<div>The dates listed are most questionable.  They may be when the site first received Natl designation of some sort but not it's final designation.  Colorado's Great Sand Dunes Natl Park was a National Monument from the listed date of 1932 but didn't become a Natl Park until the early 2000's.   Several quarters I have no problem (Getttysburg, Volcanos, Arcadia and Denali) but I am surely unhappy about many others (like I matter!). </div> <div>                   Rich Glasser<br> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: TSBryan@aol.com<br> To: geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu<br> Sent: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 4:57 pm<br> Subject: [Geysers] National park quarters announced<br> <br> </div> <div id=AOLMsgPart_3_88b7b23d-32cb-4bf7-a37a-d9c3dda4d720><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>Ah, well, sez The Currrrrmudgeon</div> <div> </div> <div>Scott Bryan</div> <div>------------------</div> <div> </div> <div> <div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><br> </SPAN><FONT size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">US</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Mint list of new national park quarters</SPAN></B></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><br> By The Associated Press (AP)<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Here are the states, with their images and the years in which they were established as federal sites.<br> <br> 2010<br> Arkansas, Hot Springs National Park, 1832<br> Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, 1872<br> California, Yosemite National Park, 1890<br> Arizona, Grand Canyon National Park, 1893<br> Oregon, Mt. Hood National Forest, 1893<br> <br> 2011<br> Pennsylvania, Gettysburg National Military Park, 1895<br> Montana, Glacier National Park, 1897<br> Washington, Olympic National Park, 1897<br> Mississippi, Vicksburg National Military Park, 1899<br> Oklahoma, Chickasaw National Recreation Area, 1902<br> <br> 2012<br> Puerto Rico, El Yunque National Forest, 1903<br> New Mexico, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, 1907<br> Maine, Acadia National Park, 1916<br> Hawaii, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, 1916<br> Alaska, Denali National Park, 1917<br> <br> 2013<br> New Hampshire, White Mountain National Forest, 1918<br> Ohio, Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, 1919<br> Nevada, Great Basin National Park, 1922<br> Maryland, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, 1925<br> South Dakota, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 1925<br> <br> 2014<br> Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1926<br> Virginia, Shenandoah National Park, 1926<br> Utah, Arches National Park, 1929<br> Colorado, Great Sand Dunes National Park, 1932<br> Florida, Everglades National Park, 1934<br> <br> 2015<br> <br> Nebraska, Homestead National Monument of America, 1936<br> Louisiana, Kisatchie National Forest, 1936<br> North Carolina, Blue Ridge Parkway, 1936<br> Delaware, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, 1937<br> New York, Saratoga National Historical Park, 1938<br> <br> 2016<br> Illinois, Shawnee National Forest, 1939<br> Kentucky, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, 1940<br> West Virginia, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, 1944<br> North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, 1946<br> South Carolina, Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument), 1948<br> <br> 2017<br> Iowa, Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1949<br> District of Columbia, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, 1962<br> Missouri, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, 1964<br> New Jersey, Ellis Island National Monument (Statue of Liberty), 1965<br> Indiana, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, 196 6<br> <br> 2018<br> Michigan, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, 1966<br> Wisconsin, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, 1970<br> Minnesota, Voyageurs National Park, 1971<br> Georgia, Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1972<br> Rhode Island, Block Island National Wildlife Refuge, 1973<br> <br> 2019<br> <br> Massachusetts, Lowell National Historical Park, 1978<br> Northern Mariana Islands, American Memorial Park, 1978<br> Guam, War in the Pacific National Historical Park, 1978<br> Texas, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, 1978<br> Idaho, Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, 1980<br> <br> 2020<br> American Samoa, National Park of American Samoa, 1988<br> Connecticut, Weir Farm National Historic Site, 1990<br> U.S. Virgin Islands, Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve, 1992<br> Vermont, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, 1992<br> Kansas, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, 1996<br> <br> 2021<br> Alabama, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, 1998<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"></SPAN></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><br> Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. 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