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Laurie McClellan
Field stone grave markers at a backcountry cemetery near Butterwood Branch.
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Laurie McClellan
Field stone grave markers at a backcountry cemetery near Butterwood Branch.
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Laurie McClellan
Shenandoah’s woods are replete with remnants that former communities left behind, like barbed wire, old fence or gate posts, stone walls, and stove parts.
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Laurie McClellan
Shenandoah’s woods are replete with remnants that former communities left behind, like barbed wire, old fence or gate posts, stone walls, and stove parts.
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Laurie McClellan
Shenandoah’s woods are replete with remnants that former communities left behind, like barbed wire, old fence or gate posts, stone walls, and stove parts.
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Laurie McClellan
Shenandoah’s woods are replete with remnants that former communities left behind, like barbed wire, old fence or gate posts, stone walls, and stove parts.
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Laurie McClellan
Shenandoah’s woods are replete with remnants that former communities left behind, like barbed wire, old fence or gate posts, stone walls, and stove parts.
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Laurie McClellan
Shenandoah’s woods are replete with remnants that former communities left behind, like barbed wire, old fence or gate posts, stone walls, and stove parts.
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Laurie McClellan
Shenandoah’s woods are replete with remnants that former communities left behind, like barbed wire, old fence or gate posts, stone walls, and stove parts.
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Sue Eisenfeld
Shenandoah’s woods are replete with remnants that former communities left behind, like barbed wire, old fence or gate posts, stone walls, and stove parts.
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Sue Eisenfeld
Old rutted roads become the secret passageways to the past.
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Laurie McClellan
The author and her husband bushwhack their way through the old Butterwood Branch area communities.
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Laurie McClellan
The stumps of chestnut trees endure in Shenandoah.
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Laurie McClellan
The historic backcountry offers natural wonders and surprises as well, like pine saplings and a baby eastern ratsnake.
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Laurie McClellan
The historic backcountry offers natural wonders and surprises as well, like pine saplings and a baby eastern ratsnake.
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Laurie McClellan
Farming still goes on in many of the communities surrounding Shenandoah National Park, but in centuries past, families farmed the mountains too.