Discovering Via Mountain: The Story Of A Mountain Family And A National Park [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

Discovering Via Mountain is a journey back in time to a place called Via Gap. It was a mountain community where life was simple but difficult. Travel with a Virginia Family to the Blue Ridge Mountains toa a land that became a National Park. This is a story of triumph and tragedy, of gain and loss. America gained a park but so many people lost their ancestral home. For two hundred years people lived in the Piedmont until a few men, some committees, two governments and a few Presidents decided that a new national park should be created on private land. The question of how to displace a mountain people was a new challenge and a new threat for residents of the Blue Ridge in many countries of Virginia. One man stepped up to the plate to challenge the State and Federal government in court and the legal fight to the Supreme Court began. Read more