Scotland
Dunbar home where the conservation pioneer was born in 1838
John Muir was born on April 21, 1838, in Dunbar, on the southeast coast of Scotland, and his first home on Dunbar High Street is now the John Muir Birthplace, a museum and visitor center. In 1849 Muir emigrated with his family to Wisconsin, and he went on to become a pioneer of the modern conservation movement, remembered as the father of the national parks movement. He was the founding president of the Sierra Club from 1892 until his death in 1914, and he was a prolific writer whose books are rarely out of print and whose message continues to inspire.
