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       Acadia National Park is a national park of the United States located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park includes...
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    population of 10,615. In 2017, an estimated 3.5 million tourists visited Acadia National Park on MDI. The island is home to numerous well-known summer colonies...
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    Units of the National Park System of the United States is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by the National Park Service. As...
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    unfit URL (link) "Acadia National Park". National Park Service. Retrieved March 23, 2010. "Acadia National Park Places To Go". National Park Service. Retrieved...
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    George Dorr (category Acadia National Park)
    preservationist. Known as the "father of Acadia National Park," he spent most of his adult life overseeing the park's formation and expansion. Charles William...
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  • Islands (British Overseas Territory), in the Pacific Ocean Acadia National Park, in Maine Acadia Parish, Louisiana, established 1886 A proposed partition...
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    Acadia (French: Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé...
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    Acadia (AD-42) was a Yellowstone-class destroyer tender in the service of the United States Navy, named after Acadia National Park. She was inactive and...
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  • The Acadia Night Sky Festival is an annual celebration of the starlit skies above Acadia National Park on Maine's Mount Desert Island and the Schoodic...
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    Acadia National Park is the only national park in New England. Areas under the protection and management of the National Park Service include: Acadia...
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    Schoodic Peninsula (category National Register of Historic Places in Acadia National Park)
    Schoodic Peninsula contains 2,266 acres (9 km2), or approximately 5% of Acadia National Park. It includes the towns of Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor. The peninsula...
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  • Friends of Acadia is a nonprofit membership organization that helps preserve and protect Acadia National Park and its surrounding communities. Based in...
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    The town is located just outside the Schoodic Peninsula portion of Acadia National Park and is due east of the town of Bar Harbor and Ellsworth. Winter Harbor...
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    John D. Rockefeller Jr. (category Acadia National Park)
    National Parks, including Grand Teton (hiding his involvement and intentions behind the Snake River Land Company), Mesa Verde National Park, Acadia,...
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    Cadillac Mountain (category Acadia National Park)
    Cadillac Mountain is located on Mount Desert Island, within Acadia National Park, in the U.S. state of Maine. With an elevation of 1,530 feet (470 meters)...
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    Isle au Haut, Maine (category Acadia National Park)
    Bay. The population was 92 at the 2020 census. Home to portions of Acadia National Park, Isle au Haut is accessible by ferry from Stonington. The 6 mile...
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    2021), each commemorating a national natural or historic site such as national parks, national historic sites, or national forests – one from each state...
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    Acadia is a North American cultural region in the Maritime provinces of Canada where approximately 300,000 French-speaking Acadians live. The region lacks...
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  • recorded in Acadia National Park, which is in the U.S. state of Maine. The park's avifauna comprise 362 species according to the National Park Service (NPS)...
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    on the U.S. Atlantic seaboard. The county is home to Acadia National Park, the only national park in New England, which is centered on Mount Desert Island...
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    Atlantic Ocean southeast of Mount Desert Island, which is the site of Acadia National Park. As of 2013, the year-round population was approximately sixty-five...
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    founding coincided with that of the national park, which was established as Lafayette National Park in 1919 and became Acadia in 1929. The Abbe was conceived...
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    3 March 2016. Hartford, Greg A. "Bear Island Lighthouse in Acadia National Park". Acadia Magic. Retrieved 10 November 2021. "The Islands of Cranberry...
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    The National Park System of the United States is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by the National Park Service. The collection...
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    Bar Harbor, Maine (category Acadia National Park)
    tourist destination. Bar Harbor is also home to the largest parts of Acadia National Park, including Cadillac Mountain, the highest point within 25 miles (40 km)...
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    Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin (category Military history of Acadia)
    military officer serving in Acadia and an Abenaki chief. He is the father of two prominent sons who were also military leaders in Acadia: Bernard-Anselme and...
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    Park Loop Road is a scenic road through part of Acadia National Park in Maine, United States. 27 miles (43 km) long, it traverses the eastern side of Mount...
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    Salinas Tetas de Cerro Gordo in San German Bubble Mountains, in Acadia National Park, Maine. Isanaklesh Peaks, in Maricopa County, Arizona, formerly known...
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    Acadia National Park, largely on Mount Desert Island, off the coast of the U.S. state of Maine, was created in part by land and other donations by John...
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    such place names as Norumbega Mountain (formerly Brown Mountain) in Acadia National Park. "Did Leif Erikson once live in Cambridge, Massachusetts?". The Straight...
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