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and lost them. "A lot were not educated,” he said. “1 feel the way the park was handled was sort of a disgrace. There was a lot of resentment and a lot of confusion. People didn’t know what to do."
Kathy Kneupfer, President of the Rappahannock Historical Society, explained that most of the people who got paid $5 or .$(> an acre for their land didn’t live on the land that is now in the park, and most of the people who lived on that land, unlike the Dwyers, didn’t have title to it.
Many of the titles went back to old Fairfax land grants, she said. “He believed that the land should Ik* used. It was leased for a very low rental. People who got leases set up fine farms. It was an unusual setup; they were not .tennants like share farmers. They were people who made their own lives. They took care of themselves with what they found. It was a unique society."
She said by the IMOs when tin- park was established, most of the trees had been cut down. "After 17.ri years, the land was wearing out," she said. "There was a lot of erosion."
< >ut of an original proposal for a much larger park, the park was established with 1%,0(M) acres, M.OOO in Rappahannock. She said the Historical Society has a
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