Shenandoah National ParkRockingham County
John A. Hensley farm, Tract 56, Rockingham County
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The 1920s survey
Timber (scrub pine, yellow pine, mixed oaks, hickory). 83 acres, valued at $986.
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.
Hensley, John A. & others
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.
From the case file
Affiant also went with the Appraisal Board upon the property, and pointed out to them where the sample of the ore sent to the Government was taken from; in the face of the report from the assaying office as to the fact that gold did exist in said land, the Board still refused to make any report in connection therewith.
Families of the park
Other tracts whose owners shared the name. A shared name doesn’t always mean a shared family.
- A. E. and Hensley, A. L. Dean farm, Tract 58, Rockingham County
- A. Lewin Hensley farm (part a), Tract 101a, Rockingham County
- A. Lewin Hensley farm, Tract 101, Rockingham County
- A.L. and Clinton Hensley farm, Tract 36, Rockingham County
- E.E. Hensley farm (part a), Tract 22a, Rockingham County
- E.E. Hensley farm, Tract 22, Rockingham County
- Edgar A. Hensley farm (part a), Tract 216a, Rockingham County
- Edgar A. Hensley farm, Tract 216, Rockingham County
Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.