John C. Dyer farm, Tract 98, Madison County

The 1920s survey

A 4-room log and frame house, 17 by 17 feet; a barn, 22 by 20 feet; timber (chestnut oak). 172 acres, valued at $321. The state paid $876.

Today

Landmarks on this map (1)

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: Robertson Mountain · Wikidata

Robertson Mountain: mountain in Madison County, Virginia, United States of America
Near Robertson Mountain lies the Robertson Mountain Site, occupied by Indigenous people throughout the Archaic period. Excavation there produced evidence of how they gathered food, and it is one of the few sites in the park with clearly stratified cultural deposits. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register.
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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.

Dyer, John C
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 (page 152), Tax Record, 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.

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.