Mount Desert Island, in Maine's Acadia National Park. The first American national park created east of the Mississippi River, it was founded in 1919 and was originally known as Lafayette National Park (in hommage to the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat and military officer who had served as an officer under George Washington during the American Revolution). The area was observed in 1604 by Samuel de Champlain, who noted its distinctive peaks topped by bare-rock plateaus.
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