Cars and autmun leaves in Acadia National Park Maine. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Cars and autmun leaves in Acadia National Park Maine. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. It is the largest island off Maine and the second largest off the east coast after Long Island, New York. The French explorer Samuel de Champlain named the island and called it ‘desert’ because no trees grew on the island mountain tops. There are 4 towns on the island - the main one being Bar Harbor. Massachusetts gained the island (and the rest of Maine) from the settlement of the Seven Years War between England and France in 1763. In 1901 George B. Dorr set up a public land conservation trust to buy land so that it could not be developed. By 1913 his trust had acquired 6,000 acres and in 1916 negotiations began with the US Government as President Woodrow Wilson was sympathetic to the cause of national parks. In 1919 President Wilson created the first national park east of the Mississippi River here on Mt Desert Island. George Dorr became the first park superintendent. Once established John D. Rockefeller donated most of the present day land of Acadia National Park as he wanted to keep the area “free from automobiles” although his own personal wealth was based on oil and petrol! He could not fight the tide of cars arriving on the island and he paid for the construction of 80 kms of roadways to give scenic views and vistas. Many have fine stone bridges. Ironically one of the major peaks on the island is Mt Cadillac (1,532’ or 467 metres.) Much of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park is composed of granite rock, which has been rounded and eroded by the last Ice Age. There are glacial erratics (rocks dropped by retreating glaciers), glacial lakes and deposits of moraine (eroded rubble carried in and on glaciers) across the island. Much of the pine forest on the island was destroyed by fire in 1947 and more deciduous trees (aspen, birch, alder and maple) have re-forested the island since then. Beavers have reproduced well on the island since being re-introduced by George Dorr in the 1920s. That 1947 fire also destroyed many of the mansions of the Robber Barons. Bar Harbor. About 5,000 people live in Bar Harbor but its population grows in the summer months as it is primarily a summer retreat. It was first settled by whites in 1796 but did not become well known until the Hudson River School of artists chose it as a favourite site in the 1840s. Their paintings inspired hotel builders and by the 1870s Bar Harbor was a favourite coastal retreat for the very wealthy from New York. Once the railway reached here in 1880 it began to rival Newport Rhode Island. This was the period known as the Gilded Age and the Robber Barons were quick to build summer mansions in Bar Harbor. They tried to outdo each other with grand houses and landscaped gardens. The Vanderbilts, Fords, Carnegies, Astors, Rockefellers and Morgans had summer houses here in the late 19th century. Nelson Rockefeller, who went into politics and was Vice President to Gerald Ford, was born here. Rockefellers still own a summer house in Bar Harbor as do other notables such as actress Susan Sarandon and TV presenter Martha Stewart. By the early 20th century Bar Harbor was declining in popularity and Newport Rhode Island became the favoured spot of the super wealthy. Some of the houses from Millionaires Row in Bar Harbor are now hotels. By the 1880s Bar Harbor had 30 hotels, and for the time it had the largest hotel in America. The splendid autumn leaves right down to the waterfront make Bar Harbor an especially pretty place. Whilst in Bar Harbor we hope to visit the George Dorr Natural History Museum on the campus of the College of the Atlantic at 105 Eden Street. This tertiary college was only established in 1969 and is a small private college which mainly teaches ecology and environmental science. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-10-11 06:39:34 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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