Posted on 02/16/2010 6:45:28 AM PST by jay1949
The establishment of the Shenandoah National Park displaced the traditional communities of Backcountry folk who had lived for generations in the Blue Ridge Mountains between Front Royal and Rockfish Gap. By and large, the houses, barns, and stores which were within the Park boundaries were not spared -- they were razed. [Vintage photographs]
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Thanks for sharing... great photos... I love the Blue Ridge and live at the northern end of the Shenadoah Valley. This is beautiful country.
Good post, thanks! Very interesting - I’ve always enjoyed the Blue Ridge Park but have been largely ignorant of the history behind it.
I love this website. Thanks for posting.
ParcMan does the same thing everywhere.
In hte everglades, ParcMan destroyed every building along the Tamiami Trail (US 41) which they were able to condemn. That neant all except a few Indian groups of a few thatched huts and the occasional trailer.
After destroying everything, the bachelor’s children in uniform created the Tamiami Trail Committee, or some such example of “BureauSpeak”.
Once all the historic structures were destroyed, then ParcMan funded a committee to deal with the very structures ParcMan destroyed.
Your tax money, being wasted by ParcPersons - why?
Because they can.
That's a shame. Too bad they couldn't have done something like Old Bedford Village, in PA. Rather than raze colonial era homes, shops, mills, etc. from around the state, they painstakingly disassembled them and put them back together in a colonial community.
Do you really think that THAT is an appropriate contribution to this discussion?????
I remember the 1990’s Washington City Paper article on the “Highland Clearances” of the Shenandoah area during the park’s establishment in the thirties. It was pretty well-researched and quite sympathetic to those who were run out. I had not known that they had been devastated by the chestnut blight. I had known that the American Chestnut was a staff of life to the Eastern Woodlands and was probably the most important extinction in the east—Passenger Pigeon, Eastern Woods Bison and Carolina Parakeet notwithstanding.
*ping* Colonial Virginia
Deliverance was set in Georgia, not the Blue Ridge...jackass.
Not TN, but might interest you.
Yeah, I gather that historically, the “hillbilly image” was frequently dusted off as convenient propaganda whenever they needed to be shoved aside for coal mines, railroads, dams or National Parks.
Think “The Waltons” not “Deliverance”.
Maybe he’s thinking of Blue Ridge, Georgia. ;-)
I went on my honeymoon driving Skyline drive along the blueridge....it is beautiful...but you really need to get a sense of humor. Dont be thin skinned like the liberals or minorities...
I am more than aware of that....see # 15 there numbnuts....and get a life.
If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger.
George Washington, at Valley Forge.
Quoted from the book, Born Fighting - How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. ( A great book by the way)
Other freepers have pointed out that your "contribution" to this thread is utterly inappropriate, besides being stupidly IGNORANT.
I suppose you're a progressive liberal who enjoys joking about Trig Palin, too -- right??
Don't EVER post any remarks to me ever again, as I will NEVER ever intentionally read another comment posted by you.
could you add me to this ping list, please?
The Admin Moderator OBVIOUSLY disagrees with you, Jerk!!
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