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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUYD_civilian-conservation-corps_Crozet-VA.html
During the 1930s, this area was the site of CCC Camp NP-27, which was moved into Shenandoah National Park from Grottoes, Virginia.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUYB_skyline-drive_Crozet-VA.html
Among the scenic roads of America's national parks, the Skyline Drive may be the most famous. For decades the Drive has given millions of visitors easy access to the mountains and sky of Shenandoah National Park.The Skyline Drive follows the windi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUY9_shenandoahs-deer_Crozet-VA.html
"Look! There's a deer!" Visitors often exclaim these words in Shenandoah national park-an amazing fact since deer were not here in 1926 when Congress authorized Shenandoah. Years of hunting and other human activity had eliminated them. In 1934, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUY7_big-run-watershed_Crozet-VA.html
Rocky Top, the high ridge to your left, Brown Mt., straight ahead and Loft Mt., behind you, enclose an eleven square mile watershed, the largest in the Park.One inch of rainfall on this area amounts to nearly 200 million gallons. Some of this wate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUY6_appalachian-trail_Crozet-VA.html
You are standing next to the Appalachian Trail. Also called the A.T., this footpath stretches more than 2,100 miles across mountaintop and ridge from Maine to Georgia. You can see where the trail enters and exits each end of this overlook. The A.T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM235_the-rothwell-family-elisha-wm-robertson_Crozet-VA.html
The Rothwell Family of Albemarle County Virginia. Claiborne one of the first of the Rothwells to live in this county, was born about 1741 as reported in The Virginia Advocate, Saturday Oct. 11, 1828 and "died on Oct. 6 in his 87th year... He was a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIB_crozet_Crozet-VA.html
The town grew around a rail stop established on Wayland's farm in 1878. It was named for Col. B. Claudius Crozet, (1789-1864)—Napoleonic Army officer, and Virginia's Engineer and Cartographer—he built this pioneer railway through the B…