Shenandoah National ParkRappahannock County
H.H. Hudson farm, Tract 113, Rappahannock County
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The 1920s survey
A 5-room log house, 16 by 24 feet, with a metal roof; a barn, 20 by 40 feet; 20 acres of orchard (apple (Pippins, Yorks)); timber (chestnut oak, poplar). 188 acres, valued at $684.
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
Scanned deeds, surveys and claims, kept by the National Park Service (PDF).
- HudsonH.H._Rapp113.pdf (4.2 MB, PDF, opens in a new tab)
- HudsonH.H._Rapp113_I.pdf (2.6 MB, PDF, opens in a new tab)
- HudsonH.H._Rapp113_II.pdf (2.5 MB, PDF, opens in a new tab)
County court land file
Papers from the Rappahannock County circuit court’s proceedings to take the land for the park, scanned by JMU Libraries.
Hudson, H.H.
The file at JMU Libraries, opens in a new tab PDF, opens in a new tab
Courtesy of the Rappahannock County Circuit Court Clerk and JMU Libraries, Histories along the Blue Ridge. Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, opens in a new tab.
From the case file
Under this general procedure, you will be safe in assuming that the owners of the Hudson and Hite orchards will be permitted to harvest the 1936 crop if title is transferred prior to the time of harvest.
Any arrangements between the owners of the orchards and the Nicholson Bros. will be purely a matter of arrangements between them, in which the Resettlement Administration is not at all interested.
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.