Shenandoah National ParkRockingham County

Vernon Foltz farm, Tract 48, Rockingham County

Did you know?Award of $4,880 for Tract 48

The 1920s survey

A 2-room log house, 18 by 28 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 34 by 48 feet; 3 acres of orchard; timber (mixed oaks, poplar). 143 acres, valued at $4,555.

Map of the tract

Today
Landmarks on this map (1)

Cemeteries

  • Dean Cemetery · 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: Dean Cemetery · 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.

From the case file

He is of the opinion that this real estate is worth about $70.00 per acre, or as a whole, approximately $10,000.00, not including the improvements recently placed upon said tract.
— Grover C. Koontz, Fultz, Vernon, Rockingham County court land file, opens in a new tab, page 20. Courtesy of the Rockingham County Circuit Court Clerk and JMU Libraries, Histories along the Blue Ridge. Public domain, opens in a new tab.
He is of the opinion that this real estate is worth approximately $9,000.00, exclusive of the recent improvements put upon said tract.
— John W. Strole, Fultz, Vernon, Rockingham County court land file, opens in a new tab, page 20. Courtesy of the Rockingham County Circuit Court Clerk and JMU Libraries, Histories along the Blue Ridge. Public domain, opens in a new tab.
that said public sale was held a great many years before the proposed Shenandoah National Park was ever thought of
— Vernon W. Foltz, Fultz, Vernon, Rockingham County court land file, opens in a new tab, page 5. Courtesy of the Rockingham County Circuit Court Clerk and JMU Libraries, Histories along the Blue Ridge. Public domain, opens in a new tab.
that said land has been used by your petitioner ever since the purchase thereof as a grazing farm, and the same will graze between 60 and 80 head of cattle each and every season
— Vernon W. Foltz, Fultz, Vernon, Rockingham County court land file, opens in a new tab, page 5. Courtesy of the Rockingham County Circuit Court Clerk and JMU Libraries, Histories along the Blue Ridge. Public domain, opens in a new tab.
that your petitioner considers the sum of Fourteen Thousand Three Hundred ($14,300) Dollars a fair market value of said real estate
— Vernon W. Foltz, Fultz, Vernon, Rockingham County court land file, opens in a new tab, page 6. 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.