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Congress declares that the national park system, which began with establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, has since grown to include superlative natural, historic, and recreation areas in every major region of the United States, its territories and island possessions; that these areas, though distinct in character, are united ...
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the US Department of the Interior.The service manages all national parks; most national monuments; and other natural, historical, and recreational properties, with various title designations.
The park is a historic district administered under a partnership between the National Park Service, the City of New Bedford and private building owners to preserve the historic landscapes, structures, and collections and promote research and educational programming associated with the history of whaling.
George B. Hartzog Jr., director of the National Park Service from January 8, 1964, until December 31, 1972. [1]In April 1966, six months before the National Register of Historic Places was created, the National Park Service's history research programs had been centralized into the office of Robert M. Utley, NPS chief historian, in Washington, D.C., [2] as part of an overall plan dubbed ...
The National Register of Historic Places in the United States is a register including buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects. The Register automatically includes all National Historic Landmarks as well as all historic areas administered by the U.S. National Park Service. Since its introduction in 1966, more than 97,000 separate ...
On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation that created the National Park Service. The National Park Service Organic Act, [1] or the Organic Act as referred to within the National Park Service, is a United States federal law that established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the United States Department of the Interior.
Mission 66 was a United States National Park Service ten-year program that was intended to dramatically expand Park Service visitor services by 1966, in time for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Park Service. When the National Park Service was created in 1916, long-distance travel in North America was typically accomplished by ...
Logo of the National Park Service. The National Park System of the United States is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by the National Park Service. The collection includes all national parks and most national monuments, as well as several other types of protected areas of the United States.