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We often watch our television and see the fires of California, Colorado, Arizona and other places. We watch with sadness, but it is hard to imagine the devastation until it arrives at our own back door, as it has done with the recent fires in the Shenandoah National Park.
While many of our residents are new, and see the fire as destruction to the beautiful recreational areas that surround us, there are many of us with ancestors that worked and lived in the Shenandoah National Park.
The loss of the few remaining reminders that there were once homes will likely be lost in the fire, also the remains of the old chestnut post and fallen trees. We will have to rely on our memories and stories to remind us of days gone by which are an important part of our heritage.
For hundreds of years the huge American Chestnut trees covered many acres of the United States, including our county. The chestnut trees were a very sturdy tree that was resistant to decay. It was a tree that provided lumber for homes, fence post, fence rails, furniture and home and food to animals and birds.
In 1904 the Chinese Chestnut trees were imported to the United States. These trees carried a bark fungus - that later killed almost every native chestnut tree in the
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