Acquisition of Quantico Marine Reservation
This marks the site
where in May 1917
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
and
Major General Commandant George Barnett
cut the first tree symbolizing official
acquisition of the Marine Reservation
Quantico, Virginia.
Marker is at the intersection of Barnett Avenue and Labelle Street, on the right when traveling north on Barnett Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
