“100 Years of the National Park Service” exhibit Date: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 Time: All Day Location: Pearce Foyer, 2nd floor Gorgas Library The beginning of the National Park Service as we know it today didn’t spring into being with the establishment of the first national park by the U. S. Congress on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone National Park, the first park in the United States and widely held to be the first national park in the world, was established […]