Shenandoah National ParkRockingham County

William V. Wood farm, Tract 97, Rockingham County

Did you know?An unfinished hen house

The 1920s survey

A 6-room frame house, 28 by 28 feet; a barn, 24 by 26 feet; 2 acres of orchard; timber (chestnut oak, walnut oak, mixed oaks, white pine, short leaf pine). 125 acres, valued at $3,690.

Map of the tract

Today

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.

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.