Shenandoah National Park Rockingham County

Ambrose Shifflett farm, Tract 178, Rockingham County

Did you know?Court orders Shifflett's award paid

The 1920s survey

A 5-room log and frame house, 16 by 33 feet, with a metal roof; a barn, 26 by 45 feet; an orchard (fruit trees); timber (locust, hickory, red oak, white oak, poplar, hickory). 325 acres, valued at $6,293. The state paid $7,166.

Today

Landmarks on this map (2)

Places

Beldor Hollow Overlook · USGS place names
Beldore Hollow, Virginia · 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: Beldor Hollow Overlook · USGS place names, Beldore Hollow, Virginia · Wikidata

On Wikipedia

Beldore Hollow, Virginia: extinct unincorporated community in Virginia
Beldore Hollow was an unincorporated community in Rockingham County with homesteads, farms, cemeteries, a one-room school and a village. It became part of Shenandoah National Park, and the area is now known locally as the Beldor Hollow Overlook.
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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.

Shifflett, Ambrose
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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.

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