History
Yellowstone National Park, the world's first national park, was established on March 1, 1872. In the park's early years, a civilian staff (with limited financial and human resources) under the control of the U.S. Department of the Interior was in charge of running and protecting the park. However, the Department of the Interior was unable to devote sufficient resources to protect the park's natural features and wildlife. In 1886 control over the park was handed over the the War Department and the United States Army.
On August 17, 1886 Captain Moses Harris, Company M, 1st U.S. Cavalry established Camp Sheridan, named after General Philip Sheridan at Mammoth Hot Springs. On May 11, 1891 Camp Sheridan was renamed Fort Yellowstone and the construction of permanent facilities begun. The army continued to use Fort Yellowstone until they turned over control of the park (and the fort) to the newly-formed National Park Service in 1918. The National Park Service assumed the use of the Fort Yellowstone facilities, as Yellowstone National Park's headquarters, which continues to this day.
Fort Yellowstone was designated a National Historic Landmark on July 31, 2003.
Read more about this topic: Fort Yellowstone
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)