Corporation Park is a 20 ha (50 acres) victorianpark in Blackburn, Lancashire. It has several lakes, an aviary, a great cliff and some battlements overlooking the town. A hectare (symbol ha) is a metric unit of surface area, equal to 100 ares (the name is a contraction of the SI prefix hecto + are). ... An acre is a measure of land area in Imperial units or U.S. customary units. ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, June 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era. ... An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Lancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster) is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. ...
Many come to recreate in the nearby Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, to explore the Wrangell and Chugach Mountain Ranges, or float the Chitina River, Copper River and other local rivers.
Much of the surrounding land belongs to Chitina Native Village Corporation and Ahtna Regional Native Corporation through the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.
An ancient shift of the Copper River left the small north-south valley that Chitina itself is located in, along with a string of small lakes, which are stocked with trout and grayling.
Blackburn received a charter of incorporation in 1851, and is governed by a mayor, 14 aldermen and 42 cOuncillors.
Blackburn is of considerable antiquity; indeed, the 6th century is allocated to the original foundation.
Blackburn was for some time the chief town of a district called Blackburnshire, and as early as the reign of Elizabeth ranked as a flourishing market town.
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