President Benjamin Harrison, President Theodore Roosevelt Junior

1963 – F. Norman Clark Established The Roaring Camp Railroads

Hamilton Historical Records

In 1963, F. Norman Clark obtained ownership of a former logging railroad, which former Presidents Benjamin Harrison and Theodore Roosevelt had once rode.

Benjamin Harrison in his Union outfit during the U.S. Civil War.

The Roaring Camp Railroads has two train lines, a standard gauge train, a gauge which was established after the U.S. Civil War, which takes patrons down to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and another set of narrow gauge tracks, which was built after Roaring Camp Railroads was established, with allowed patrons to take steam engine trains to Bear Mountian.

Published by Hamilton Historical Records

I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.

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