Acadia National Park is 109 nears old today. The photos in this article were taken by me in Acadia National Park, October 2017.

The following (in italics) was posted today by Acadia National Park:

On July 8, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed 5,000 acres of land donated to the United States by the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations as Sieur de Monts National Monument. The national monument encompassed the summit of Cadillac Mountain (named Wapuwoc by the Wabanaki People) and formed the beginning of Lafayette National Park, which was established by law in 1919 and renamed Acadia National Park in 1929. This was the first national park in the eastern United States.

Coincidently, the National Park Service was established on August 25, 1916, just seven weeks after Sieur de Monts National Monument. Along with Acadia National Park, the National Park Service manages 433 areas covering more than 85 million acres to “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”

Acadia National Park continues to be a place of enduring and immeasurable importance to the Wabanaki, People of the Dawnland. Resistant and resilient, Wabanaki people are still here. We gratefully acknowledge the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Mi’kmaq Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe at Motahkokmikuk, Passamaquoddy Tribe at Sipayik, and the Penobscot Indian Nation on whose ancestral homelands we now gather.