived at Fort Raleigh on August 18, 1937, to find 15,000 people at the cramped 16th century site. Roosevelt spoke animatedly about “dreams as old as Roanoke” and endorsed a birth certificate for Virginia Dare on her 350th birthday. He also had a momentous announcement about a bill he had signed into law the night before, but he let Representative Lindsay Warren unveil the new project, Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Finally established in 1953, the seashore kept 70 running miles of the Outer Banks in a semi-natural state and reshaped American conservation.