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Park Peak Named
To Honor Pollock
. Notice has recently been received^ at Shenandoah National Park that the Board on Geographic Names, U.S. Department of the Interior has approved the name “Pollock Knob” for a prominent mountain peak in Shenandoah National Park near the Skyland area. Previously unnamed, this promontory is located three quarters of a mile south of Skyland and is the next peak immediately south of Busbytop. Rising steeply on its western and southern slopes to an elevation of 3580 feet above sea level, Pollock Knob is especially prominent from the Timber Hollow Overlook on the Skyline Drive.
Pollock Knob has been named to honor the late George Freeman Pollock, widely known as the founder of Skyland, who in 1924 and the decade following, played a vital role in the selection and establishment of Shenandoah National Park.
In 1886, Mr. Pollock made his first trip to the Skyland area which is close to the 4000 foot Stony Man mountain and which adjoined what was known then as Nicholson Free State Hollow. Becoming enchanted with the area, he saw its great possibilities as a recreational site and in 1894, built Stony Man Chunp which not long after became Skyland. In the course of developing- Skyland as a famous mountain resort, Mr. Pollock succeeded in protecting much of that part of the Blue Ridge from rampant forest fires and timber exploitation. ' In February, 1924, a commission was appointed ^to recommend a site for a' national park in the Southern Appalachians. Mr. Pollock, along with others, believed that Skyland region of the Blue Ridge was the best site, and with much personal expense and endless effort, began a campaign to prove it. Once, when Mrs. Pollock urged him to give up Skyland, he said, “Some day Skyland will become part of a national park and I am going to keep that place no matter how difficult it is.’i And, “I am going to do everything in my power to build it (Skyland) into a national park.” He fulfilled this promise to the fullest extent when on December 26, 1935 Shen. andoah National Park became established by law—11 years after Mr, Pollock pledged himself to the project. > George Freeman Pollock was a colorful personality, a master showman, and among the dominant figures associated with the establishment of Shenandoah National Park. He died on September 8, 1919 at the age of 80. 'In proposing the name “Pollock Knob” for an appropriate natural feature, "the National Park Servicers thus assured a lasting commemoration of Mr. PollockY place in Shenandoah National Park histoft. ~
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