Elmer Lam farm, Tract 364, Rockingham County

The 1920s survey

No merchantable timber. 13 acres, valued at $211. The state paid $265.

Today

House sites and family graves are never marked. Pins show only public places, from USGS place names and other public sources.

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

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

Breeden, R. A.
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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.
Lam, Elmer
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I know that she and her husband intended to make James W. Warble a deed to her interest in said land.

— Columbia Beasley, Breeden, R. A., Rockingham County court land file, page 11. Courtesy of the Rockingham County Circuit Court Clerk and JMU Libraries, Histories along the Blue Ridge. Public domain.

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.