America the Beautiful Quarters - Grand Canyon National Park
Posted by Tomi in 2010, America the Beautiful Quarters, United States on December 27, 2010
The Grand Canyon National Park quarter is the fourth of 2010 and the fourth overall in the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program.
Grand Canyon National Park is is one of the United States' oldest national parks and is located in Arizona. The Grand Canyon overwhelms the senses through its immense size of the 277 river miles long, up to 18 miles wide and a mile deep.
The Grand Canyon was first established as a national site on February 20, 1893. It became a national park in 1919. So famous is this landmark to modern Americans that it seems surprising that it took more than thirty years for it to become a national park. President Theodore Roosevelt visited the rim in 1903 and exclaimed: "The Grand Canyon fills me with awe. It is beyond comparison--beyond description; absolutely unparalleled throughout the wide world.... Let this great wonder of nature remain as it now is. Do nothing to mar its grandeur, sublimity and loveliness. You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is to keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see."
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Sources: United States Mint and Wikipedia.
