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War Comes to the Valley (U.S. National Park Service)
Although most Shenandoah Valley ... stayed in the Union to form a new state, while <strong>most of the Shenandoah Valley went with the rest of Virginia to the Confederacy</strong>....
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Shenandoah National Park: From Idea to Reality (U.S. National Park Service)
On December 26, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes officially accepted the legally cleared deeds. Because of the unresolved legal status of the park land, National Park Service planning and development of Shenandoah from 1931-1935 was confined to three primary locations: the narrow 100' right-of-way for the Skyline Drive, purchased from willing landowners happy to see modern road access to their adjacent properties, the more than 6,000 acres at Skyland and White Oak Canyon owned by booster George Pollock, and the lands purchased by the Commonwealth at Big Meadows.
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Timeline of the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley — Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District
August 20, 1866: President Andrew Johnson declares the “insurrection” at an end officially ending the Civil War · <strong>There were 326 armed conflicts in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War</strong>, as noted in the National Park Service’s 1992 ...
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Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal | Boundary Stones
The rest is well-known history."[1] ... visitors) is that <strong>the Shenandoah National Park project involved the removal (via eminent domain) of several thousand families living in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains</strong>....
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nationalparkshub.com
Shenandoah National Park's History: The Mountain Families Displaced to Build It | National Parks Hub
That's true as far as it goes, but <strong>it skips the part that made it possible</strong>: before Shenandoah could open in 1935, the Commonwealth of Virginia and the federal government had to acquire more than five thousand separate parcels of land, most of them lived on, worked, and owned by people who did ...
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encyclopediavirginia.org
Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War - Encyclopedia Virginia
Sheridan’s army following Early up the Valley of the Shenandoah · The Burning was carried out by Union general Sheridan, who replaced Hunter in August with orders to “follow [Early] to the death.” Sheridan defeated Early at the Third Battle of Winchester and at Fisher’s Hill in September and then embarked on a war against the land.
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