Environment and Climate

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Shenandoah National Park in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia was created in 1926 to preserve an area of natural beauty and provide recreational opportunities for the people in the surrounding region. Long populated by Siouan- and Iroquoian-speaking Indians, the area was first opened for settlement by whites early in the eighteenth century. When the National Park Service expressed an interest in a park in the Appalachian Mountains, a group of . . .

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Diet–Kepone

Diet in Early Virginia Indian Society
Early Archaic Period
Hurricane Camille (August 1969)
Kepone (Chlordecone)

Little–Rye

Little Ice Age and Colonial Virginia, The
Modern Environmental History of Virginia
Paleoindian Period (16,000–8000 BC)
Rye Cove Cyclone

Shenandoah–Weather

Shenandoah National Park
Starving Time, The
Weather during the Civil War

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Environment and Climate

Diet–Kepone

Little–Rye

Shenandoah–Weather