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OUR NATIONAL MONUMENTS 35 warned not to push or lean on the outside walls, as accident and damage might result. MUIR WOODS NATIONAL MONUMENT The Muir Woods, Calif., named in honor of the late John Muir, explorer, naturalist, and writer, was established as a national monument by presidential proclamation of January 9, 1908. The monument was created to preserve a remarkable grove of redwood trees on a tract of land containing 295 acres presented to the Government for this purpose by Hon. William Kent and his wife, Elizabeth Thacher Kent, of Kentfield, Calif. A further gift of 77.90 acres from Mr. and Mrs. Kent, together with 50.24 acres donated by the Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad was added to the monument by proclamation of September 22, 1921. Thus one of the "most friendly, easily approachable woods," centuries old, has been permanently preserved for the "benefit and enjoyment of the people."' Yet only the accident of inaccessibility in the early days saved these trees from being cut into railroad ties, grape stakes, and shingles. Mr. Lovell White, president of the Tamalpais Land & Water Co., which owned large areas on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, was a true lover of the woods and sought a purchaser who could save the trees. Such a man he found in William Kent, to whom the title of the tract containing the redwoods passed in 1905. But even Mr. Kent's personal wishes would not have availed to save them from ultimate destruction. The best trees were located in a canyon which private interests sought for a reservoir site, and, unable to purchase, they threatened to exercise the right of eminent domain to condemn the property for public use as a domestic water supply. This was in 1907 and, even though the project was an uneconomic one, the danger was great. Gifford Pinchot, then head of the Forest Service under President Roosevelt, suggested that if given to the Government and proclaimed a national monument the trees would be saved. So on the 26th day of December, 1907, " William Kent and Elizabeth Thacher Kent, his wife," joined in conveying the area to the United States and shortly thereafter President Roosevelt signed the proclamation creating the Muir Woods National Monument. The correspondence that passed between William Kent and President Roosevelt, following the latter's suggestion that this imperishable wooded gift be named in honor of its donor, is characteristic of the writers and worthy of reflective contemplation. It is therefore quoted below: The White House, Washington. My Dear Mr. Kent: I thank you most heartily for this singularly generous and public-spirited action on your part. All Americans who prize the natural
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This 80-page booklet, “Glimpses of our National Monuments” was published in 1926 by the National Park Service. The booklet begins by outlining the distinction between America’s national parks and its national monuments. Subsequent pages show and describe the monuments. Page 72 lists all the national parks to date, all in the western U.S. One argument for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is that there were no national parks in the eastern U.S. This situation was not changed until 1934 when the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established.
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Cataloochee tract 221: Will H. Palmer
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Cataloochee tract 233: W. B. Bennett
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Sion Thomas Early, millwright
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Hikers on Hell Ridge
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Appalachian National Park Association Newspaper Clippings, 1899-1902
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Ramsey Prong Trail
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Minutes of Meetings of the Appalachian National Park Association
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Cataloochee tract 208: James Caldwell
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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in relation to the forests, rivers, and mountains of the southern Appalachian region
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Editorial requests to support an Appalachian National Park
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Appalachian National Park Association Newspaper Clippings, 1902-1907, 1925, 1928
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Correspondence between Fred L. Weede and Zebulon Weaver, 1933
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Correspondence: James E. Walker to Zebulon Weaver, January 17, 1925
