|
|
 |
|
Grand Teton National Park |
|
MARCH 15 |
| 1781 The Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina opened the campaign that led to Yorktown and the end of the Revolution. General Nathanael Greene's American Army met the British forces of Lord Charles Cornwallis in an attempt to stop Cornwallis' drive northward through North Carolina. The Guilford Courthouse National Military Park would be established in 1917 to commemorate the largest, most hotly-contested action of the Revolutionary War's climatic Southern Campaign. |
| 1801 George Perkins Marsh is born in Woodstock, Vermont. His observations formed the basis for Man and Nature (1864), the first book that comprehensively documented man's negative impact on the environment. The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock is the only national park to focus on conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America. |
| 1943 Amidst a storm of criticism for using the 1906 Antiquities Act to circumvent Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims Jackson Hole National Monument in Wyoming after Congress had declined to authorize the expansion of Grand Teton National Park. A bill abolishing Jackson Hole National Monument passed Congress but was vetoed by Roosevelt. In 1950 Congress would finally incorporate most of the monument into Grand Teton National Park. |
 |
 |
