Timeline
1905: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad opens the El Tovar Hotel.
1906: President Theodore Roosevelt establishes the Grand Canyon Game Reserve under Presidential Proclamation 694, November 28, 1906.
1907: Grand Canyon Forest Reserve becomes Grand Canyon National Forest.
1908: President Theodore Roosevelt establishes the Grand Canyon National Monument under Presidential Proclamation 794, January 11, 1908.
1916: Congress establishes the National Park Service through the Organic Act of 1916.