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Madison County SNP Records: Court Proceedings
Dublin Core
Title
Madison County SNP Records: Court Proceedings
Description
The first series in the Madison County SNP Records collection consists of 363 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 legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property.
Creator
Madison County Circuit Courthouse
Publisher
JMU Libraries
Date
1930-1934
Collection Items
Adams, SEB Mrs.
Tract(s): 193, 191i
Items in Land File:
Claimant Worksheet
Tract Assessment
Owner Claim
Handwritten Owner Claim Attachment
LOB9
Tax Records
Misc.
Aleshire, SR and HL
Tract(s): 140
Items in Land File:
Claimant Worksheet
Tract Assessment
Owner Claim
Aylor, Nelson D estate
Tract(s): 261Items in Land File:Claimant WorksheetTract AssessmentOwner Claim
Baptist Church Nethers Nichols Hollow
Tract(s): 10
Items in Land File:
Claimant Worksheet
Tract Assessment
Owner Claim
LOB9