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Lafayette National Park A Maine Coast Icon
John Dickinson Sherman profiles Lafayette National Park on Mount Desert Island Maine as a unique eastern scenic park. The article traces creation from Sieur de Monts monument to Lafayette, notes land gifts and Dorr Eliot efforts, describes Bar Harbor and Somes Sound, lists mountains and lakes, and highlights diverse forest species and future development including Cadillac Mountain road.
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Mississippi
Hot Springs National Park
Arkansas
Congress
Hot Springs Reservation
Lafayette
George B. Dorr
Mount Desert Island
Bar Harbor
United States
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations
Dorr
Washington
Lane
Interior Department
Muir Woods
California
William Kent
Sieur de Monts National Monument
Wilson
National Park
Dignity
Worth
Lafayette National Park
Great Lakes
Everglades
Okeftinokee
Eliot
Secretary of the Interior
National Park Service
Archer M. Huntington
New Mexico
Estes Park
Rocky Mountain National Park
Stephen T. Mather
Kern Canyon
Roosevelt-Sequoia National Park
Somes Sound
Newfoundland
Frenchman's Bay
Seal Harbor
Atlantic
Rockies
Sierras
Scenic West
Maine
Champlain
Cadillac
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
Acadia
Detroit
Louisiana
Louis XIV
Henry IV
Penobscot
Norumbega
St. Sauveur
Robert Mansell
New England
Bernard
Francis Bernard
Province of
Massachusett’s Bay
America
Massachusetts
France
Jordan Pond
Bubble Pond
Eagle
Echo Lakes
Adirondacks
Parkman
Acadian
Robert Sterling Yard
National Parks Association