Madison County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Documents

Madison County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Documents

The second series in the Madison County SNP Records collection consists of 22 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. D.F. Anderson and Others, and Fifty-Five Thousand Acres of Land, More or Less, in Madison County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Madison County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the muniments of title for the condemned land, as found in Deed Book 53 in the clerk’s office of Madison county. Additional items in this collection include appraisal commission reports, addresses of landowners, depositions and proceedings from the law and order books.

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