Shenandoah National ParkRappahannock County
Oklahoma Bowen farm, Tract 140, Rappahannock County
Did you know?Abandoned house and apple trees
The 1920s survey
An orchard (apple). 80 acres, valued at $248. The state paid $600.
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).
- BowenOklahoma_Rapp140.pdf (1.9 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.
Bowen, Oklahoma
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
That said Commissioners only allowed the sum of $260.00 to your respondent for said land
That your respondent paid the other three co-tenants the sum of $900.00 for their shares, thereby placing a value of $1200.00 on the land.
That your respondent has improved said land and although land values have depreciated in the last few years, your respondent believes that with the improvements the tract is worth at least the sum of $1200.00 at this time.
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.