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President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act into law on August 25, 1916, creating the National Park Service to oversee America's rapidly expanding system.
On August 25, 1916 President Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service as a separate agency to manage the nation’s national parks and monuments. In celebration of the upcoming National ...
Three years after the creation of the National Park Service, on this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law a bill establishing the Grand Canyon as the nation's 15th national park.
On this day in 1919, Congress approved a bill titled “An Act to Establish the Grand Canyon National Park in the State of Arizona,” which President Woodrow Wilson signed into law.
Established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, the United States National Park Service has been around for over 100 years, ...
President Ulysses S. Grant founded the country's first national park, Yellowstone, in 1872 while President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service (NPS) into existence in 1916.
The National Park Service is celebrating its big birthday this week with a nationwide celebration. One hundred years ago Thursday, President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating a federal bureau ...