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Appalachian National Scenic Trail
- The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a
2,167-mile (3,488 km) footpath along the ridge crests and across the
major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to
Springer Mountain in north Georgia. The trail traverses Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North
Carolina and Georgia.
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National Historical Park - Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
National Historical Park is the only national park to focus on
conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in
America. Opened in June 1998, Vermont's first national park preserves
and interprets the historic Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller property.
The Park is named for George Perkins Marsh, one of the nation's first
global environmental thinkers, who grew up on the property, and for
Frederick Billings, an early conservationist who established a
progressive dairy farm and professionally managed forest on the former
Marsh farm. Frederick Billings's granddaughter, Mary French Rockefeller,
and her husband, conservationist Laurance S. Rockefeller, sustained
Billings's mindful practices in forestry and farming on the property
over the latter half of the 20th century. In 1983, they established the
Billings Farm & Museum to continue the farm's working dairy and to
interpret rural Vermont life and agricultural history. |