Shenandoah National ParkMadison County
H.M. Lillard estate farm, Tract 208, Madison County
Did you know?Log tenant house with stone chimney
The 1920s survey
A 4-room log house, 19 by 26 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 25 by 33 feet; 7 acres of orchard (apple); timber (chestnut oak, red oak, poplar). 172 acres, valued at $726. The state paid $2,980.
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, HM estate
The file at JMU Libraries, opens in a new tab PDF, opens in a new tab
In the file: Claimant Worksheet, Tract Assessment
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
These respondents, for answer to the said petition, answer and say that they are infants of tender years, and, therefore, are incapable of knowing and defending their rights and interests therein. They therefore submit their interests therein to the care and protection of the Court and pray that no order may be entered to their prejudice.
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.