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Rapidan Camp sign

A Visit to President Hoover’s Rapidan Camp

The story we dug up on Herbert Hoover’s rural camp the other week piqued our interest in learning more about it, and since it was within driving distance, we wanted to see it in person. Last weekend Ghosts of DC

Herbert and Lou Hoover on footbridge at Rapidan Camp

Lindbergh a Guest at Hoover’s Summer Camp; Horseshoe Champion of Rapidan

Stories like this are great. We forget that the men and women we read about in history books and Wikipedia were also normal people just like us — okay, most of them accomplished great things that we likely won’t be

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