 | Virginia
Center for Digital History
This gives a history of the creation of the Shenandoah National Park and
describes the removal of the citizens residing there. Stretching
for more than one hundred miles through the Blue Ridge Mountains and
occupying land in eight counties, Shenandoah National Park is perhaps the
most visible legacy of New Deal policies in Virginia.1 The eight counties
are Warren, Page, Rockingham, Augusta, Madison, Greene, Albemarle,
Rappahannock. |
| Shenandoah's Secret History
By Audrey J. Horning
http://www.he.net/~archaeol/0001/abstracts/shenandoah.html |
| Park Evictions Up to Courts,
Apx 1935 |
| Anger in Appalachia, By Leef Smith
Researchers Fighting to Open Records on 1930s Shenandoah Park
Resettlement
http://www.landrights.org/OCS/shenandoah.WashPost.htm
or |
| U.S. bars access to park records
Critics say officials covering up '30s eviction of hill families
http://detnews.com/2000/nation/0003/30/a02-26628.htm |
| Virginia Property Rights
(covers Eminent Domain and Condemnation, etc.) |
| Sixth Grade Library Unit: an Author’s Visit
This is about research done on the author Carolyn Reeder, by a group of
sixth graders.
http://www.vema.gen.va.us/vemahandouts/IntrotoLibSkills.html |
| What Price This Mountain?
The creation of the Shenandoah National Park. This page was created by
the Red Hill Elementary ThinkQuest 2001 Team.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111620/ |
| What Price This Mountain? The Undying Data
The fifth graders spent HOURS entering data from Darwin Lambert's book,
The Undying Past of the Shenandoah National Park, into a spreadsheet. The
particular data they entered was the amount of land that was sold, the
owner's name, the price per acre and the county in which the land was
located. . . . ,the data can be downloaded in an excel worksheet or a tab
delimited list that can be imported into another program if one does not
have excel.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111620/Undying/data.html |
| "Some there be which have no memorial"
This is about the Shenandoah National Park and that there is almost no
trace that anyone had ever lived there.
http://www.br.cc.va.us/vcca/wright.htm |
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| Is History Irrelevant?
This is about the history of the Shenandoah National Park, by Antony
Heatwole
http://www.clark.net/pub/heatwole/guide/history.htm |
| American Memory Home
Search site for American Memory - Historical Collections for the
National Digital Library. .Search on 'Shenandoah' - many pictures of
families and homesteads.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html |
| American
Land Rights Association Love the graphics at the bottom of the page! |
| Little Devil Stairs Overlook to Appalachian Trail
Crossing
Description of the area where people were displaced and Darwin Lambert
mentioned this area to us (the Red Hill Think Quest Team) when we visited
him.
http://www.clark.net/pub/heatwole/guide/log1/log15.htm |
| National Park Service Act
This is the act that allowed Blanket Condemnation.
http://ipl.unm.edu/cwl/fedbook/npsact.html |
| Research As opportunities arise, research information
will be posted here. This may be information pertaining to current studies
Very informative & a must read for anyone planning a visit to the
Shenandoah National Park Archives. Park Museum Collections: Looking Ahead;
When Past is Present : Archaeology of Displaced in SNP; Archives Visitor
Access Policy; Collections Holdings; Archives Appointments and Directions;
Copyright and Privacy Restrictions
http://www.nps.gov/shen/3b3.htm |
| Shenandoah National What?
This is about the geography of the Shenandoah National Park.
http://www.clark.net/pub/heatwole/guide/what.htm |
| Survey of Rural Mountain Settlement
Three hollows in the central district of the park–Corbin, Nicholson
and Weakley hollows–are presently under examination in the National Park
Service-sponsored study designed to inventory the material remains of the
park’s human past. Located on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge, in the
shadow of Old Rag Mountain in Madison County, Virginia, the three hollows
were home to approximately 460 persons when Shenandoah National Park was
created in the 1930s, having been continuously occupied by settlers of
European descent since the late eighteenth century. Eighty-seven sites have
been located in the three hollows, which cover approximately 2500 acres. The
archaeological evidence from these hollows, apparently the most uniform of
Blue Ridge communities, tells a story of adaptation, alteration, cultural
retention, and individual agency throughout the period of settlement.
http://www.history.org/history/argy/research/argyshen.htm |
| Teaching Advanced Research Techniques To Community
College Students: Examining the Eviction of Mountain Residents from the
Shenandoah
Teaching community college about the evictions of mountain people.
http://www.br.cc.va.us/vcca/i12-cran.html |
| The Outrage
FDR Burned Family Farms, Your home is your castle, right? And no one can
take it away,can they? It is, and they can't, unless they happen to be the
US government and they happen to think that a certain stretch of mountains
might be prettier without your humble home.
http://www.dailyoutrage.com/library/970331.html |
| Shenandoah Valley
Monthly Magazine
The Shenandoah Valley Monthly Magazine is a 64-page publication for visitors
with general information on accommodations, attractions, points of interest,
calendar of events, directories, map, and much more. |
| Shenandoah
National Park Map |
| PBS Program
Shows History Changes at Flip of a Switch, Response to PBS Special, from
David Maurer, Daily Progress Staff Writer |
| The Ground
Beneath Our Feet, and Response
From Former President of Children of Shenandoah |
| Shenandoah
National Park and It's Resident's Pathfinders:
A
library Pathfinder is a document that serves as map and guide to
bibliographic research on a specific topic. The Pathfinders included on this
page were compiled by graduate students in the class, AS 5000,
"Appalachian Research and Bibliography" (1997 to present). These
Pathfinders, like the students who produced them, vary in quality: some are
excellent and others, while not as complete or as skillfully prepared, are
still useful to the novice researcher. The Pathfinders also serve as
introduction to more exhaustive bibliographies covering the same topics. The
bibliographies are on file in the W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection. |
| Our
Sacred Places in Virginia, Front Royal, VA: On Land of Shenandoah National
Parks, WVPT Web Site |
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Following are other links we have found to be useful,
including some sites of descendents, cemeteries, archives and some genealogy
sites:
Archives Visitor Access Policy http://www.nps.gov/shen/3b3c.htm;
Archives Appointments and Directions http://www.nps.gov/shen/3b3e.htm;
Copyright and Privacy Restrictions of Archives Material http://www.nps.gov/shen/3b3f.htm;
When Past is
Present : Archaeology of the Displaced in Shenandoah National Park http://www.nps.gov/shen/3b3b.htm;
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