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Mount Desert Island in Sowne,

and Southeastern Maine is home to Bar Harbor, Somme Sound, and Acadia National Park.

It's 108 square miles, and Somme Sound is a six mile long fjord that divides the island into eastern and western segments

The French Explorer Samuel Des Champlain named the island for its Bear Rock Mountain Summits, for which there are 18.

A bridge connects the mainland to the island's roads, bridal paths, and footpaths.

Acadia National Park was established on the island in 1919 and was the first national park in the eastern United States at the time.

The park protects coasts, intertidal and subtitle zones, lakes and ponds, mountains, wetlands, and night skies. and

title zones, lakes and ponds, and night skies.

While there is diversity of life in this park,

there are also human stories of imagination and innovation.

I'm Jason Epperson and this week on America's National Parks,

the carriage roads of Acadia. Winding through a cadious forests and mountains are 45 miles of historic roadways that are only for pedestrians, bicyclists, horseback riders, and carriages. These roads were carefully designed

to follow the contours of the landscape and reach scenic vistas, though enormously popular

for recreation today.

Until recently, it was not well known who had the most prominent role in the development of these roads.

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