Shenandoah National ParkRappahannock County
Bernard Bolen farm, Tract 69, Rappahannock County
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The 1920s survey
An 8-room frame house, 14 by 40 feet, with a metal roof; a barn, 20 by 36 feet; 30 acres of orchard (apple, peach); timber (chestnut oak, poplar, red oak). 633 acres, valued at $7,855. The state paid $12,994.
Map of the tract
Landmarks on this map (1)
Summits
- Pignut Mountain · Wikidata
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: Pignut Mountain · Wikidata
On Wikipedia
Pignut Mountain: mountain in United States of America
Pignut Mountain is a Blue Ridge summit inside Shenandoah National Park in Rappahannock County. It is cut off from the main ridge by a low gap worn by fast erosion along a geological fault. As of 2010 it had no trails or roads, and the summit could be reached only by bushwhacking.
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Case files
Scanned deeds, surveys and claims, kept by the National Park Service (PDF).
- BolenBernardJ_Rapp69.pdf (5.0 MB, PDF, opens in a new tab)
- BolenBernardJ_Rapp69_Cooper Timber Rights.pdf (0.6 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.
Bolen, Bernard
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
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.