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The Daily Independent
Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina
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Creation of Shenandoah National Park relocated 432 families (2,250 people) from Virginia's isolated, snowbound Blue Ridge Mountains to better-farmed, accessible lands, improving access to education, jobs, churches, and healthcare amid harsh winter conditions.
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IN BLUE RIDGE
AREA REDUCED
Washington
(U.P.)—Converting
176,519 acres of the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Virginia into Shen-
andoah National Park disclosed
some interesting things about
mountaineer life.
Some 432 families comprising
2,250 individuals were moved by
the National Parks Service from
the picturesque area to lands bet-
ter suited to farming and more
accessible to schools, employment,
churches and medical care.
Communities within walking
distance of Skyland, a popular
summer resort for a generation,
have been snowbound year after
year by six and seven feet of snow.
There and in the valleys elsewhere
in the new park, church and
school attendance became impos-
sible in the winter months.
A doctor had never entered the
home of six children, although
one was called last winter when
one of the children had double
pneumonia.
The snow was so deep he could
not get there," said the mother,
"so we just did the best we could.
We're still living.
BACK HOME AGAIN
When officials seeking a lonely
mountain cabin asked their way,
mountaineers sometimes volun-
teered to guide them because of
the difficulty of finding one's way
by directions, although a walk of
from three to ten miles might be
necessary, over rocky and thorny
trails.
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Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia
Outcome
432 families comprising 2,250 individuals relocated to lands better suited to farming and more accessible to schools, employment, churches, and medical care; one child treated at home for double pneumonia due to inaccessible doctor
Event Details
Converting 176,519 acres of the Blue Ridge Mountains into Shenandoah National Park led to the relocation of 432 families by the National Parks Service. Communities near Skyland were snowbound by six to seven feet of snow, making church and school attendance impossible in winter. A doctor could not reach a home for a child with double pneumonia due to deep snow. Mountaineers guided officials over difficult trails to remote cabins.