Collection Items
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MapA new & accurate map of the provinces of North & South Carolina, Georgia &c. Scale ca. 1:2,900,000. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 60." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1380 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Bowen, Emanuel
- Date: 1752-01-01
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ArticleMaps of Acadia National Park Acadia, established in 1919, was the first national park east of the Mississippi River. It was also the first national park on a coast, and the first to be donated to the federal government by private individuals who gave land that they had previously owned as well as land specifically purchased, in order to preserve it for the use of the public.
- Date: 1607