On this date in Maine history: July 8

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 8, 2020

President Woodrow Wilson designates a large tract of land on Mount Desert Island as Sieur de Monts National Monument, whose name honors a French explorer and colonizer. Composed of donated tracts of land, it is the early form of what later will become Acadia National Park. The site becomes Lafayette National Park in 1919, renamed Acadia in 1929.