Shenandoah National ParkRockingham County
William V. Sellers farm, Tract 175, Rockingham County
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The 1920s survey
A 10-room frame house, 26 by 44 feet, with a metal roof; a barn, 42 by 87 feet; 5 acres of orchard; timber (oak (mostly red oak), hickory, poplar, pine). 159 acres, valued at $4,821.
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
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.
Sellers, Wm. V.
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.
- C.H. Sellers farm, Tract 200, Rockingham County
- E.B. Sellers farm, Tract 207, Rockingham County
- Millie A. Sellers farm, Tract 329, Rockingham County
- O.D. Sellers farm, Tract 211, Rockingham County
- T. Alfred Sellers farm, Tract 199, Rockingham County
- T. N. (Dr.) Sellers estate farm, Tract 206, Rockingham County
- W.M. Sellers farm, Tract 197, Rockingham County
- W.W. and E.B. Sellers farm, Tract 179, Rockingham County
Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.