Šiandien į apyvartą išleidžiamas pirmas JAV Nacionalinių parkų serijos ketvirtis. Moneta pristatoma Hot Springs Nacionaliniame Parke antradienį, Balandžio 20-ąją 10:00 (CT).
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http://www.americathebeautifulquarters.gov/Coin OverviewThe Hot Springs National Park quarter is the first of 2010 and the first overall in the America the Beautiful QuartersTM Program. The coin's reverse (tails side) image depicts the façade of the Hot Springs National Park headquarters building with a fountain in the foreground. The headquarters was built in the Spanish colonial revival style and completed in 1936. The National Park Service emblem is featured to the right of the door. Inscriptions are HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, 2010 and E PLURIBUS UNUM. Design candidates were developed in consultation with representatives of Hot Springs National Park.
Park OverviewHot Springs was first established as a national site on April 20, 1832, to conserve the water from the 47 springs that emerge from Hot Springs Mountain and to ensure that water was made available for drinking and therapy. It is one of the smallest national parks in the country, but one of the most accessible and unique.
Nicknamed “The American Spa,” people have used the hot spring water in therapeutic baths for more than two hundred years to treat rheumatism and other ailments. The park includes Bathhouse Row, itself a National Historic Landmark District. This grand collection of bathhouses is a beautiful example of late 19th century Gilded Age architecture. One of these buildings, the Fordyce Bathhouse, now serves as the park's visitors center.
Beyond the springs, the park also contains 26 miles of hiking trails, picnic areas and campsites in the surrounding Ouachita Mountain Range.
Parašytas: Pen Vas 26, 2010 2:17 am
