Assateague Island National Seashore - Home of the Wild Horses
If you want once-in-a-lifetime adventures, enjoy learning about U.S. history, and seeing amazing sights, the National Parks will provide experiences you'll always remember.
And if you're one of the more than 125,000 people who collect National Park cancellation stamps, like I do, you'll find the Assateague Island National Seashore on the Maryland and Virginia border a joy to discover while zigzagging across the United States on your giant scavenger hunt. More about the stamps in a minute.
No other country has anything that even comes close to the U.S. National Park System. It ranks as one of America's most magnificent achievements. While other countries have preserved lands, the U.S. National Park System is a core part of America's identity. The National Parks logged 275 million visitors in 2005.
Other fun facts: The wild horses are descendants of 17th century domesticated horses that grazed on the island.
The original 45-foot tall Assateague Lighthouse was constructed in 1833 and its first light was a constellation of 11 small oil lamps each with its own reflector. The current 142-foot Assateague Lighthouse became operational in 1867.
Assateague Island is a barrier island.
Assateague Island's most famous shipwreck was the Despatch, President Benjamin Harrison's official yacht on October 10, 1891.
Established in 1965, the park had 1,996,502 visitors in 2005.
Now, back to those cancellation stamps.
They resemble the post office's cancellation stamp you see on the mail in your mailbox. Not all parks have cancellation stamps and some parks have several unique cancellation stamps scattered across a variety of park locations, such as visitor centers, entrance gates, and ranger huts.
In most cases, you can apply the stamp yourself, although in some parks the rangers will apply the stamp for you.
You can get in on the fun, too, by visiting the more than 490 national parks, seashores, lakeshores, recreation areas, historic sites, battlefields, memorials, monuments, trails, preserves, reserves, scenic rivers, parkways and heritage areas across the United States.
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Karen Midkiff's Got the Stamp?(tm) book series provides quick and easy instructions for collecting the most cancellation stamps in the shortest amount of time. The series includes nine National Park U.S. regional guides (Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, National Capital, North Atlantic, Pacific Northwest & Alaska, Southeast, Southwest, Rocky Mountain, and Western) and select individual state guides.
The National Park Mid-Atlantic, National Capital, North Atlantic and Florida guides are available at http://www.gotthestamp.com. Contact Karen at http://www.gotthestamp.com
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