Thomas A. Jarrell farm, Tract 247, Madison County

The 1920s survey

Timber (chestnut oak). 32 acres, valued at $172.

Today

House sites and family graves are never marked. Pins show only public places, from USGS place names and other public sources.

The National Park Service has no case file online for this tract.

Papers from the Madison County circuit court’s proceedings to take the land for the park, scanned by JMU Libraries.

Jarrell, TA
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.

I reserve all the rail fence falling in the park area to be used to fence the rest of my land outside of park.

— Thomas A. Jarrell, Jarrell, TA, Madison County court land file, page 4. Courtesy of the Madison County Circuit Court Clerk and JMU Libraries, Histories along the Blue Ridge. Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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.