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among these Barbour-Shirley settlement parcels is one of 5,000+ acres that eventually came into the possession of George Freeman Pollock. Pollock was the driving force behind the creation of the Shenandoah National Park in the 1920s.
He too faced numerous questions of disputed ownership on portions of his parcel. He (apparently) condescendingly referred to many of the land’s occupants as “squatters”; a term that even today causes bitter resentment in descendants of mountain residents. It turns out that in many cases, Pollock was wrong. Most of the mountain folk had purchased their land in what they believed to be legal transactions. But... unfortunately for them, in the age-old story, them’s with the money and influence often prevailed in the title conflicts - but not always.
Red tape
So, when you see the little red tapes along the roadside, don’t panic. Just remember, that land (all of our now beloved Rappahannock land) was part of one of the Big or more likely, the REALLY BIG (Fairfax) surveys, and there
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