U.S. Heritage

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The United States of America has twenty-six World Heritage sites. These stamps commemorate just six of them. The first two stamps were sold in sheets of individual stamps. Whereas the other six were sold in a booklet with images and text describing the sites.

Smoky Mountains

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a pleasant set of mountains, located in Tennessee and North Carolina. Designated a national park in the 1940 during the adminstration of President Franklin Roosevelt, it’s quite large with over a half-million acres. It’s the most biodiverse park in the U.S. with many species of mammals, birds and fish. These include the bears, deer and elk, foxes and wolves, beavers, raccoons, and opossums. I’ve passed through the Smoky Mountains several times when traveling between New Orleans and the Northeast part of the U.S.

Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park is located primarily in northwest Wyoming. It’s huge, much bigger than the Smokeys, without about two-million two-hundred thousand acres, it’s the second largest national park in the U.S. It became a park during the administration of President Ulysses Grant. This park also contains many species of animals, including bison – as depicted on the stamps – bears, elk, wolves, and whooping cranes. It’s perhaps most famous for an active geyser known as Old Faithful.

Yosemite

Yosemite National Park is located in California. It’s about seven-hundred sixty thousand acres. It became a protected area under Abraham Lincoln and later the first national park by the efforts of the activist, John Muir in 1890. The park contains many species of animals and plants, including Giant Sequoia trees. It’s made famous in particular by the photographs of Ansel Adams. The stamp for this site shows a shot of Yosemite Valley.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is a park located on the island of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, it contains two active volcanoes. Established in 1916, it’s a little more than three-hundred fifty thousand acres.

Olympic Park

Olympic National Park is located on the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington. The park was started by President Theodor Roosevelt, but became a national park under Franklin Roosevelt. The park is about nine-hundred twenty thousand acres and includes about sixty miles of coast, as you can see in the stamp for this site. The park also includes glaciers and a rainforest.

Everglades

The Everglades National Park is located in southern end of Florida, it’s about one-million five-hundred thousand acres of wetlands and forests. The park contains a variety of wildlife, including aligators, herons and egrets, bears and cougars, and many species of fish, and manatees. The fauna include cypress and mangrove trees, which have been critical to preventing erosion and are integral to the ecosystem.

Note

The U.S. has so much to see and some of these sites are beautiful. However, these photos make the sites look rather dull. They would have done better with artists’ paintings and photos by famous photographers like Ansel Adams. As an American, I’m a disappointed by this representation.

Contains 8 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

World Heritage Site

1.1	✓	338	Olympic National Park	0.55 (oct 2003) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	339	Everglades National Park	0.75 (oct 2003) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	340c	Olympic National Park	0.15 (oct 2003) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	340e	Everglades National Park	0.20 (oct 2003) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	340a	Yosemite National Park	0.15 (oct 2003) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	340d	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	0.20 (oct 2003) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	340b	Great Smoky Mountains National Park	0.15 (oct 2003) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	340f	Yellowstone National Park	0.20 (oct 2003) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

• Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).

• Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.

• Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.

• To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.

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