Shenandoah National ParkMadison County
Jack Nicholson farm, Tract 88, Madison County
Did you know?Jack Nicholson's farm improvements
The 1920s survey
A 4-room frame house, 16 by 25 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 15 by 21 feet; an orchard (6 apple and 10 peach trees); no merchantable timber. 32 acres, valued at $114. The state paid $400.
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.
Nicholson, Jack
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, LOB9 (pages 97, 98), Tax Records, Misc.
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.
- Charles Nicholson farm, Tract 237, Madison County
- Eddie Nicholson farm (part a), Tract 47, Madison County
- Eddie Nicholson farm, Tract 327, Madison County
- Edmund T. Nicholson farm (part a), Tract 93a, Madison County
- Edmund T. Nicholson farm, Tract 93, Madison County
- Effie B. Nicholson farm, Tract 102, Madison County
- Ella Nicholson farm, Tract 89, Madison County
- Emma E. Nicholson farm, Tract 92, Madison County
Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.