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Park service administrators felt that limiting the number of concessionaires in the park would be more financially sound. The Curry Company and its rival, the Yosemite National Park Company, were forced to merge in 1925 to form the Yosemite Park & Curry Company (YP&CC). [50] The company built the Ahwahnee Hotel in 1926–27. [51]
Eight years before Yellowstone was established as America’s first national park, President Abraham Lincoln signed a document called the Yosemite Valley Grant Act in 1864. This act protected ...
Humans may have lived in the Yosemite area as long as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. [1] Habitation of the Yosemite Valley proper can be traced to about 3,000 years ago, when vegetation and game in the region was similar to that present today; the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada had acorns, deer, and salmon, while the eastern Sierra had pinyon nuts and obsidian. [2]
The spelling was changed to "Yosemite" in 1908 and to "Yosemite National Park" in 1922. [5] In 1906, Major H.C. Benson was commanded to build and garrison Fort Yosemite in the valley. [5] US Army troops were stationed at Fort Yosemite until 1916, when the National Park Service was established to administer Yosemite and other national parks. [5]
The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular National Park. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1805-7. OCLC 714731511. Kruska, Dennis (2009). James Mason Hutchings of Yo Semite. A Biography and Bibliography. San Francisco: Book Club of California. ISBN 978-0-9819-5971-9. OCLC 461317451.
YP&CC also founded the Yosemite Winter Club and introduced the iconic Bracebridge Dinner, a seasonal event started in 1927 that became a hallmark of Yosemite's cultural offerings. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] Additionally, YP&CC expanded the High Sierra Camps , which offered guided camping trips in the park's backcountry, and founded the Yosemite Mountaineering ...
The first road completed was the Coulterville & Yosemite Turnpike, which opened in June 1874. Shortly after, the Chinese Camp & Yosemite Turnpike, later known as the Big Oak Flat Road, began operations. In 1875, the Washburn brothers completed the Wawona Road—the third road to reach Yosemite and the most enduring—providing access from the ...
The Mariposa Grove Museum stands on the site of the original Galen Clark Cabin. In 1930, the National Park Service built the current structure to display museum exhibits about the grove's history. [9] [10] [11] It is a one-story log structure measuring 20 feet (6.1 m) by 45 feet (14 m) and divided into two rooms.