Shenandoah National ParkRappahannock County
A. Harrison Jenkins farm, Tract 214, Rappahannock County
Did you know?A log stable and three chicken houses
The 1920s survey
A 4-room frame and weatherboard house, 22 by 34 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 12 by 12 feet; 36 acres of orchard; timber (hemlock, white pine, poplar, red oak). 471 acres, valued at $1,492. The state paid $5,729.
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).
- JenkinsA.Harrison_Rapp214.pdf (5.9 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.
Jenkins, A Harrison
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
Mr. A. H. Jenkins has refused Two thousand dollars for a portion of this tract, possibly the roughest, consisting of not over one hundred acres
Families of the park
Other tracts whose owners shared the name. A shared name doesn’t always mean a shared family.
- Alfred Jenkins estate farm, Tract 66, Rappahannock County
- Della B. and Charles I. Jenkins farm, Tract 80, Rappahannock County
- Della B. Jenkins farm, Tract 92, Rappahannock County
- E. Hubert Jenkins farm, Tract 174, Rappahannock County
- Fannie E. Jenkins farm, Tract 193, Rappahannock County
- Frank Jenkins farm, Tract 129, Rappahannock County
- Golden Jenkins farm, Tract 67, Rappahannock County
- Herbert C. Jenkins farm, Tract 190, Rappahannock County
Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.