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Example of a National Park Passport Stamp for the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Passport to Your National Parks is a program through which ink stamps can be acquired at no cost at park visitor centers and ranger stations at nearly all of the 433 units of the United States National Park System and most of the National Park Service's affiliated areas.
Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965 and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990. Below is a list of Ellis Island immigrants who attained notability in the United States.
A special official national park passport stamp is produced for each convention, and only available during the convention. [7] 2003: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area; 2004: Rocky Mountain National Park, the NPTC was formally chartered at this convention; 2005: Mammoth Cave National Park; 2006: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there. [6]
The total area protected by national parks is approximately 52.4 million acres (212,000 km 2), for an average of 833 thousand acres (3,370 km 2) but a median of only 220 thousand acres (890 km 2). [8] The national parks set a visitation record in 2021, with more than 92 million visitors. [9]
Anna "Annie" Moore (April 24, 1874 – December 6, 1924) was an Irish émigré who was the first immigrant to the United States to pass through federal immigrant inspection at the Ellis Island station in New York Harbor. Bronze statues of Moore, created by Irish sculptor Jeanne Rynhart, are located at Cobh in Ireland and Ellis Island. [3]
The National Institute for Architectural Education ran a student competition on what to put on Ellis Island. Among the winners were a cathedral and a nuclear power plant.
Cumberland Island National Seashore: Georgia: 36,346.83 acres (147.0904 km 2) Fire Island National Seashore: New York: 19,580.65 acres (79.2401 km 2) Gulf Islands National Seashore: Florida, Mississippi: 138,306.64 acres (559.7071 km 2) Padre Island National Seashore: Texas: 130,434.27 acres (527.8488 km 2) Point Reyes National Seashore: California