Lincoln Berry farm, Tract 301, Madison County

The 1920s survey

A 4-room frame house, 16 by 23 feet; a barn, 22 by 26 feet; 7 acres of orchard (fruit trees); timber (60% chestnut oak, 20% white and mixed oaks, 10% poplar, 10% hickory). 162 acres, valued at $1,110.

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.

• Berry, Lincoln

  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.

Families of the park

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

• A. J. Berry farm, Tract 333, Madison County
• C. M. Berry farm, Tract 304, Madison County
• Chadwell Berry estate farm (part a), Tract 103a, Madison County
• Chadwell Berry estate farm, Tract 103, Madison County
• D. C. and T. J. Berry farm, Tract 289, Madison County
• Grover Berry farm, Tract 293, Madison County
• Haywood Berry farm, Tract 270, Madison County
• Howard Berry farm, Tract 46, Madison County