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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Shenandoah National ParkEmma Susan Weakley on the porch of the family homestead at Big Meadows (ca 1920)
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Shenandoah National Park
Mountain Residents
Myrtle Reynolds and others.

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Myrtle Reynolds and others.

"Miriam M. Sizer: Patroness or Patronizing"
by Reed Engle, Cultural Resource Specialist
from the Resource Management Newsletter, July 1996

"Thoughts on Whiskey"
by Reed Engle, Cultural Resource Specialist
from the Resource Management Newsletter, April 1996

"Survey of Rural Mountain Settlement"
by Audrey J. Horning, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

When Past is Present :
Archaeology of the Displaced in Shenandoah National Park
by Audrey J. Horning,
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation/ The Queen's University of Belfast

 

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The CCC Camp at Skyland (NP-1) was the first Civilian Conservation Camp in the National Park Service.  

Did You Know?
The first Civilian Conservation Corps camp in a national park was Shenandoah National Park’s NP-1 established near Skyland in May 1933. The second National Park Service camp was also in Shenandoah National Park, camp NP-2 at Big Meadows.
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