Skyland The Heart of the Shenandoah National Park George Freeman Pollock

The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, separating the eastern or Piedmont and Tidewater sections from the Shenandoah Valley, commence at the south side of the gap at Harper's Ferry. Thence, stretching out in a southwestwardly direction, they become substantially higher near Front Royal (at the beginning of the Shenandoah National Park) and further on in the Park, in the vicinity of Sperryville to the east and Luray to the west, they reach an apex in lofty Hawkskill Mountain and in the slightly lower though more imposing stony man mountain. In 1856, fifty years before the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park, a young man came to Stoney Man Mountain and in 1894 (on one of its shoulders, a plateau) he founded a summer resort . Soon known far and wide as "Skyland," this resort was and to a degree, still is the heart of Stoney Man Mountain as well as of the area surrounding it and until 1937, the young man (he never grew old) was the soul of Skyland.
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