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The Acting Superintendent's Headquarters in
Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park ( ) is a List of national parks of the United States, national park of the United States in California. It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The p ...
was built by the U.S. Army at Camp A.E. Wood in the Wawona district of the park in 1904 to house the commander of the military administration that operated the park in the years prior to the establishment of the
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. It was moved to the
Yosemite Valley Yosemite Valley ( ; ''Yosemite'', Miwok for "killer") is a U-shaped valley, glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California, United States. The valley is about long a ...
in 1906. The Acting Superintendent's Headquarters is the last remaining structure at Wawona associated with the park's military administration. The cabin followed the military to the Yosemite Valley, remaining there until 1958, when it was moved back to Wawona. It is part of the Pioneer Yosemite History Center. The cabin is a by -story frame structure with board-and-batten siding and redwood shingle roof. The roof is very steeply pitched. A small porch fronts the building. It was used as a residence while in the Yosemite Valley. It is now part of an exhibit on the Army administration in the park. The Acting Superintendent's Headquarters was placed on the
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on June 9, 1978.


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*Other structures at the Pioneer Yosemite History Center include: :* Chris Jorgenson Studio :* Hodgdon Homestead Cabin :*
Wawona Covered Bridge The Wawona Covered Bridge is a covered bridge spanning the South Fork Merced River near Wawona, California, in Yosemite National Park. The open bridge (without the covering) was built by Galen Clark, the steward of what was then called the Yosem ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Yosemite National Park This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yosemite National Park. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Yosemite National Park, Californi ...


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