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Change is Coming – New Quarters
Hot Springs National Park will be the first site featured in a line of “America the Beautiful” quarters starting next year that will feature a national park from each state and U.S. territory (the front of the coins will still feature George Washington).
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The U.S. Mint will issue five quarters each year – Hot Springs will be first, since it was the first park to receive a federal designation. The quarters will be issued in the order that the parks and sites were established as national sites. According to a press release Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner approved the list of sites recommended by the United States Mint on August 25, 2009, after consultation with the governor or chief executive of each host jurisdiction and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.
After Hot Springs, the Mint next year will issue coins commemorating:
- Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming,
- Yosemite National Park in California,
- Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and
- Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon.
More information is online at http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/NSQuartersProgram/index.cfm
Here are the states, with their images and the years in which the sites were established as federal sites.
align="center"> 2010
Arkansas, Hot Springs National Park, 1832
Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, 1872
California, Yosemite National Park, 1890
Arizona, Grand Canyon National Park, 1893
Oregon, Mt. Hood National Forest, 1893
align="center"> 2011
Pennsylvania, Gettysburg National Military Park, 1895
Montana, Glacier National Park, 1897
Washington, Olympic National Park, 1897
Mississippi, Vicksburg National Military Park, 1899
Oklahoma, Chickasaw National Recreation Area, 1902
align="center"> 2012
Puerto Rico, El Yunque National Forest, 1903
New Mexico, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, 1907
Maine, Acadia National Park, 1916
Hawaii, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, 1916
Alaska, Denali National Park, 1917
align="center"> 2013
New Hampshire, White Mountain National Forest, 1918
Ohio, Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, 1919
Nevada, Great Basin National Park, 1922
Maryland, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, 1925
South Dakota, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 1925
align="center"> 2014
Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1926
Virginia, Shenandoah National Park, 1926
Utah, Arches National Park, 1929
Colorado, Great Sand Dunes National Park, 1932
Florida, Everglades National Park, 1934
align="center"> 2015
Nebraska, Homestead National Monument of America, 1936
Louisiana, Kisatchie National Forest, 1936
North Carolina, Blue Ridge Parkway, 1936
Delaware, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, 1937
New York, Saratoga National Historical Park, 1938
align="center"> 2016
Illinois, Shawnee National Forest, 1939
Kentucky, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, 1940
West Virginia, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, 1944
North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, 1946
align="center"> 2017
Iowa, Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1949
District of Columbia, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, 1962
Missouri, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, 1964
New Jersey, Ellis Island National Monument (Statue of Liberty), 1965
Indiana, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, 1966
align="center"> 2018
Michigan, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, 1966
Wisconsin, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, 1970
Minnesota, Voyageurs National Park, 1971
Georgia, Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1972
align="center"> 2019
Massachusetts, Lowell National Historical Park, 1978
Northern Mariana Islands, American Memorial Park, 1978
Guam, War in the Pacific National Historical Park, 1978
Texas, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, 1978
align="center"> 2020
American Samoa, National Park of American Samoa, 1988
Connecticut, Weir Farm National Historic Site, 1990
U.S. Virgin Islands, Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve, 1992
Vermont, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, 1992 Kansas, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, 1996
align="center"> 2021
Alabama, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, 1998