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The parklands follow the course of Rock Creek across the D.C.- Maryland border to connect with Rock Creek Stream Valley Park and Rock Creek Regional Park in Montgomery County. Including the other green areas the park administers (Glover Archbold Park, Montrose Park, Dumbarton Oaks Park, Meridian Hill Park, Battery Kemble Park, Palisades Park, Whitehaven Park, etc.), it encompasses more than 2000 acres (3В mi 2, 8В km 2). The main section of the park comprises 1754 acres (2.74В mi 2, 7.10В km 2), along the Rock Creek Valley. The park is patrolled by the United States Park Police.

The parkway is a major traffic thoroughfare, especially along the portion south of the zoo. In 1913, Congress authorized creation of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway and extended the park along a narrow corridor from the zoo to the mouth of Rock Creek at the Potomac River. Rock Creek Park is the oldest natural urban park in the National Park System. The Act also called for regulations to 'provide for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, animals, or curiosities within said park, and their retention in their natural condition, as nearly as possible'.

The Rock Creek Park Act authorized the purchase of no more than 2,000 acres (810В ha) of land, extending north from Klingle Ford Bridge in the District of Columbia (approximately the northern limit of the National Zoo), to be 'perpetually dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States'. In 1933, Rock Creek Park became part of the newly formed National Capital Parks unit of the National Park Service. Sequoia was created at the same time, and Yosemite shortly thereafter. It was only the third national park established by the U.S., following Yellowstone in 1872 and Mackinac National Park in 1875. Glover and other civic leaders and in the wake of the creation of the National Zoo the preceding year. Rock Creek Park was established by an act of Congress signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison on September 27, 1890, following active advocacy by Charles C.

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In addition to the park proper, the Rock Creek administrative unit of the National Park Service administers various other federally owned properties in the District of Columbia located to the north and west of the National Mall, including Meridian Hill Park on 16th Street, N.W., the Old Stone House in Georgetown, and certain of the Fort Circle Parks, a series of batteries and forts encircling the District of Columbia for its defense during the U.S. The park was created by an Act of Congress in 1890 and today is administered by the National Park Service. Rock Creek Park is a large urban park that bisects the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Early Republic, and NPS Rustic

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