Shenandoah National Park Rappahannock County

Henry A. Brown farm, Tract 206, Rappahannock County

Did you know?Log dwelling with stone flues

The 1920s survey

A 9-room weatherboard house, 16 by 40 feet; a barn, 26 by 36 feet; 9 acres of orchard; timber (very little scattered merchantable timber). 374 acres, valued at $1,693. The state paid $4,618.

Today

Landmarks on this map (2)

Summits

Catlett Mountain · USGS place names

Schools

Hazel School (historical) · 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: Catlett Mountain · USGS place names, Hazel School (historical) · USGS place names

Case files

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

BrownHenryA_Rapp206.pdf (2.6 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.

Brown, HA
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.

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.