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Carriage Road Sign, Acadia National Park
Around 1917
Acadia National Park -- established in 1919 -- was America's first national park east of the Mississippi River, and the first created solely from private land donations. In the early 1900s George B. Dorr, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and others worked to preserve the islands off Maine's coast. Members of Friends of Acadia continue to support the park. |