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Aug 1, 2024 · Water quality and hydrogeology near four wastewater-treatment facilities in Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, Wyoming, September 1988 through September 1997 USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4117 (Kenneth J. Hedmark and H.W. Young, 1999) Water Quality Summary for the Snake River and Alpine ...
- John D. Rockefeller Reshapes The World
- Father and Son
- Making A Home in The Hudson Valley
- Passing Private Estates to The Public
- Palisades Interstate Park: Preservation Close to Home
- Acadia: The First National Park on The East Coast
- The Rockefellers in Acadia
- Expanding The Function of Parks in The West
- Saving The Redwoods
- Interpreting Mesa Verde
John D. Rockefeller was born in 1839, twenty-five years before Lincoln granted Yosemite to California. When California acquired Yosemite in 1864, the young Rockefellerhad just entered the emerging oil business. By the time Yosemite became a national park in 1890, he was on the cusp of retirement from the Standard Oil Company, the unprecedented corp...
Together, the two Rockefellers marked out carriage trails, designed dams to create ponds and lakes, built stone bridges, and planted trees. They thoroughly enjoyed cultivating and manipulating the landscape around them. This urge to enhance the beauty of the natural environment through careful staging would remain with the younger Rockefeller all h...
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.’s younger brother, William, was his business partner in Standard Oil. William Rockefeller became the first member of the family to acquire property in New York’s Hudson River Valley when he purchased Rockwood Hall in 1886. He transformed the estate into one of the nation’s grandest houses (204 rooms) and most beautiful land...
In 1976, Kykuit was designated a National Historic Landmark. Former New York Governor and US Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, the home’s last occupant, surprised the rest of the family when they discovered upon his death in 1979 that he had bequeathed his one-third interest in the estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Thus be...
Near the Rockefeller family homes, just across the Hudson River on the outskirts of New York City, the Palisadescliffs have been celebrated by famous writers and depicted by painters. Stretching thirty miles along the west bank of the lower Hudson River, the Palisades had been quarried for decades to meet New York City’s demand for cobblestones and...
Cadillac Mountainlooms as the tallest of the eighteen mountains on Mount Desert Island, Maine. In fact, it is the highest peak on the Atlantic coastline. European mariners were drawn to the bays and harbors of the island as early as the 1500s. Tourists began to flock to the island in the 1870s and by the turn of the twentieth century, some of the m...
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his family acquired a summer residence at Seal Harborin 1910, a 65-room “cottage” that had been built for a Williams College professor. They added to it, eventually bringing its size to 100 rooms, and used it summer after summer. The family was involved in the park from its earliest stages of planning. JDR, Jr. gave 2,7...
The Rockefeller conservation story extends well beyond the Hudson Valley or even the East Coast. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.’s interest in the western United Statessparked a similar passion in his sons, and it began with family trips filled with camping and horseback riding. On a trip in 1924, JDR, Jr. took his three oldest sons, John 3rd, Nelson, and...
By 1923, one third of the great redwoods of the California coastal region had been logged, and all but 5,000 of the remaining acres were owned by logging companies. With the US Forest Service predicting total extinction within 100 years, the newly-formed Save the Redwoods League reached out to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. for help. Before he could comp...
At Mesa Verde, JDR, Jr. began to realize the impact of education and interpretation on visitors’ understanding and enjoyment of the park. Touring the site with Park Service archaeologist Jesse Nusbaum, he asked how he might help with the interpretative aspects of Mesa Verde — always preferring to call it interpretation rather than education. He soo...
- Co-founded Standard Oil Company. John D. Rockefeller, along with his business partners, including his brother William Rockefeller and several others, co-founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870.
- Implemented vertical integration in the oil industry. One of Rockefeller’s most significant contributions to the oil industry was the implementation of vertical integration.
- Established the Rockefeller Foundation for philanthropy. In 1913, John D. Rockefeller established the Rockefeller Foundation, marking a turning point in his life and legacy.
- Faced the breakup of Standard Oil due to antitrust laws. John D. Rockefeller’s dominance in the oil industry and Standard Oil’s monopolistic practices drew the attention of regulators and led to a significant legal challenge.
John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1839, on farm in Richford, New York, the second of the six children of William A. and Eliza Davison Rockefeller. The family lived in modest circumstances. When he was a boy, his family moved often, arriving in Ohio in 1853. JDR attended Central High School in Cleveland and joined the Erie Street Baptist ...
Nov 4, 2019 · After his visit, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. became that buyer. Inspired by the area’s natural beauty, Rockefeller created the Snake River Land Company in 1927, with the goal of purchasing private land in the Jackson Hole territory and then donating this land to the NPS. Throughout the early years of his assembly of land tracts, Rockefeller ...
Apr 9, 2010 · John D. Rockefeller: Early Years and Family . John Davison Rockefeller, the son of a traveling salesman, was born on July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York.Industrious even as a boy, the future oil ...
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In 1972, Congress established the JDR Memorial Parkway, "…for the purpose of commemorating the many significant contributions to the cause of conservation in the United States, which have been made by John D. Rockefeller, Junior, and to provide both a symbolic and desirable physical connection between the world's first national park, Yellowstone, and the Grand Teton National Park, which was ...
