To truly understand Shenandoah National Park is to know her stories. Shenandoah is a natural world of trees and rocks, plants and animals; all these are stories that need to be learned. The air we breathe is a story, too, and the water running in streams down into the hollows. Entwined in this natural world is a human history: the people who lived here; the people who worked to establish the park and those who helped to build it; all the traces of human life which remain today. These, too, are among the stories of the park.

Shenandoah History

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