Shenandoah National ParkRockingham County
Wesley A. Dean farm, Tract 50, Rockingham County
Did you know?Log dwelling in poor condition
The 1920s survey
A 4-room log house, 16 by 20 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 20 by 28 feet; an orchard (30 apple trees); timber (mixed oaks, hickory, poplar). 75 acres, valued at $710.
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.
Dean, Wesley 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.
From the case file
That it is true that there is docketed in the Clerk's Office of Rockingham County, Virginia in Judgment Lien Book 13, page 181, a judgment in favor of your respondent against Wesley A. Dean, the amount of said judgment, including principal, interest, 10% attorney's fees, and costs, as of February 6, 1935, amounted to $103.56.
Families of the park
Other tracts whose owners shared the name. A shared name doesn’t always mean a shared family.
- Austin and F. Dean farm, Tract 17, Rockingham County
- Daniel T. Dean farm, Tract 34, Rockingham County
- Dorsey Z. Dean farm, Tract 54, Rockingham County
- E. Dyche Dean farm, Tract 32, Rockingham County
- Edgar Dean farm, Tract 31, Rockingham County
- Emmet A. Dean farm, Tract 13, Rockingham County
- George M. Dean farm, Tract 59, Rockingham County
- J. B. Dean farm, Tract 33, Rockingham County
Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.