Tuesday 22 July 2014
Acadia National Park
is a National Park located in the U.S. state of Maine. It reserves much of Mount
Desert Island, and associated smaller islands, off the Atlantic coast.
Originally created as Lafayette
National Park in 1919, the oldest
National Park east of the Mississippi River,
it was renamed Acadia in 1929. The landscape architect Charles Eliot is
credited with the idea for the park. George B. Dorr, called the "father of
Acadia National Park," along with Charles's father Charles W., the
president of Harvard, supported the idea both through donations of land and
through advocacy at the state and federal levels. It first attained federal
status when President Woodrow Wilson, established it as Sieur de Monts National
Monument on July 8, 1916, administered by the National Park Service. On
February 26, 1919, it became a national park, with the name Lafayette National
Park in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, an influential French supporter of
the American Revolution. Source
