Lost Trails and Forgotten People The Story of Jones Mountain Tom Floyd 1985 PB

Jones Mountain and the adjacent ridges and valleys are rich in history. Here, the story of human events span more than 250 years of recorded time, from the first settlement of the 1720s to a trail-building era of the 1970s. Before the arrival of the Europeans, Indians occupied the Blue Ridge for 12,000 years. Most of Jones Mountain is today in Shenandoah National Park. There are two sites of prehistoric Indian camps, more than twenty former homesties, old cemeteries, several distillery works, two old mill sites, four abandoned narrow-gauge railroad lines, old logging roads, former pasturelands and cultivated fields now grown over, and the site of a military encampment. This book is the story of the mountain and the people who lived there, left their mark, and died there. -- From introduction.
This is another book I’ve had for over 30 years. Purchased it when I worked in DC, my twin sister came to visit and we drove down to Shenandoah National Park. My sis and I had a great time, hiking