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    The original site for the Easter Egg Roll was on the grounds of the United States Capitol building in the mid-1870s, where children would turn the area into their playground on Easter Monday. However, the egg rolling activities started to damage the grounds. In 1872, Congress passed a law prohibiting the use of the Capitol grounds as a playground. By 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes allowed children to do their Easter egg rolling on the South Lawn of the White House instead after children asked him about it during one of his daily walks. This began the long-standing White House Easter Egg Roll tradition.

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    The original site for the Easter Egg Roll was on the grounds of the United States Capitol building in the mid-1870s, where children would turn the area into their playground on Easter Monday. However, the egg rolling activities started to damage the grounds. In 1872, Congress passed a law prohibiting the use of the Capitol grounds as a playground. By 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes allowed children to do their Easter egg rolling on the South Lawn of the White House instead after children asked him about it during one of his daily walks. This began the long-standing White House Easter Egg Roll tradition.

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    History of The White House Easter Egg Roll

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    The original site for the Easter Egg Roll was on the grounds of the United States Capitol building in the mid-1870s, where children would turn the area into their playground on Easter Monday. However, the egg rolling activities started to damage the grounds. In 1872, Congress passed a law prohibiting the use of the Capitol grounds as a playground. By 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes allowed children to do their Easter egg rolling on the South Lawn of the White House instead after children asked him about it during one of his daily walks. This began the long-standing White House Easter Egg Roll tradition.

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    History of the White House

    Easter Egg Roll


    The original site of the Easter Monday Egg Roll was the grounds of the United
    States Capitol. By the mid 187s! the egg rolling a"ti#ities on the $est Terra"es had
    gained notoriety as the "hildren turned the Capitol grounds into their Easter Monday
    playground. The first egg rolls! largely family affairs! seem to ha#e %een held during
    the administration of &resident 'ndrew (ohnson. )oungsters of the &resident*s
    family dyed eggs on Sunday for the Monday rolling! whi"h the +irst ,ady would
    wat"h from the South &orti"o. ' family mem%er has attested to hearing the stories of
    su"h a"ti#ity from 'ndrew (ohnson &atterson! the &resident*s grandson! who li#ed
    at the $hite -ouse while his mother ser#ed as $hite -ouse hostess on %ehalf of
    her in#alid mother! +irst ,ady Eli.a (ohnson. 'lthough small groups of egg rollers
    were reported on the $hite -ouse grounds under the presiden"y of /eneral
    Ulysses S. /rant! the ma0ority of egg rolling a"ti#ity and all day pi"ni"s too1 pla"e at
    the Capitol. The wor1ers and tourists wat"hed in fas"ination as the "hildren rolled
    %oth their hard %oiled eggs and themsel#es down the lush green hills.
    The egg roll a"ti#ity of 1872 too1 its toll on the grounds! a fa"t that did not go
    unnoti"ed %y mem%ers of Congress. $ith an already inade3uate %udget to "omplete
    the lands"aping and maintenan"e of the grounds! Congress passed a law for%idding
    the Capitol grounds to %e used as a "hildren*s playground. The law was to %e
    enfor"ed in 1877. But that Easter Monday rain poured down! "an"eling any outdoor
    a"ti#ities sending the egg rollers indoors to play.
    4n Easter Saturday of 1878! a small announ"ement in the lo"al press informed the
    egg rollers the new law would %e enfor"ed. &resident Rutherford B. -ayes! ta1ing
    his daily wal1! was approa"hed %y a num%er of young egg rollers who in3uired
    a%out the possi%ilities of egg rolling on the South ,awn of the $hite -ouse.
    Unfamiliar with the a"ti#ity 5his first Easter Monday as &resident had %een rained out
    the pro"eeding year6 &resident -ayes! upon his return to the $hite -ouse! in3uired
    amongst his staff who %riefed the attenti#e Chief E7e"uti#e. The smiling &resident
    issued an offi"ial order that should any "hildren arri#e to egg roll on Easter Monday!
    they were to %e allowed to do so. That Monday! as "hildren were %eing turned away
    from the Capitol grounds! word 3ui"1ly spread to go to the $hite -ouse8

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