USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -President Theodore Roosevelt first visited the Grand Canyon in 1903 and was deeply moved by the unique landscape. In 1906, Roosevelt signed a bill that proclaimed the area the Grand Canyon Game Reserve, and two years later, he made it a national monument.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson made Grand Canyon a national park to protect the land and the resources within it, managed by the National Park Service. The United Nations declared the park a World Heritage Site in 1979. This name has helped the canyon become famous worldwide.

Detailed explanation-3: -Let this great wonder of nature remain as it now is. Do nothing to mar its grandeur, sublimity and loveliness.” Theodore Roosevelt established the Grand Canyon Game Preserve by proclamation in 1906, and declared Grand Canyon National Monument in 1908.

Detailed explanation-4: -NPS Archeology Program: For the Public. The first national monument to be established under provisions of the Antiquities Act was proclaimed by President Theodore Roosevelt on September 24, 1906. It was created to protect Devils Tower, well-known geological formation in Crook County, Wyoming.

Detailed explanation-5: -Previously, it had been called the “Big Canyon.” And the Paiute Indians dubbed the canyon “The Mountain Lying Down.” Flight safety catalyst: A 1956 mid-air collision over the Grand Canyon between two commercial flights spurred the creation of the Federal Aviation Administration.