Word: swannanoa
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...first time a Republican President had ever made a visit of any duration in Virginia. Crowds cheered the Coolidge progress through Staunton and Waynesboro to the Swannanoa Country Club, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Thanksgiving gifts poured up the mountain-a monster fruit cake, a dozen quail, a juicy Virginia ham, six boxes of apples, a monster turkey...
...company and the city." ¶ In consideration of $15.50, the State of Virginia issued a nonresident hunting license to Calvin Coolidge. Col. E. W. Starling of the Coolidge staff conferred with Game Commissioner Major A. Willis Robertson in Richmond, ..about a Presidential bird shoot, over fine-nosed dogs, at Swannanoa Country Club in the Blue Ridge Mountains the two days following Thanksgiving...
...Pound of Chattanooga, on historic Lookout Mountain. Governor Byrd of Virginia and small Boiling Byrd Flood, son of the late Representative Henry D. Flood of Virginia, and C. Bascom Slemp, the President's oldtime (1923-25) private secretary, called and offered the Swannanoa Country Club, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, only four hours from Washington. . . . President Coolidge thanked them all but said it was too early to decide...