Shenandoah National ParkWarren County

J.J. Miller estate farm, Tract 46, Warren County

Did you know?Over 3,000 Residents Displaced

The 1920s survey

2,438 acres, valued at $4,513. The state paid $5,824.

Map of the tract

Today
Landmarks on this map (5)

Places

  • Browntown Valley Overlook · USGS place names
  • Gimlet Ridge Overlook · USGS place names

Summits

  • Little Hogback Mountain · USGS place names
  • South Marshall · USGS place names

Falls

  • Miller Falls · USGS place names

House sites and family graves are never marked. Pins show only public places, from USGS place names and other public sources.

Landmarks in this tract: Browntown Valley Overlook · USGS place names, Gimlet Ridge Overlook · USGS place names, Little Hogback Mountain · USGS place names, Miller Falls · USGS place names, South Marshall · USGS place names

Case files

Scanned deeds, surveys and claims, kept by the National Park Service (PDF).

From the case file

According to C.T. Edmonds who was in the area in the late 1800s, the chestnut oak bark from this area was used historically by F. P. Cover (Cover Brothers) in leather manufacturing at his tannery in Browntown until he moved his company in 1901 when the chestnut oak timber had been removed from the tract.
— Kandace Muller, MillerJ.J.Estate_Warren46_Part 1.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 4
Following F.P. Cover (Cover Brothers) the Virginia Hardwood Manufacturing Company removed almost all the ash, hickory and oak to make handles, staves and heading.
— Kandace Muller, MillerJ.J.Estate_Warren46_Part 1.pdf, opens in a new tab, page 4

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.