Shenandoah National ParkRockingham County
A. E. and Hensley, A. L. Dean farm, Tract 58, Rockingham County
Did you know?A frame dwelling and a log barn
The 1920s survey
A 4-room frame house, 16 by 24 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 12 by 14 feet; 0.5 acres of orchard (8 apple , 20 peach trees); timber (fuelwood). 40 acres, valued at $988.
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, A. L. & Dean, A. E
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.
Families of the park
Other tracts whose owners shared the name. A shared name doesn’t always mean a shared family.
- 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
- Edward Hensley farm, Tract 78, Rockingham County
Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.