Shenandoah National ParkMadison County

Hubert R. Brown farm (part a), Tract 119a, Madison County

Did you know?Compensation Varied Widely

The 1920s survey

A 6-room frame house, 16 by 32 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 24 by 39 feet; 6 acres of orchard (255 apple trees); timber (scattered merchantable timber). 114 acres, valued at $2,044.

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.

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.

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.