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Theodore Roosevelt Island

Theodore Roosevelt Island · George Washington Memorial Pkwy, Arlington, DC

In the 1930s, landscape architects transformed Mason’s Island from neglected, overgrown farmland into Theodore Roosevelt Island, a memorial to America’s 26th president. They conceived a “real forest” designed to mimic the natural forest that once covered the island. Today miles of trails through woo