Franklin D. Roosevelt route across Tholen

This cycle route starts with a cup of coffee at Huys van Roosevelt, an appropriate starting point for today's route. The ancestors of former American presidents Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt probably come from Oud-Vossemeer. In any case, they descended from Claes Martensen van Rosenvelt, a Dutchman who set foot in New York around 1650. There is a good chance that he came from the Zeeland island of Tholen, where there was a piece of land that had been known as the Rosevelt for centuries. This route passes places where the family had land and/or farms. Along the way you will also discover the Oude Stoomgemaal, the Roosevelt Information Center (in the Ambachtsherenhuis), the Four Freedoms monument, the former Huize Roosevelt,'t old Smidsklokje, the NH church and windmill De Jager.