Shenandoah National ParkRockingham County
Wesley H. Baugher farm, Tract 79, Rockingham County
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The 1920s survey
A 4-room frame house, 12 by 24 feet, with a shingle roof; a barn, 14 by 40 feet; 0.5 acres of orchard; timber (white oak, black oak, chestnut oak, white pine, yellow pine). 127 acres, valued at $2,567. The state paid $3,801.
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.
Baugher, Wesley H.
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. J. Baugher farm, Tract 127, Rockingham County
- Annie L. Baugher farm (part a), Tract 70a, Rockingham County
- Annie L. Baugher farm, Tract 70, Rockingham County
- Elsie B. Baugher farm, Tract 185, Rockingham County
- G. Scott Baugher farm (part a), Tract 87a, Rockingham County
- G. Scott Baugher farm, Tract 87, Rockingham County
- George W. Baugher farm (part a), Tract 151a, Rockingham County
- George W. Baugher farm, Tract 151, Rockingham County
Source: National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Historic Land Tracts.