In 1901, conservationists began buying land to protect Mount Desert Island; their first 6,000 acres helped create Acadia National Park
More than a century before Acadia National Park officially existed, a small group of conservationists began quietly buying land on Mount Desert Island to protect its forests, mountains and coastline from unchecked development. Their grassroots effort, launched in 1901 through the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, eventually secured thousands…
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