Shenandoah National ParkRappahannock County
Samuel B. and Mary A. Pullen farm, Tract 146, Rappahannock County
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The 1920s survey
A 3-room log, weatherboard and planked house, 14 by 48 feet, with a paper and shingle roof; a barn, 18 by 27 feet; 2 acres of orchard (peach); timber (poplar, red oak). 71 acres, valued at $783. The state paid $1,235.
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).
- PullenSamuelandMary_Rapp146.pdf (4.2 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.
Pullin, SB and MA
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
The open land has been very well cared for, and the fields are in a fine state of cultivation.
Families of the park
Other tracts whose owners shared the name. A shared name doesn’t always mean a shared family.
- Bennie Pullen farm, Tract 149, Rappahannock County
- Dudley & Louise Pullen farm, Tract 200, Rappahannock County
- Elmira Pullen farm, Tract 186, Rappahannock County
- Horace Pullen farm, Tract 266, Rappahannock County
- J.P. Pullen farm, Tract 211, Rappahannock County
- Robinson Pullen farm, Tract 160, Rappahannock County
Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.