Rock Creek Park is a large urban park that bisects the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D. C; the park was created by an Act of Congress in 1890 and today is administered by the National Park Service. 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, certain of the Fort Circle Parks, a series of batteries and forts encircling the District of Columbia for its defense during the U. S. Civil War. 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. Glover and other civic leaders and in the wake of the creation of the National Zoo the preceding year, it was only the third national park established by the U. S. following Yellowstone in 1872 and Mackinac National Park in 1875.
Sequoia was created at the same time, Yosemite shortly thereafter. In 1933, Rock Creek Park became part of the newly formed National Capital Parks unit of the National Park Service; the Rock Creek Park Act authorized the purchase of no more than 2,000 acres of land, extending north from Klingle Ford Bridge in the District of Columbia, 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". The Act called for regulations to "provide for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, animals, or curiosities within said park, their retention in their natural condition, as nearly as possible". Rock Creek Park is the oldest natural urban park in the National Park System. Park construction began in 1897. 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; the parkway is a major traffic thoroughfare along the portion south of the zoo.
The park is patrolled by the United States Park Police. The main section of the park comprises 1754 acres, along the Rock Creek Valley. Including the other green areas the park administers, it encompasses more than 2000 acres; 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. The Maryland parks are operated by the Maryland-National Capital Planning Commission; the Rock Creek Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 23, 1991. Recreation facilities include a golf course. Rock Creek Park maintains cultural exhibits, including the Peirce Mill. Rock Creek is a popular venue for jogging and inline skating on the long, winding Beach Drive, portions of which are closed to vehicles on weekends. A number of the city's outstanding bridges, such as the Lauzun's Legion, Dumbarton and the Duke Ellington bridges, span the creek and ravine. Among the park's few monuments is a pink granite bench on Beach Drive south of the Peirce Mill, dedicated on November 7, 1936 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in memory of former French ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand.
In 2014, it was named "best obscure memorial" by Washington City Paper. Rock Creek Park Horse Center, founded in 1972, is located in the middle of the park near the Nature Center; the barn, run by Guest Services Inc, has 57 stalls, two outdoor rings, one indoor ring, three bluestone turnout paddocks. The stable provides trail rides, pony rides, lessons for the public, along with boarding for private horses; the stable teaches English riding, with an emphasis on lower-level jumping and dressage. The barn is home to Rock Creek Riders, a therapeutic riding program for adults and children with special needs in the DC area. Past participants in the program include brain-injured veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and people with autism, cerebral palsy, or attention deficit disorder; the program relies on donations and contributions for funding. Rock Creek Riders has worked with the United States Mounted Police, National Park Service, Wounded Warrior Project, the Caisson Platoon Equine Assisted Programs to provide these therapeutic riding services.
The horse center's summer camps are popular with DC residents. The stable offers summer camp from 9–3 for children over eight, a two-hour afternoon camp for children between five and eight years old; the stable recently implemented a summer CIT training program for teenagers. Peirce Mill is a water-powered grist mill in Rock Creek Park. There were at least eight mills along Rock Creek within what is now Washington, D. C. and many more farther upstream in Maryland. Of those eight, only Peirce Mill is still standing, it was built in the 1820s by Isaac Peirce, along with a house and other buildings. It was owned by a son, Joshua Peirce, a nephew Peirce Shoemaker, it became part of Rock Creek Park in 1892. The mill was listed on the National Register in 1969 as Peirce Mill, it was repaired and re-opened October 15, 2011. The Peirce Carriage Barn, adjacent to the mill is open every day; the barn is the National Park Serv
The 2011 TicketCity Bowl was a college football bowl game played at Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. The game was played on January 1, 2011, at 12:00 p.m. ET and was telecast on ESPNU; this game replaced the Cotton Bowl Classic, which moved from its long-time home to Cowboys Stadium in nearby Arlington in 2010, pitted the Northwestern Wildcats from the Big Ten Conference against the Texas Tech Red Raiders from the Big 12 Conference. The game was labeled "The Dallas Football Classic," but on November 8, 2010, a deal was announced for TicketCity to become the title sponsor of the bowl. Northwestern was invited to the TicketCity Bowl after posting a 7–5 record in the regular season; the Wildcats made a school-record third-consecutive bowl appearance. The Wildcats had not won a bowl game since defeating California in the 1949 Rose Bowl, they fell in overtime of the Outback Bowl last season. Northwestern has gone 0–2 since losing starting quarterback Dan Persa to a season-ending injury. Texas Tech finished the regular season with a 7–5 record.
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