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visit L.L.B.com slash guide. Oh, The establishment of Shenandoah National Park also displaced mountain communities living within its bounds.

Using eminent domain, the Commonwealth of Virginia and the federal government seized property from thousands.

Although they were compensated, landowners were given no choice.

Whether or not they owned their land, they were forced to vacate their homes.

I'm Jason Epperson, and today on America's National Parks,

part two of our history of Shenandoah. Andoa. In the summer of 1928 George Pollack hired teacher and self-proclaimed sociologist Miriam

Cizer to teach for two months at a school in Old Ragg, Virginia.

The small rural community wasn't far from Skyland,

and was within the bounds of the emerging park.

Sizer recorded her time in old Ragg, providing an unvarnished example of the attitudes toward rural poverty during the 20s and 30s.

Ultimately, her scholarly pieces were used to justify the forced relocation of hundreds of families who had

resided along the Blue Ridge for generations.

Sizer wrote to William E. Carson, the chairman of the Virginia State Conservation and Development Commission on Pollack

Skyland Stationery.

She described Mountain Hollow Residence as, quote, our contemporary ancestors, steeped in ignorance, wrapped in self-satisfaction and complacency,

possessed of little or no ambition, little sense of citizenship, little comprehension of law or respect. little

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