Hensley/Shifflet/Powell Cemetery - Shenandoah...
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The Hensley/Shifflet/Powell Cemetery is located down an old wagon road on Roundtop Mountain near Powell Gap.
It is listed in the cemetery appendix of Darwin Lambert's 'The Undying Past of Shenandoah...
Nangus/Shifflet Cemetery - Shenandoah National...
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The Nangus/Shifflet Cemetery is located in Swift Run Gap near the old Spotswood Trail.
It is listed in the cemetery appendix of Darwin Lambert's 'The Undying Past of Shenandoah National Park'.
I...
Snapshots From Appomattox - 150 Years Later
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2015 marks the end of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.
Thousands came to Appomattox to remember and commemorate the events that ended the Overland Campaign and culminated with the surrender of...
Forgotten Timber Hollow - Shenandoah National...
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Years ago, there used to be the Timber Hollow Trail which can be found on old trail maps. The trail followed an old road and went down the mountain through Timber Hollow to Buracker Hollow. There was...
Old Mausoleum - Luray VA
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Urban Westenberger moved to the Shenandoah Valley in the 1940s and built a grand old mausoleum next to his house for his parents. The house is gone, only remnants remain. Mr. Westenberger is gone and...
Abandoned Home - Sperryville VA
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This abandoned house in Sperryville situated at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is seemingly precariously balanced on a rocky slope.
Often times, when exploring abandoned houses, we wonder...
Abandoned Log Cabin - Roxboro NC
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A log cabin with no running water stands empty among the trees and undergrowth. The residents are gone, but forgotten reminders hint at its past.
Hazel River Homesites - Shenandoah National Park...
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There are several abandoned homesites near Hazel River inside the boundary of SNP. As time marches on, most have become overgrown and forgotten as Mother Nature reclaims her own.
Barbee Bower - Shenandoah National Park VA
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William Randolph Barbee was a renowned sculptor who lived most of his life in Luray, VA. He was born in 1816 at the Hawburg which no longer exists. He died in 1868 at the Bower which was about ΒΌ...
Jenkins/Atkins/Wharton Cemetery - Shenandoah...
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An old mountaineer cemetery is located in a clearing atop a ridge near Jenkins Hollow and Sperryville. There are about 20 fieldstones. None are inscribed and dates are...
Huffman Homesite - Shenandoah National Park VA
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The abandoned homesite of Joseph Huffman is located near the Butterwood Branch stream west of the abandoned Butterwood Trail off Pass Mountain.
This was probably one of the more fancier mountaineer...
Sams Run Abandoned Homesites - Shenandoah...
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The abandoned Sams Run Trail which cuts off the Hazel Mountain Trail near the intersection of the Sams Ridge/Broad Hollow Trail passes four homesites. The trail is extremely overgrown and in some...
Menefee Cemetery & Homesite - Shenandoah National...
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The Menefee Cemetery is on a hilltop deep in the woods in the vicinity of the Pass Mountain Trail and Oventop Mountain. It is estimated there are 24-30 burials, but only one engraved marker for...
Brown Cemetery - Shenandoah National Park VA
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The Brown Cemetery is at the head of the Butterwood Branch west and uphill from the abandoned Butterwood Trail on Pass Mountain. A few fieldstones, depressions and decaying fence posts were found in...