Thomas, Leri Melissa.
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Thomas, Leri Melissa.
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Thomas, Leri Melissa.
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Leri Melissa Thomas moved to Madison County within close proximity of the SNP in 1979. In the late 1980s, when the park inaugurated a study of its surrounding lands, she became a leader in the private property rights movement that protested the potential expansion of the park. She contacted government officials at all levels and publicized the perspective of many of the rural people around the park concerning the park's Related Lands Study (also called Adjacent Lands Study) and other activites. Among her neighbors were descendants of people who had been living in the area now held by the park area who had been dispossessed in the 1930s when the park was established. [from Finding Aid].
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Virginia--Shenandoah National Park
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Madison County (Va.)
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Rockingham County (Va.)
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Augusta County (Va.)
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Shenandoah National Park (Va.)
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Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)
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Virginia--Madison County
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