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Congress declares that the national park system, which began with establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, has since grown to include superlative natural, historic, and recreation areas in every major region of the United States, its territories and island possessions; that these areas, though distinct in character, are united ...
Rocky Mountain National Park. Archived from the original on November 8, 2020 This text is from Rocky Mountain National Park: a History by Curt Buchholtz; Buckley, Jay H.; Nokes, Jeffery D. (March 28, 2016). Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-61069-732-3.
Opponents, such as holders of land and mining claims, blocked efforts to reclassify the monument as a National Park for 11 years. Grand Canyon National Park was finally established as the 17th U.S. National Park by an Act of Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on February 26, 1919. [30] The National Park Service declared the ...
The largest national park is Wrangell–St. Elias in Alaska: at over 8 million acres (32,375 km 2), it is larger than each of the nine smallest states. The next three largest parks are also in Alaska. The smallest park is Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri, at 192.83 acres (0.7804 km 2).
Salem Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts, was the first national historic site to be established in the U.S. National Historic Site (NHS) and National Historical Park (NHP) are designations for officially recognized areas of nationally historic significance in the United States. They are usually owned and managed by the ...
Denali National Park and Preserve, at and by Heinrich C. Berann Geopolitical world map , by the Central Intelligence Agency 1572 map of Trier at History of Trier , by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg (edited by Palauenc05 )
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Manhattan Project National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park commemorating the Manhattan Project that is run jointly by the National Park Service and Department of Energy. The park consists of three units: one in Oak Ridge, Tennessee , one in Los Alamos, New Mexico and one in Hanford, Washington .