Madison Corbin farm, Tract 29, Madison County

Did you know?All timber had been removed

The 1920s survey

A 4-room log house, 19 by 25 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 20 by 23 feet; an orchard (30 fruit trees). 34 acres, valued at $186. The state paid $768.

Today

Landmarks on this map (1)

Places

Corbin Cabin · Wikidata

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

Landmarks in this tract: Corbin Cabin · Wikidata

On Wikipedia

Corbin Cabin: building in Virginia, United States
Built by George T. Corbin in 1909, this log cabin is one of the few buildings in Nicholson Hollow spared when the park was created; Corbin had to leave in 1938 when the land became part of Shenandoah National Park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 and still stands despite recent forest fires.
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Corbin Cabin Photo: Shenandoah National Park from Virginia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, opens in a new tab.

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.

Corbin, Madison estate
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, Notary, LOB9 (pages 249, 250)
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.

Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.