[Geysers] National park quarters announced

[Bill Warnock]

Where is Colorado, Rocky Mountain National Park, 1914?????

The Assistant Curmudgeon
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  Subject: [Geysers] National park quarters announced


  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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