Shenandoah National ParkMadison County
Ida Lillard farm (part a), Tract 114a, Madison County
Did you know?Ida Lillard's ownership claim
The 1920s survey
2 acres, valued at $6.
Map of the tract
House sites and family graves are never marked. Pins show only public places, from USGS place names and other public sources.
Case files
The National Park Service has no case file online for this tract.
County court land file
Papers from the Madison County circuit court’s proceedings to take the land for the park, scanned by JMU Libraries.
Lillard, Ida
The file at JMU Libraries, opens in a new tab PDF, opens in a new tab
In the file: Claimant Worksheet, Tract Assessment, Owner Claim, LOB9 (page 167), Tax Records, Survey
Courtesy of the Madison County Circuit Court Clerk and JMU Libraries, Histories along the Blue Ridge. Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, opens in a new tab.
From the case file
The land was owned by the late G.H.Lillard,who died intestate, and left five children, one of whom died before he did, and left a child, Marvin E. Twyman
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.