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Cooperation has always been part of Shenandoah National Park's story. Without a variety of people and interests working together, and sometimes at odds, you and I wouldn’t be here. Individuals and agencies, dreamers and bureaucrats, school children and headline makers all made this Park happen.
Where do we start? To tell the story of Shenandoah, a good place to begin is the world’s first national park. In 1872 Ulysses S. Grant, the environmentally sensitive President, signed the bill establishing Yellowstone National Park. Whether he realized quite what he was doing, I’ve not been able to find out. Still, he did it. Someone drew some fairly straight lines around a spectacular —and commercially almost worthless —piece of Federally owned lands. Almost by magic, Yellowstone National Park was bom. There was no park service then, so the United States Cavalry was called in to take care of it.
Over the next 30 or so years, more national parks were created out of lands held by the Federal government. Most were on a grand scale, in part to show the nations of Europe that we had something that they did not. Without the history, art, and architecture of older nations — and mostly blind to what the indigenous peoples had to offer —many sought ancient cathedrals ih nature, heroic stories in the wilderness.
In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law the Antiquities Act. It was just up T. R.’s alley. It gave the President power to preserve landmarks, structures and other objects of
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