A frame house, with a metal roof; a frame barn; 1 acre of orchard; timber (sawmill cutting merchantable timber). 229 acres, valued at $4,650. The state paid $6,890.
Map of the tract
Today
House sites and family graves are never marked. Pins show only public places, from USGS place names and other public sources.
Case files
Scanned deeds, surveys and claims, kept by the National Park Service (PDF).
A two-story white frame house with shuttered windows, a railed front porch and lattice skirting, set on a grassy rise beside large shade trees. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file SHEN21206-IIIB098-F57_08-21-1935 & 4001_009_01_02490-Print enhanced.jpg, opens in a new tab, page 1.A two-story frame house with a metal roof, shuttered windows and a lattice-skirted front porch, with a lower wing to the side and a wooded hill behind, seen in late fall or winter. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file WillisLewis_Page193.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 2.A weathered clapboard building with a standing-seam metal roof and a brick chimney, half hidden by bare brush. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file WillisLewis_Page193.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 3.A small gable-roofed shed of upright boards with a latched plank door, surrounded by tall weeds and tangled brush. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file WillisLewis_Page193.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 4.A small board-and-batten outbuilding with a mossy shingle roof, overgrown with vines, with a larger frame house on the slope behind it. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file WillisLewis_Page193.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 5.A board-sided shed with a worn wooden-shingle roof stands in a brushy field below a wooded hillside. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file WillisLewis_Page193.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 6.A small weatherboarded outbuilding with a wood-shingled gable roof, a plank door and a birdhouse under the eave, with wooded hills behind. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file WillisLewis_Page193.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 7.The gable end of a weathered plank barn or shed, half hidden in tall grass and brush below a large bare tree. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file WillisLewis_Page193.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 8.A large board-and-batten barn with a wood-shingle roof and a long metal-roofed shed addition, standing in an overgrown field. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file WillisLewis_Page193.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 9.A long, low board outbuilding with a wood-shingled shed roof, half hidden in dry brush at the edge of the woods. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file WillisLewis_Page193.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 25.A two-story white frame house with a metal roof, shuttered windows and a lattice-skirted porch, partly screened by shrubs. This is a blurred copy of the original. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file WillisLewis_Page193.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 4.
Families of the park
Other tracts whose owners shared the name. A shared name doesn’t always mean a shared family.
