Hard times spark interest in New Deal tourist sites (AP)

From The Associated Press via USA Today:

By Tom Breen, Associated Press Writer

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The election of an ambitious new president in hard times is evoking comparisons with President Franklin Roosevelt, and the 75th anniversary of FDR's New Deal is sparking renewed interest in how Americans survived the Great Depression.

Now historic preservationists and tourism officials are hoping for increased tourism in places associated with the New Deal, like the town of Arthurdale, W.Va., which was built in the 1930s as a planned community for the rural poor.

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