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adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week our National Park tour takes us to Everglades National Park at the Southern tip of Florida. The park itself protects roughly 1.5 million acres of…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Straddling the border between North Carolina and Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park encompasses over 520,000 acres, including the Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains that are home…
adminHot Springs National Park was officially designated as a national park on March 4, 1921, but was recognized as the Hot Springs Reservation in April of 1832. It was the…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Acadia National Park was originally recognized on July 8, 1916, as Sieur de Monts National Monument, then as Lafayette National Park on February 26, 1919. Both names…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher In October of 1776, two Spanish Priests, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez traveled up the Virgin River Valley on an exploration mission of the…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Formerly known as Mount McKinley National Park, Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska was originally established on Feb. 17, 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation…
adminExcelsior Springs Historic downtown district suffers yet another setback as the old Royal Hotel, located at 210 South Street is being demolished brick by brick after part of its 122…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week our tour of National Parks takes us to the Big Island of Hawaii as we visit Volcanoes National Park. On August 1, 1916, House Resolution…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week, we visit the top of the world in terms of National Parks in the lower 48 United States. Part of a Linen era postcard folder…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor The United States Congress was setting aside lands for national parks years before they had created a department to oversee those lands. Yellowstone, the first national park,…
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