No Good Wrote:
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> Bacon hollow Wrote:
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> > That aint shit! My great grandfather had all
> his
> > land taken away from him completely in 1933 or
> so
> > for the creation of the Shenandoah national
> park.
> > The federal government gave him some cash and a
> > Sears house on a half acre lot in the valley.
> They
> > took his 80 acres and burned his house and
> barns.
> > They even burned the outhouse!
>
>
> That's one raw deal. I'm sure Gramps hated the
> government until his last days.
Damn right. They even wrote a song about Skyline drive, "Highway of broken dreams"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gje9T7EXBRA