Shenandoah National ParkRappahannock County

C. Brooke Dodson farm, Tract 227, Rappahannock County

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The 1920s survey

A 7-room log, frame and weatherboard house, 34 by 13 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 18 by 22 feet; 1 acre of orchard (apple). 252 acres, valued at $865. The state paid $1,500.

Map of the tract

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Landmarks on this map (1)

Summits

  • Hazel 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: Hazel Mountain · USGS place names

Case files

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

County court land file

Papers from the Rappahannock County circuit court’s proceedings to take the land for the park, scanned by JMU Libraries.

From the case file

I have been advised by Mr. J. Ray Larcombe, Project Attorney, that our proponent has refused to institute suit in chancery to effect the conveyance of the instant property to the United States.
— Howard W. Siegel, DodsonC.Brooke_Rapp227.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 16
In the case of Tract #227, you are the guardian for J. Munro Dodson, the only child of C. Brooke Dodson, who inherits this property subject to the life estate of his mother.
— L. Ferdinand Zerkel, DodsonC.Brooke_Rapp227.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 20
W. Chelf filed claim as guardian ad litem for J. Monroe Dodson, infant, the only child of C. Brook Dodson, and the claim sets forth that the property came by inheritance, subject to the life estate of Lela Flora Dodson, widow of C. Brook Dodson, and mother of J. Monroe Dodson, infant.
— DodsonC.Brooke_Rapp227.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 23

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.