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Meanwhile, residents and the rangers who had come to feel responsible for them waited in limbo. Those residents who hadn’t made plans for their own departure were asked to sign a “special use permit” allowing them continuing residence in the park.
The signature of the head of each household signified an “agreement to promptly vacate the premises at the expiration of the authorization.”
The permit said that the eviction date would be after the harvesting of crops to mature during the 1934 growing season, no later than Nov. 1.
There was a lot of confusion about whether new crops could he planted, orchards sprayed or cattle grazed on the fields. Many families refused to sign the special use permits, and some families lived so far back that they were simply unknown to the administrators.
And the families didn’t always stay in the same spot. Some moved to the better houses as the families there made their own arrangements and left the park. New families were started in conveniently vacant houses.
S. H. Marsh, author of Virginia’s
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