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ACADIA NATIONAL PARK MAINE 'Porcupine Islands from the Cadillac V)tountain lyoad UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Secretary NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HORACE M. ALBRIGHT, Director GENERAL INFORMATION REGARDING ACADIA NATIONAL PARK MAINE A OPEN ALL YEAR SUMMER SEASON JUNE 15 TO OCTOBER 15 1933 UNITED STATES THE OCEAN FRONT AT OTTER CLIFF GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1933 IMPORTANT EVENTS IN ACADIA'S HISTORY 1604. Mount Desert Island discovered and named by Samuel de Champlain, September 5. 1613. First Missionary colony in America established on Mount Desert Island. 1688. Island granted to Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac by Louis XIV. 1760. Island given by Massachusetts to Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of Massachusetts. 1790. Island divided into two parts; eastern half granted by Massachusetts to M. and Mine, de Gregoire; western half to John Bernard. CONTENTS 1855. First " summer visitors" recorded as vacationing on Mount Desert Page Island. Important events in Acadia's history u 1868. Steamboat service from Boston to the island inaugurated. Rules and regulations, briefed u 1888. Scenic railway built from shore of Eagle Lake to summit of Cadillac The National Parks at a glance iv (Green) Mountain. A historical sketch 1 The story of Mount Desert Island 2 1901. Charter granted by Maine Legislature to Hancock County Trustees of A wild-life sanctuary 6 Public Reservations to acquire and hold in the public interest land on Mount Desert Island. Motor roads 8 1908. First gift of land to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Motor travel 8 Information 8 Mrs. Eliza Homans, of Boston, Massachusetts, donor. How to reach the park 9 1914. Five thousand acres of land on Mount Desert Island tendered to the Motor camping 9 Government as a national park by the Hancock County Trustees of Carriage roads and bridle paths 9 Public Reservations. Trails and footpaths 9 1916. Tract accepted by Government and proclaimed by President Wilson to be Guides 10 the Sieur de Monts National Monument. Motor and boat trips 10 1919. Act of Congress, approved February 26, creating Lafayette National Park, Fishing 10 Museums 10 the first national park east of the Mississippi River. Literature and maps 11 1927. Jordan Pond Road, a scenic motor highway begun in 1922, completed. Government publications 11 1928. Park name changed from Lafayette to Acadia. Distributed free by the National Park Service 11 1929. Schoodic Peninsula added to park. Sold by the Superintendent of Documents 12 1931. Cadillac Mountain Summit Road completed. Work on this highway Other national parks 12 began in 1925. References 12 Accommodations outside the park 13 Transportation 13 RULES AND REGULATIONS Rules and regulations 15 (BRIEFED) General regulations 15 Automobile and motor-cycle regulations 18 FIRES.—No fires shall be kindled without first obtaining permission from the in superintendent or his representative. They must be completely extinguished before leaving. CAMPS.—No camping permitted except within the regular camp grounds. TREES, FLOWERS, AND ANIMALS.—Trees and shrubs must not be cut or broken. Flowers must not be picked. Birds and animals must not be molested. The injury or defacement of any natural feature is prohibited. REFUSE.—Do not throw paper, lunch refuse, or other trash on the roads, trails, or elsewhere. Deposit all such in the waste cans provided for the purpose. ADVERTISEMENTS.—Private notices or advertisements shall not be posted or displayed in the park. AUTOMOBILES.—Drive carefully at all times. Obey the park speed limit and other automobile regulations. n THE NATIONAL PARKS AT A GLANCE [Number, 22; total area, 13,177.20 square miles] Area in Name of park Location square Distinctive characteristics miles Acadia 18.74 The group of granite mountains upon Mount 1919 Desert Island and also bold point on opposite mainland across Frenchmans Bay—Formerly ACADIA NATIONAL PARK Bryce Canvon Southwestern Utah. r\=>. or> Box canyons filled with countless array of fantas 1928 tically eroded pinnacles—Best exhibit of vivid Carlsbad Caverns Southwestern New 1. 12 Beautifully decorated limestone caverns, believed A HISTORICAL SKETCH 1930 Mexico. to be largest yet discovered. Crater Lake Southwestern Ore 250.52 Lake of extraordinary blue in crater of extinct 1902 gon. volcano—Sides 1,000 feet high—Interesting lava formations—Fine fishing. Our national parks are areas of superlative scenery which are set General Grant Middle eastern Cali 3.96 Created to preserve the celebrated General Grant apart and maintained by the Federal Government for the use and 1890 fornia. Tree, and grove of Big Trees. Glacier Northwestern Mon 1,533.88 Rugged mountain region of unsurpassed alpine enjoyment of the people. They are the people's property; the 1910 tana. character—250 glacier-fed lakes of romantic beauty—60 small glaciers—Precipices thou Government, the people's agent and trustee. sands of feet deep—World-famous scenery of marked individuality—Fine trout fishing. Few in number, but covering an extraordinary range of land Grand Canyon North central Ari 1, 009. 08 The greatest example of erosion and the most 1919 zona. sublime spectacle in the world. scape interest, they have all, with few exceptions, been formed by Grand Teton Northwestern Wyo 150 Includes most spectacular portion of Teton 1929 ming. Mountains, and uplift of unusual grandeur. setting aside for park purposes lands already held in ownership by Great Smoky Moun North Carolina- 465.18 This area is not to be developed as a national tains, Tennessee. park until at least 427,000 acres have been the United States and lie in the nationally younger regions of the 1930 donated to the United States, as specified in the organic act. Meanwhile the park area of 297,719.7 acres already in Federal ownership is country to the westward of the Mississippi. being protected by the National Park Service. The first exception is Acadia National Park, occupying old French Hawaii.. Hawaii 245 Interesting volcanic areas—Kilauea and Mauna Loa, active volcanoes on the island of Hawaii; 1916 Haleakala, a huge dormant volcano on the is territory on the coast of Maine and created in 1919 from lands col land of Maui. lected during the previous decade and presented to the Government. Hot Springs ... Middle Arkansas 1.48 47 hot springs said to possess healing properties- Many hotels and boarding houses—19 bath 1921 houses under Government supervision. Re The name it bears commemorates the ancient French possession of served by Congress in 1832 as the Hot Springs Reservation to prevent exploitation of hot the land and the part it had in the long contest to control the des tinies and development of North America. The park is unique as Lassen Volcanic.. ... Northern California. 163. 32 Only recently active volcano in United States 1916 proper—Lassen Peak, 10,453 feet—Cinder cone, a member of the national system in its contact with the ocean and 6,913 feet—Hot springs—Mud gevsers. Mesa Verde Southwestern Colo 80.21 Most notable and best preserved prehistoric cliff inclusion "of nationally owned coastal waters in its recreational 1906 rado. dwellings in United States, if not in the world. South central Alaska- 3, 030. 46 Highest mountain in North America—Rises territory. 1917 higher above surrounding country than any other mountain in the world. Acadia National Park lies surrounded by the sea, occupying as its Mount Rainier West central Wash 377. 78 Largest accessible single peak glacier system; 28 ington. glaciers, some of large size; 48 square miles of 1899 glacier, 50 to 500 feet thick—Wonderful subal- nucleus and central feature the bold range of the Mount Desert pine wild-flower fields. Mountains, whose ancient uplift, worn by immeasurable time and Piatt Southern Oklahoma. 1.32 Sulphur and other springs said to possess healing 1902 properties. recent ice erosion, remains to form the largest rock-built island on Rocky Mountain North middle Colo 405. 33 Heart of the Rockies—Snowy range, peaks 11,000 1915 rado. to 14,255 feet altitude—Remarkable records of our Atlantic coast; " l'Isle des Monts deserts," as Champlain named glacial period. Sequoia . Middle eastern Cali 604 The Big Tree National Park—Scores of sequoias it, with the keen descriptive sense of the early French explorers. 1890 fornia. 20 to 30 feet in diameter, thousands over 10 feet in diameter, General .Sherman Tree, 36.5 feet in diameter and 272.4 feet high—Towering The coast of Maine, like every other boldly beautiful coast region mountain ranges—Startling precipices—Mount in the world whose origin is nonvolcanic, has been formed by the Wind Cave South Dakota 18.47 Cavern having several miles of galleries and flooding of an old and water-worn land surface, which has turned 1903 numerous chambers containing peculiar forma- its heights into islands and headlands, its stream courses into arms Yellowstone- Northwestern Wyo 3, 437. 87 More geysers than in all rest of world together- 1872 ming, southwest Boiling springs—Mud volcanoes—Petrified for ern Montana, ests—Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, re and reaches of the sea, its broader valleys into bays and gulfs. The and northeastern markable for gorgeous coloring—Large lakes- Idaho. Many large streams and waterfalls—Vast wil Gulf of Maine itself is such an ancient valley, the deep-cut outlet derness, one of the greatest wild bird and ani mal preserves in the world—Exceptional trout of whose gathered waters may still be traced by soundings between Georges Bank and Nova Scotia, and whose broken and strangely Yosemite Middle eastern Cali 1,176.16 Valley of world-famed beauty—Lofty cliffs- 1890 fornia. Romantic vistas—Many waterfalls of extraor indented coast, 2,500 miles in length from Portland to St.