National Park Service announces David Smith as Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s new superintendent

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service on Jan. 9. It is reproduced in full below.

The Shenandoah Valley supported human settlement for thousands of years that continues today. Virginia's colonial land policies meant both opportunity for colonists but danger for those human buffers against colonial conflicts. Not all settlement was voluntary; enslaved inhabitants shaped the Valley's history too.

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Belle Grove Portraits

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Cedar Creek & the French and Indian War

Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service