It is located in Catoctin Mountain park, near Thurmont, Maryland. It's about 62 miles north of Washington, DC. Official name is Naval Support Facility Thurmont and is a military installation.
THE PRESIDENT HAS A RETREAT CALLED CAMP DAVID
Hi-Catocin was the name originally given to the site by the WPA. When it first became a US Presidential retreat it was named the USS Shangri-la. It became Camp David in the Eisenhower administration.
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The Presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Frederick County Maryland is formally called the US Naval Support Facility Thurmont but is best known as Camp David.
Camp David
President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed the presidential retreat Camp David after his grandson and father, both with the name David. Originally named Hi-Catoctin, it was built as a camp for federal agents and their families. President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed it to a presidential retreat in 1942 and renamed it Shangri-La.
Camp David, located near Thurmont, Maryland, is a presidential retreat. Eisenhower named in honor of his grandson and his father.
The US presidential retreat at Camp David, near Washington.
Camp David, renamed by President Eisenhower, is the presidential retreat created by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The actual location is on the Catoctin Mountain in Maryland.
It was usually called a "retreat", as it is located in secluded woods. However, several Presidents have held meetings with heads of state at Camp David.
Originally Camp David was known as Hi-Catoctin. In 1942 it was converted into a presidential retreat and renamed "Shangri-La" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in honor of his father and grandson who shared the name, later renamed it Camp David.
Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use Camp David for a retreat. It was named for his grandson, David Eisenhower.
Washington DC
The Maryland Presididential Retreat that began with the Presidential term Shangri-La bestowed on it by FDR and switched to David by IKE to honor his grand-son, it is actually a US Navy installation designed for Presidential privacy, comfort and security.
Eisenhower changed the name of the presidential retreat in Maryland to Camp David from Shangri-La , in honor of his father and grandson.