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Virginia Man Handcuffed and Evicted as Shenandoah National Park Claimed His Land in 1935

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Melanchton Cliser and his family were forcibly removed from their Virginia home in October 1935 during land acquisitions for Shenandoah National Park. Cliser owned 46 acres along US 211 and ran a gas station on the property. Local sheriff's deputies handcuffed him, cleared out the family's belongings, and sealed the house. His eviction was part of a broader, often disputed effort to displace hundreds of Blue Ridge Mountain families to make way for the park in the 1930s.

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