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McCroskey State Park
McCroskey State Park (full name: Mary Minerva McCroskey State Park) is a state park in the northwest United States, located in northern Idaho in the Palouse region. At , this wilderness area is Idaho's second-largest state park. It stretches along a ridge in Latah and Benewah Counties, along the border with Washington.
==History==
McCroskey State Park was given to the state of Idaho in 1955 by a local conservationist, Virgil T. McCroskey (1876–1970), who gradually bought up land endangered by logging and cobbled his purchases into a parcel.〔〔 To make the land more attractive to tourists, he cut viewpoints into some of the slopes, built picnic areas, planted flowers, and established a road. The Idaho legislature, however, had serious doubts about the new park – thinking it would not generate enough revenue to justify the loss in taxes – and agreed to accept the gift only if McCroskey, then in his late seventies, maintained the park at his own expense for the next fifteen years. McCroskey accepted the terms, and lived exactly fifteen more years, fulfilling his obligation to the state of Idaho just weeks before his death in 1970 at age 93.
McCroskey named the park in honor of his mother Mary (1840–1891), a pioneer woman who left Tennessee with her husband and children and came to eastern Washington to establish a homestead near Steptoe Butte; she died when Virgil was 14, and he dedicated it to all pioneer women.〔
After his death, the park received less than adequate attention from the state until the late 1980s.〔〔
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