Shenandoah National ParkMadison County
S.H. and B.H. Spitler farm, Tract 134, Madison County
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The 1920s survey
A 4-room log house, 16 by 24 feet, with a metal roof; a barn, 32 by 16 feet; an orchard (15 trees); no merchantable timber. 110 acres, valued at $1,716. The state paid $3,469.
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 files
Papers from the Madison County circuit court’s proceedings to take the land for the park, scanned by JMU Libraries.
Deposition
Tract 134. Deposition by B.H. Spitler
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Spitler, SH and BH
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In the file: Claimant Worksheet, Tract Assessment, Owner Claim, LOB9 (page 304), Misc.
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From the case file
It is the oldest sod in the Blue Ridge and the finest cattle I have known to come out of the Blue Ridge.
Families of the park
Other tracts whose owners shared the name. A shared name doesn’t always mean a shared family.
- Carroll M. Spitler farm, Tract 133, Madison County
- Jacob Spitler farm, Tract 137, Madison County
- B.N. Spitler farm, Tract 358, Page County
- B.N. Spitler farm, Tract 358a, Page County
- C.N. Spitler farm, Tract 284, Page County
- Carrol M. Spitler farm, Tract 702, Page County
- Flora A. Spitler farm, Tract 221, Page County
- J.G. and Spitler, B.N. Grove farm (part a), unnumbered tract, Page County
Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.