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Camp David is a 125-acre (51 ha) country retreat for the president of the United States.It is located in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain Park, in Frederick County, Maryland, near the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of the national capital city of Washington, D.C. [1] [2] [3] It is code named Naval Support Facility Thurmont.
Area: 6,154 acres (24.90 km 2) [1] ... Camp David. The Presidential ... WA-IV-269, including boundary map, at Maryland Historical Trust website
Frederick County is a county located in Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 271,717. [2] The county seat is Frederick. [3] The county is part of the Capital region of the state. Like other outlying sections of the Washington metropolitan area, Frederick County has experienced a rapid population increase since ...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt turned a Maryland camp into a presidential retreat in 1942. President Dwight Eisenhower changed the name to "Camp David" after his grandson.
US President Dwight Eisenhower (1890 - 1965) (left) and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1874 - 1971) at Camp David, Maryland, September 25, 1959.
Joe Biden arrived on Friday for his first weekend as U.S. president at Camp David, the storied retreat in the mountains of western Maryland that many predecessors found to be a rustic getaway from ...
Catoctin Mountain traverses Frederick County, Maryland and extends into northern Loudoun County, Virginia.It rises to its greatest elevation of 1,900 feet (580 m) above sea level just southwest of Cunningham Falls State Park [3] and is transected by gaps at Braddock Heights (Fairview Pass), Point of Rocks on the Potomac River and Clarke's Gap west of Leesburg, as well as several other unnamed ...
Biden chose the rustic redoubt in the Maryland hills for the first U.S.-Japan-South Korea summit because Camp David has often been used to symbolize newfound or hard-won friendship, a senior ...