[Geysers] National park quarters announced

[Bruce Jensen]

The parks are also not necessarily listed at the correct dates - IIRC, "Great Basin National Park" still had about 70 or so years to go in 1921...They're probably talking about Lehman Cave NM, but nonetheless...

Do we want to preserve historical inaccuracy on our metal currency?

Bruce Jensen
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--- On Wed, 9/9/09, TSBryan at aol.com <TSBryan at aol.com> wrote:

> From: TSBryan at aol.com <TSBryan at aol.com>
> Subject: [Geysers] National park quarters announced
> To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
> Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 3:57 PM
> 
> 
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>  
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> 
> 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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> Copyright 
> © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 
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