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Alaska
Alaska
38th National Monument
38th National Monument
43 Acres
43 Acres
Established by Presidential Proclamation: October 10, 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson
Abolished as a National Monument: July 26, 1955 by the 84th Congress
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kasaan_National_Monument
The monument was transferred to the National Park Service by President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 6166 on June 10, 1933. It was abolished and the site was taken over by the U. S. Forest Service's (USFS) Tongass National Forest by an act of Congress in 1955.
A Victim of Nature and Bureaucracy: The Short, Sad History of Old Kasaan National Monument (PDF)
A Victim of Nature and Bureaucracy: The Short, Sad History of Old Kasaan National Monument (PDF)
National Park Service
... were so impressed by the village’s community houses, totem poles, and grave houses that they decided that the site needed to be preserved. The touring group, about half of whom hailed from California, recognized an interest in preserving “the traditions, architecture, customs, habits and records” of Alaska’s “Native Clans.” But they were dismayed to see that the “ancient village” was “rapidly falling into decay,” so they cobbled together a petition asking that “steps be taken to form a National Monument or Park which shall include Old Kasaan, Alaska, so that in the years to come … not only the American people but tourists and genealogical students from all over the world may have an opportunity to visit and study the relics, records and history of the life of a people who originally inhabited and dominated Alaska.”
https://www.nps.gov/sitk/learn/historyculture/upload/OldKasan.pdf
H.R. 4046 (84th): An Act to abolish the Old Kasaan National Monument, Alaska, and for other purposes
H.R. 4046 (84th): An Act to abolish the Old Kasaan National Monument, Alaska, and for other purposes
U. S. House of Representatives
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Old Kasaan National Monument, in Alaska, is hereby abolished, and the lands thereof shall hereafter be administered as a part of the Tongass National Forest. Approved July 26, 1955.
Pruning the Parks: Moving the Totems Changed Everything for Old Kasaan National Monument (1916-1955)
Pruning the Parks: Moving the Totems Changed Everything for Old Kasaan National Monument (1916-1955)
National Parks Traveler
About 30 miles west of Ketchikan in southeastern Alaska is the site of a former national monument so obscure that even a lot of Park Service history buffs know little or nothing about it. Old Kasaan National Monument was proclaimed in 1916 to preserve a 38-acre site containing the ruins and remaining totems of an abandoned Haida Indian village. The Park Service moved the village’s totems to a different site, and Congress abolished the park in 1955.
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