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2. Potomac Appalachian Trail Club - Wikipedia

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   The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club ( PATC) is a volunteer organization that works to maintain hiking trails in the Washington, D.C. area of the United States. PATC was founded in 1927 to protect and develop the local section of the then new Appalachian Trail. It has expanded its mission to oversee over 1,050 miles (1,690 km) of trails, 47 ...

3. Corbin Cabin - Wikipedia

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   The cabin is unique in that it is one of a small number of buildings located in Nicholson Hollow spared during the creation of the park, and still remains standing despite recent forest fires. The cabin is maintained by the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and is accessible within the park by means of Nicholson Hollow Trail. [5]

4. Ramsey's Draft Wilderness - Wikipedia

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   The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club constructed the Sexton Cabin within the present wilderness boundaries in 1938 [14] Destroyed by fire in 1967, it was rebuilt. Shortly after Ramsey's Draft Wilderness was enacted as law, the Forest Service, interpreting the Wilderness Act to preclude any structures in federal wilderness areas, had the cabin ...

5. Shenandoah National Park - Wikipedia

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   Particularly after the 1960s, park operations broadened from nature-focused to include social history. The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club had restored some cabins beginning in the 1940s and made them available to overnight hikers. Some displaced residents (and their descendants) created the Children of the Shenandoah to lobby for more balanced ...

6. Lambs Knoll - Wikipedia

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   The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club maintained Bear Springs Cabin is located on the eastern slope of the mountain. ... Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, 1993 pp. 116–119;

7. Jewell Jeannette Glass - Wikipedia

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   To the latter, she donated the cabin she had built in 1950 in Fort Valley of the Massanutten Mountains in Virginia. In 1968, the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club purchased land adjoining the cabin, which Glass originally willed to her life-long friend and collaborator [8] Lena Clemmons Artz , and dedicated this cabin as the Glass House, which is ...

8. Appalachian Trail - Wikipedia

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   Trail map. The Appalachian Trail, also called the A.T., is a hiking trail in the Eastern United States, extending almost 2,200 miles (3,540 km) between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and passing through 14 states. [ 2 ] The Appalachian Trail Conservancy claims the Appalachian Trail to be the world's longest hiking ...

9. Rocky Run Shelter - Wikipedia

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   The original shelter was built in 1940 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and completed in 1941 by the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) which currently maintains 240 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Pennsylvania to Virginia and an additional 1,000 miles of trails elsewhere in the region. The shelter is one of 15 remaining shelters ...