O.N. Shifflett farm, Tract 201, Madison County

The 1920s survey

A 4-room frame house, 25 by 32 feet, with a paper roof; 5 acres of orchard (apple); timber (chestnut oak, poplar, basswood, red oak). 275 acres, valued at $1,380. The state paid $3,240.

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.

• Shifflett, ON

  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

  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.

Families of the park

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

• Finney Shifflett farm, Tract 344, Madison County
• W.T. Shifflett farm, Tract 209, Madison County
• Adam Shifflett farm, Tract 167, Albemarle County
• Ahaz Shifflett farm, Tract 194, Rockingham County
• Alex W. Shifflett farm, Tract 177, Rockingham County
• Ambrose Shifflett farm, Tract 178, Rockingham County
• Andrew J. Shifflett farm, Tract 166, Albemarle County
• Barbara Shifflett farm, Tract 192, Rockingham County