[Geysers] National park quarters announced

[TSBryan at aol.com]

The list isn't that long, so I'll just append it to this -- today the mint  
released the list of national parks (so called, see below) to be honored in 
the  series of US quarters starting in 2010.
 
You might recall that a few months ago I noted that Yellowstone would not  
necessarily be #1, and it isn't. More importantly, though, I do wonder who 
came  up with this list, and if there will be noise about it. Because, as you 
can see,  there are a number of places on the list that are not national 
parks. Like Mt.  Hood National Forest and Block Island National Wildlife 
Refuge, to name  two.
 
Ah, well, sez The Currrrrmudgeon
 
Scott Bryan
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US Mint list  of new national park quarters
By The Associated Press  (AP)

The U.S. Mint announced Wednesday that it will produce a series of  
quarters highlighting America's national parks, one per  state and territory, 
beginning next year. The coins will be minted based on the  dates the parks or 
historic sites were established and start with Arkansas' Hot Springs National  
Park, founded in 1832.

Here are the states,  with their images and the years in which they were 
established as federal  sites.

2010
Arkansas, Hot Springs National Park, 1832
Wyoming,  Yellowstone National Park, 1872
California, Yosemite National Park,  1890
Arizona, Grand Canyon National Park, 1893
Oregon, Mt. Hood National  Forest, 1893

2011
Pennsylvania, Gettysburg National Military Park,  1895
Montana, Glacier National Park, 1897
Washington, Olympic National  Park, 1897
Mississippi, Vicksburg National Military Park, 1899
Oklahoma,  Chickasaw National Recreation Area, 1902

2012
Puerto Rico, El Yunque  National Forest, 1903
New Mexico, Chaco Culture National Historical Park,  1907
Maine, Acadia National Park, 1916
Hawaii, Hawai'i Volcanoes National  Park, 1916
Alaska, Denali National Park, 1917

2013
New Hampshire,  White Mountain National Forest, 1918
Ohio, Perry's Victory and International  Peace Memorial, 1919
Nevada, Great Basin National Park, 1922
Maryland,  Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, 1925
South Dakota, Mount  Rushmore National Memorial, 1925

2014
Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains  National Park, 1926
Virginia, Shenandoah National Park, 1926
Utah, Arches  National Park, 1929
Colorado, Great Sand Dunes National Park,  1932
Florida, Everglades National Park, 1934

2015

Nebraska,  Homestead National Monument of America, 1936
Louisiana, Kisatchie National  Forest, 1936
North Carolina, Blue Ridge Parkway, 1936
Delaware, Bombay  Hook National Wildlife Refuge, 1937
New York, Saratoga National Historical  Park, 1938

2016
Illinois, Shawnee National Forest, 1939
Kentucky,  Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, 1940
West Virginia, Harpers Ferry  National Historical Park, 1944
North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt National  Park, 1946
South Carolina, Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument),  1948

2017
Iowa, Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1949
District of  Columbia, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, 1962
Missouri, Ozark  National Scenic Riverways, 1964
New Jersey, Ellis Island National Monument  (Statue of Liberty), 1965
Indiana, George Rogers Clark National Historical  Park, 1966

2018
Michigan, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore,  1966
Wisconsin, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, 1970
Minnesota,  Voyageurs National Park, 1971
Georgia, Cumberland Island National Seashore,  1972
Rhode Island, Block Island National Wildlife Refuge,  1973

2019

Massachusetts, Lowell National Historical Park,  1978
Northern Mariana Islands, American Memorial Park, 1978
Guam, War in  the Pacific National Historical Park, 1978
Texas, San Antonio Missions  National Historical Park, 1978
Idaho, Frank Church River of No Return  Wilderness, 1980

2020
American Samoa, National Park of American Samoa,  1988
Connecticut, Weir Farm National Historic Site, 1990
U.S. Virgin  Islands, Salt River Bay National Historical Park and 
Ecological Preserve,  1992
Vermont, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park,  1992
Kansas, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve,  1996

2021
Alabama, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, 1998


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