Hoover Legacy Sparks Shenandoah National Park Link
Dr William J Showalter recalls how Herbert Hoover chose a Rapidan area camp as a catalyst for the Shenandoah National Park. The piece highlights Hoover's outreach to mountain communities, the Ray Bruracker possum tale, and the parkway project later known as the Skyline Drive with broader national recreation aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapidan
Ramsay MacDonald
Ishbel
Mr. Hoover
Joel T. Boone
Lawrence Richey
Ray
Camp J
Christine West
Kentucky
Virginia's Tourism Drive Ties Histories to Roads and Monuments
The passage credits Louis Cramton and the Virginia State Commission on Conservation and Development for promoting the Yorktown Jamestown National Monument, Shenandoah National Park connections, and the Parkway of a Thousand Vistas. It highlights historic battlefields, scenic regions, and planned expansions like Mt Vernon Boulevard to Wakefield and a Cape Henry Seaside, shaping Virginia as a 1933 tourist hub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carson
Hoover
Virginia State Commission
Shenandoah National Park
Washington
White House
Rapidan Country
Major Long
U. S. Marine Corps
Lim'ts
the Rapidan
Rapidan
Civilization
Isaak Walton
Glenn Smith
Lu. &. Geological Survey
Shenandoah
Great Bie Ridge
Virginia
Blue Ridge
America
Skyline Drive
Lee Highway
Hawksbill
Horace Albright
National Park Service
Mountain
Mr. Hoover
Mt. Vernon
Wakefield
George Washington
Louis
Cramton
Yorktown-Jamestown
Battefields
Old Dominion
Army of
Army of the Potomac
Harry Sord
State Commission On Conservation and Development
Louis Cramton
Yorktown-Jamestown National Monument
Congress
State Commission On Conservation
Mt Vernon Boulevard
Cape Henry
Thornton's Gap
Swift Run Mill
Dogue Run
Re Gap
Loveliest Blues and Florals Describe Angie O35 Wig
Interior description lists blues roses orchids golds and greens with reference to Angie O35 and a wig.
Unbalanced elements signal troubled page fragment
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered words and nonsensical sequence suggesting a disrupted line or torn column. No identifiable people places organizations events or dates are readable to anchor a proper news item.
Children’s Spring Pattern 9533 For Jacke and Frock
Pattern 9533 offers a kid size 4 to 12 sewing set with a gathered sleeve Jacke and a chic frock using woolens or novelty cottons. Includes step by step instructions and yardage for size 10. Order by sending fifteen cents to Marian Martin Pattern Catalog, 232 West 8th Street New York City.
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Marian Martin
Tor Evening Star Patternment
West 8Th Street
New York City
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William J. Showalter
Es States
Mr. Weather
Press Coolidge
Park
Rapida
Middletown State Bank, Inc
Middletown
Frederick
State of
State Car Commission
Otal
Pete Eeeesessees
Gatigentas
W R Campbell
Middletown State Inc
State of Virginia
W R. Campbell
M H
State
Yan
W. R. Campbell
C. Fais
E. Kline
Nota
Ry Senne
Otto
Dean
Etta Kett
BY Paul Robinson
Nou
Gettysburg
Antietam
Tts
Seven Pines
Mechanicsville
Farnes Mill
Cold Harbor
Frazier’s Farm
Malvern Hill
Cedar Mountain
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Wilderness
Piedmont
Sateer
Angie
Sylvania
Triumph
Montgomery Ward & CO
Pated
T. F. Timberlake
the Linen Store
Hamburger’s
Hamburgers
Specalty
North Main Street
Mouing & Cather
Betty Shoppe
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