Shenandoah National Park Rappahannock County

Andrew J. Clark farm, Tract 138, Rappahannock County

Did you know?Three dwellings on the tract

The 1920s survey

A 4-room frame and weatherboard house, 14 by 18 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 12 by 16 feet; 1 acre of orchard (75 fruit trees); timber (oak, yellow pine). 288 acres, valued at $1,178. The state paid $1,503.

Today

Landmarks on this map (1)

Summits

Oventop Mountain · USGS place names

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: Oventop Mountain · USGS place names

Case files

Scanned deeds, surveys and claims, kept by the National Park Service (PDF).

ClarkAndrew_Rapp138.pdf (4.7 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.

Clark, AJ
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

Andrew J. Clark and Alice Cora Clark, photographed together in their yard in August 1937, with laundry drying on a line behind them. Photo: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, case file ClarkAndrew_Rapp138.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 4. The same photo is in the case file of Andrew J. Clark farm (part a), Tract 138a, Rappahannock County and Andrew J. Clark farm (part d), Tract 138d, Rappahannock County.

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.