Photograph by George R. King 

 VIEW TAKEN ON THE B-EACHCROET PATH, MT. DESERT ISEA.ND 



Built as a memorial to an island home and leading boldly up the pine-clad ledges to Huguenot 



Head and a glorious ocean view 



FIRST NATIONAL PARK EAST OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER 



In the July issue, 1914, of the National, Geographic Magazine appeared a group of arti- 

 cles by Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University; George B. Dorr, E. H. 

 Forbush, and others, telling of the intended gift to the Nation of a National Park upon Mount 

 Desert Island, the culminating point of the beautiful coast scenery of Maine. After two years 

 of further work upon the donors' part, spent on the improvement of boundary, approach, and 

 title, this gift of unique and splendid landscape character has been accepted by President 

 Wilson, and now stands dedicated forever to free public use and to purposes of bird and 

 other wild life conservation, under the title of the Sieur de Monts National Monument. 



Its acceptance marks the beginning of a new era in our National Park development, it 

 being the first National Park — apart from battle monuments and forest reserves — to be estab- 

 lished in the vast and wealthy eastern region of our country — the region of early occupation, 

 of densest population, and greatest public need. 



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