Shenandoah National Park Rockingham County

Jacob Yost farm (part a), Tract 165a, Rockingham County

Did you know?Timber values struck from the record

The 1920s survey

A 3-room frame house, 14 by 18 feet, with a paper roof; a barn, 14 by 19 feet; timber (white oak, white pine, red oak, poplar). 3,277 acres, valued at $5,904. The state paid $5,905.

Today

Landmarks on this map (2)

Summits

Rocky Mount · USGS place names

Streams

Bearwallow Run · 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: Bearwallow Run · USGS place names, Rocky Mount · USGS place names

Case files

The National Park Service has no case file online for this tract.

County court land file

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

Yost, Jacob Trustee
The file at JMU Libraries, opens in a new tab PDF, opens in a new tab
Courtesy of the Rockingham County Circuit Court Clerk and JMU Libraries, Histories along the Blue Ridge. Public domain, 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.

Jacob Yost farm, Tract 165, Rockingham County

Did you know?

Timber values struck from the record
A timber cruiser, Mr. Smith, had put timber on the runs at $1.50 per thousand feet and Big Run at $2.00, for a total of $4,117.50. Both sides' lawyers then agreed to strike those figures from the record, because he had been called as an expert on timber quantity, not value.
From the records How we know
Bank trustee paid $5,905 for Tract 165-a
Augusta National Bank of Staunton, as trustee, was paid $5,905.00 in full settlement of tract #165-a.
From the records How we know
Timber quantity in two counties
The witness reported a total cruise of timber in Rockingham County of one million nine hundred sixty-eight thousand four hundred feet and in Augusta County of two hundred and ten thousand feet.
From the records How we know
Valuation of Tract 165-A
Tract number 165 A, containing 3,277 acres, was valued at $5,905.00.
From the records How we know
Valuable minerals and timber
In his answer to the condemnation, Jacob Yost, Trustee, described his land as underlaid with valuable minerals and containing valuable timber, some of it fit for farming.
From the records How we know
Valuation of disputed land
Jacob Yost, Trustee, put a value of $200 on his interest in 398 1/2 acres whose title was disputed and tied up in ejectment suits.
From the records How we know
Mount Vernon Furnace tract valuation
The witness valued two thousand acres at Mount Vernon Furnace at $8.50 per acre, totaling $17,000.00.
From the records How we know
Watershed land classification
A witness, Mr. Good, classed nine thousand acres as watershed land, including Two Mile, Mile, Big and Lewis Lower runs. He valued it at $5.00 an acre, not counting the timber.
From the records How we know
Total lien debts on Mount Vernon tract
Master Commissioner Laird L. Conrad's report put the other lien debts against the Mount Vernon tract at $84,348.62, principal and interest, as of March 15, 1928. That was on top of $20,270.51 in debts secured by the $15,000 Alexander bond.
From the records How we know
Tenant house on Mile Run
A tenant house located on Mile Run was described as a frame structure with three rooms, a kitchen, and a paper roof in fair condition.
From the records How we know
Frame house on Mile Run
A frame house on Mile Run measuring 14x18 feet with an 8x18 kitchen was in fair condition and valued at one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
From the records How we know
Tan bark and fuel wood values
The fair market value for one hundred tons of tan bark on the tree was estimated at not over fifty dollars, while one thousand cords of fuel wood were valued at not over five hundred dollars.
From the records How we know

Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.