Shenandoah National ParkAugusta County

J.W. Palmer estate farm (part a), Tract 4a, Augusta County

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The 1920s survey

Timber (scrub oak, Virginia scrub pine). 210 acres, valued at $315. The state paid $420.

Map of the tract

Today

House sites and family graves are never marked. Pins show only public places, from USGS place names and other public sources.

On Wikipedia

  • Paine Run Rockshelter: archaeological site in Virginia, United States

    Discovered in the early 1970s during a survey of Shenandoah National Park, this small rockshelter yielded the highest density of artifacts of any site the survey recorded, including many pottery fragments and flakes left from finishing stone tools. Surveyors read it as a base camp that larger groups returned to often. People were using it during a shift in stone-tool materials, and evidence of occupation runs as late as the fourteenth century AD. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

    Published Summarized from the Wikipedia article Paine Run Rockshelter, opens in a new tab (revised 1 September 2026), CC BY-SA, opens in a new tab

Paine Run Rockshelter Photo: Nyttend, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, opens in a new tab.

Case files

Scanned deeds, surveys and claims, kept by the National Park Service (PDF).

Families of the park

Other tracts whose owners shared the name. A shared name doesn’t always mean a shared family.

Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.