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Five Exchanges Approved In the first exchange of Shenandoah National Park land authoritized by a specific act of Congress on September 13, 1960, the Park accepted 37.44 acres along Route 211 for 38.58 acres in Kemp Hollow behind Park headquarters. Both parcels lay in Page County. According to Jacobsen, the Park acquired the property to protect land along the highway between the headquarters building and the Park from commercial strip development.
Since adoption of the 1965 Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, Jacobsen noted that trades have been accomplished without passage of specific legislation.
Section 5(b) of 82 stat. 354 in the Act states “the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept title to any non-Federal property or interest therein within a unit of the National Park System...and in exchange therefore he may convey to the grantor of such property or interest any Federallyowned property or interest therein under his jurisdiction which he determines is suitable for exchange or other disposal and which is located in the same State as the non-Federal property to be acquired...Upon request of a State or a political subdivision thereof, or of a party in interest, prior to such exchange the Secretary or his designee shall hold a public hearing in the area where the lands to be exchanged are located.”
Under the 1965 Act, Jacobsen reported that four trades have been finalized.
In December, 1970, Park officials approved a threeway exchange in the southern section of the Park near Charlottesville. Jacobsen
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