Shenandoah National Park a result of differential erosion during the Cenozoic, although some post-Paleozoic tectonic activity occurred in the region. Legislation to create a national park in the Appalachian mountains was first introduced by new Virginia congressman Henry D. Flood in 1901, but despite the support of President Theodore Roosevelt, failed to pass. The first national park was Yellowstone, in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It was signed into law in 1872. Yosemite National Park was created in 1890. When Congress created the National Park Service (NPS) in 1916, additional parks had maintained the western pattern (Crater Lake in 1902, Wind Cave in 1903,
Wyoming, Iowa County, Wisconsin Wyoming, Iowa County, Wisconsin Wyoming is a town in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 364 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Wyoming is located in the town. Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin is located in the town, as is his Wyoming Valley School. Unity Chapel, designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee and worked on by Wright, is also located in Wyoming. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 40.8 square miles (105.8 km²), of which, 39.8 square miles (103.0 km²) of it is land and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km²)