13 20 4487 https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/9cb0187f6213d8d2bf6736740a4355da.pdf 5a6b505685f535d620cf2c4ce782fad8 PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #208 - Har riso n , Mrs . E • . • Number of Acres: 73 Location: Two :rt ile Run. Roads: One mile over coun ty road to Isla nd Ford . Soil: Slop e . This trac t is enti rely with in the Park area . History of Tract and condition of timber: The cult ivat ed fiel d on this tra ct is rath er thin grav elly loam , but the soil of the wood sees m to be fert ile . he timb er on this trac t is a bou:e t he aver age for this par ticu lar loca lity . Improvements: NONE . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 43 5 . 00 $ 215 . 00 Cove: 18 10 . 00 180 . 00 20 . 00 240 . 00 ~635 . 00 Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: 12 @ 73 Mine rals: Value of Land : $ 635 . 00 Value of Impr ovem ents: $ Value of Orch ard: $ 620 . 00 Value of Mine rals: $ Value of Frui t: $ Value of Timb er: $ 620 . 00 185 . 00 ·144 0 . 00 Valu e of Wood: $ 185 . OO Value per acre for tract : $ 19 . 72 Incid ental dama ges arisin g from the takin g of this· tract : $ NONE . ~ - ~ -· c:u:ItK. �ROCKINGHAM coONTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #208- a - - Harrison, Mrs . E . w. Number of Acres: 131½ Location.: Mile Run . This tract is entirely within the Park area . Roads: 2 miles over county road to Island Ford . Soil: Slope History of Tract and condition of timber: The middle portio n of this tract has been severely burned over . The remainder has ap proximat e ly 250 cords of fuelwood . Improvements: None . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 131.1. 2 @ $3 . 00 $ 394 . 50 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 394 . 50 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: · $ 200 .oo 200 . 00 $ 694 . 50 Value per acre for tract: $ 5 • 2 8 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this_2ct: $ None . - -- ~ - ~ :_ CLERK �coun ty: Rock ineha m -1st r1ct : stono wn l "20s rs. E . ·,;. Harr ison crear ;e Claim ed: .sses sed Valu e ¢laim ed: n 307 acre s Deed (inh erite d 30 acre s l 21) •• .,,i 36?0 .00 acq_ uired 101..: -• • 1.00 etc. l 21 -- Loc:. .tion : Two mile Run, thio tro.c t is enti rely with in t he Ic rk area . -Laus: Soil : 'Jlop e Road s : One n. ile over coun ty road to Islan d ' Ord. P istor y: r_!he cult ivate d field on thin tr .ct is :rath er thin gro.v elly loam , but tho soil of the \IOOd soemo to be fert ile . timb er on this trac t 1s abovt . the t. verag e for this The part icula r loca lity. I .prov cmen ts: Timb er : NOn . 124,0 00 nd. rt. 5.oo por ft. ,620. 00 Valu e of land by type s: T e Fe. .. oreo.e:e 1 .. o lope 43 10 Cove Valu e :per no~ , 20 . 00 5.00 ?.00 73°" Tota l VllU v '.:1oto.l Valu ·240 . 00 ~Jl ;; . 0 1L6 . 00 ·501. 00 of land Tot0 l v ·lue of impro ver.e n ts Totj_l valu e of timb er f_i'otal v luo of tr ct \.vera e 'V'...1.lue per acre 620 . 0..., 1201 .00 lG. 15 - - -21'0 �Rev ised rep ort Cou nty : Dis tr::. ct : #20 8-a - Lrs . Acreage Cl ait1 ed : ~ •• Roc king b.a n Sto new all · Harriso n sses sed : 307 A. De d : Acgu ired 101 ;. Ass esse d: 1367 0 . 00 A. (1921) for 1 . 00 etc . Are a : Inhe rite d Loc atio n: 30 A.( 192 1) Mil e Run . Thi a trac t is e ti rel., ithi n the Par k a rea . incut:1.br anc es , cou nte r cla i t1ti or lap s : V..,.,lue Cla iued : Boi l : Slope . Roa ds: T o r.1ile s ove r co unty road to Isla nd For d. His tory of ~rn ot and con diti on of t i nbe r: 1 he nid trao -c has bee n sev erel y bu med ove r. dle por tion of this app rox lua tely 250 co:c ds o:f fuel \1oo u. . The rena .iud er ha.a Inp rov emn t a : Non e . Ti nbe r: 250 cord s of fuel woo d © 75¢ per cord -- ) 18 7 . 50 . Valu e of l and bl_ typ es: TyI!e Slop e ( unb urne d ) Slop e ( burn ed) crea tfe 83 Valu e ~er a ~ 50 ~5 .oo 133 Tot al valu e of l and Tot al v;.;i,lue of tin be r Tot al va lue of trac t 1 . 50 Tota l Val ue ,?41 5. 00 75 . 00 ij49 0 . 00- •••• •••• •••• •••• )490 . 00 . ..... . .. . .... .. ................ 187 . 50 ;6 77 . 60 Ave rage valu e per acr e ••.. ••• ••• ••.• • ~ - ~ - - - - ~ - - ~ - - ---= 2\~ �- o8 11'/r s £.. J _,:>Unty: District: #208- Harrison , Mre. E . \, . ~ - Hedrick N W. P . R . Weaver E . B. Sellers Joseph E . Csrickhoff J .w. King LEG·END : Slope Cove ~ Fiel~s ftestocking ~ca1 e - 1 : 20 chains Rockingham Stonewall �.... rs. -----'----' ,._J • ' ,, • urrison . • I rs. ,' . Coanty: .~ckineham Jistrict: :tonew~ll ; . Harrison • ,...e Llers • J. N '. T '";-""O • ::Ju ,, n Harrison ,lope ~cale - l" - JL chains �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM cou:nY , VIRGINIA State Uomm ·ssion on Cons ervation and nevelopment of the tate of Virginia . Filed in the Clerk's O ce Rockingham County, Va, vs. OCT I 1932 Cassandra Lawson Atkins and. others, and 52,501 acres of land in ockingham County, V i r g i n i ~ ~ r k ~ otion to set aside and d.isa ):--,rove the rep or f ~B::a.:f Appraisal Commissioners. Cornes now the claimant, h's. ~- ,, • Harrison, and asks and re~uests the Court to set aside, decline to accept and disapprove the report of the .3oard of Appraisal \)ommis s ioners filed in this cause with reference to this defendant in Tracts Nos. 208 and ~OBA, which said tracts contain 73 acres and 131 1/2 acres , r espe~ t~vely, and are situate near s land Ford, in ~tonewall District, tlockingham County, Virginia; for th e following reasons : ( 1) Because the value placed upon said land and timber by the Board of Appraisal Commissioners is grossly inadeQuate . (2) Because the said Board of ppraisal Commisnioners made no allow nee for damae e to the remaining land of movant. ( 3) Because the finding or findings in ~ue stion are s o manifestly inadeQuate when considered tog ether Tiith the evidence before the Court, as to justify a fiLding that in making such finding or findings t :10 .doard of A_ praisb.l Corn :iis . ., ioners or some of them were affected or influenced by some mistake of law as to the nature and effect of the evidence, with reference to which such finding or findings were made . i{herefore,. the said rs . ~ . ·, • Harri son prays the Uour t that an order may be entered settine aside, declining to accept, and disapproving the report of the board of Appraisal Jommissioners in so far as it relates to or affects the s ic. lands m,ned and claimed by th.e said 1rs . E . ·1 . Harris on. 322. �2. Said. Mrs. ~ . ii . Harrison furthel:' moves the Court to e.~clude her said lands from the ark area and to release her said. lands from the said condemnat ion proceedin gs . Your movant herewith files affidavit s as to the value of the said land . MRS . 3: . W. HARRISON By counsel 323. �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAf1 COUNTY , VIRGIIUA State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Vir5inia vs. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and 52,501 acres of land in Roc1dngham County, Virginia. Affidavit to be read in connection with motion of :Mrs. E. VJ . Harrison to have the finding of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners disapproved in connection with its findings Nos. 208 and 208A. State of Virginia, County of Rockingham, to-wit : This day personally appeared before me a Notary ublic in and for the County of Rockingham, in the utate of Virginia, , who bein ---------------de~oses and says as follows : 0 duly sworn That he is well acquainted with the tracts of land belonging to Mrs .~. {. Harrison, situate near Island Ford, in Stonewall District, Rockin6 ham County, Virginia, known as Tracts Nos. 208 and 208A, in the report of the .3oard of Appraisal Commissioners ,· containing 73 acres and 131 1/2 acres, respectively; that the condeI!l!la tion of the said tracts of land will 12.rgely deprive the remaining tract belongin& to Mrs . Harrison of wood and lumber which will seriously depreciate the value of the same; that the amount allowed by said Commis ~ioners for said land is gross ly inadequate and that he appraises the value of said tracts of land and. residual damage as follows: $2,190 . 00 Tract No. 208, 73 acres at ~30 . 00 per acre Tra ct No . 208A, 131 1/2 acres at $16 . 50 per a. 2,169.75 600 . 00 Residual da,.:1age $4 , 959 .75 / J, Subscribed and sworn to before me tnis 1.? day of September, 1932 . Notary Pu5Iic �IN TI •' CIHCUIT COURT Ob~ ROC .. ING . COillfi.'Y, V IRGINI State Commission on Conservation and evelo..,oent of the State oi' Vir<·1n1a vs. Cassandra Lawson tkins and others, nd 001 ~1ngham County, Virginia. 52,501 aore.., of land in Affidavit to bo read in oonnoction with motion of ?!rb. "'· ,• Harrison to have the finding of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners disa prov ,d in ~onncotion iith· its findings Nos. 208 and 208A. Stato of Virginia, County of RocKin·ham, to-wit: ThiA day peroona l y nipcared before me a Notary Public in ·nd for the County o~ Rockingham, in the State 0 ...D S e Ile r S' of Vir ~inia , , who be in.; duly s orn eposes and says as follo,s: That he is 1011 aoqwinted 11th the tracts of land belonging to ?.rs . '. , • Harrison, sit · te near Island i4'or , in Stonewall Distrlot, Rookin1ham Co\lllty, Vir ·inia, knoin as Tracts Noo. 208 nd 208 , in the report of tho Board of L\.P">ra.isa.l . . ommi oio. .·1 e r • oontainin· 73 acres and 13l 1/2 acres, respootivcly; that tho condemnation of the said tracts of land vill l x·gely deprive the remaining tract belon6 1ng to Mrs . Harrison of Food and lumber rhich will seriously depreciate the value of the s mo; that the amount allo,;rnd by oaid Commis .. ioncrs _for said land io £rossly inadec:,uate and that he a praises the value of said tracto of land and residual damage as foll o1s; Tract Tract o. ioa, 73 acres at o. u per acre o. 208 , 131 l/2 acres at 16.oO per a . Rea idua l da age 2,190 . 00 2 ,169.75 600.00 $4 , 959 .75 "G-:-~ Subscribed and sworn to before me t 1is ~f Je )tember, 1932. <.h~ ' 1 ___/ ' Notary Pub!lo 325 �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia vs. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and 52,561 acres, more or less, of land in Rockingham County, Virginia Filed in the Clerk's Office Rockingham County, Va. r~t.,:Y ~ 1932 / ~er k In compliance with the order entered in the above entitled case on the a5th day of October, 1932, and in response thereto, your defendant respectfully states that the tracts or parcels of land within the area sought to be condemned, ownership of which are claimed by her, am with reference to which she has filed her objections, are the same tracts or parcels which were found by the Appraisal Commissione;r s to be land owned by her; being Tracts Nos. 208 and 208A, as shown and delineated on the map filed with the report and exhibit sheets thereto attached , made by said Commissioner s. MRS. E. W. HARRISON By Counsel � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context harrison-mrs-e-w.pdf Title A name given to the resource Harrison, M. H. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Mile Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 212 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Harrison https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/b338f1ea2112ce653f4bcfb52443a3db.pdf 5e72aec4eb04c07d717adef647ca0d0a PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #303 - Harper , William - Estate Number of Acres: 277 Location: Madison Run . Roads: Three miles via dirt road shipping point . Soil: Sandy loam. Good depth and fertility in cove type . Fair depth and fertility on slope . Free from rocks; gentle slopes . Entirely within the Park area . to Port Republic, the nearest History of Tract and condition of timbe:qthe timber on this was sold to John Nicholas of Harriston, Va . Part of the original stand nas been cut off , but at present no operations are being carried on . Mr . Nicholas has until May 1, 1932 to cut off the remainder of the timber. Improvements : None . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 155 Cove: 122 277 @ $4 . 00 -k620 .00 7 . 00 854 . 00 $1474.00 Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: 800 . 00 Minerals : Value of Land: $ 1474. 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 800 . 00 Value of Wood: $ 400 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ g • 6 o Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . Timber and wood on this tract be.:j.ongs to ~ . L. Eakle Lumber Co ., and is/being cut and hauled at this time Dec . 3 31 400 . 00 ~26'74 . 00 �REPORT ON TH:!: ACREAGE of the WILLIAM HARPER ESTATE TRACT #303 . The reco rds con tain a surv ey of this trac t, but it lack s abou t a qua rter of a mile clos ing . We made a com puta tion of the acre age as a resu lt of havi ng run cert ain line s of the trac t and usin g call s of adjo inin g trac ts for the rem aind er of the boun dary . This com puta tion give s the aref w. }?s 277 acre s. Jf. 71 .x: Jc c:: r~ N. Sloa n, Chi ef Eng inee r, Park Serv ice . �County: iockirwham u1strict: ,tone ell v;n. l nrper, 303 • ".c::-ee 5~e Clai ed: \ .l - e claimed: · Location: 119 225 . 6800. disan Run. Assessed • & • state 22b :Geed u0 . 00 " " 2~6 908.(j(} ?!ntiraly within the ,>art:: area. ~: Sandy oa • Uoo d aepth and tertili ty in vove typo. 'Air depth fe:rtility on slooe. Free 1"rom rocks. {.r.ntle slo;,es. L~ps: ~he survey on t his tract does not close. colletl to~ n eed. Re ... : ~ mile 18 9 via dirt roa.<1 to . ort i. Contains more than 2~6 nd ere, opublic. the neara t shipping tJoim. . History: The timber on this was old to John iicholeu ol' iarriston, Ve. .Part been cut off, but ot Jresent no operations are bain8 oArri ed on. f·r. lUoholas ha untill Hay l, 932 to cut off the rem intler of the timber. 'rhere remFlin bout 200I bd. ft. so ti, ber conaistin ~ of mixed and wh1tn oa s ith small ououn~ ot ya lo pine. 200 bd. r~. saw t·mber 4 .00 H00 .00 of th ori1in1l stnnd ha his is not included in renort of value of l nd. Impro-..mants: None V,uue nar acre Vf . u of lAnd by -i;y es: 1'1J2!_ - Cove Slope Tot l value of land Total value ot t t Avere.~e per acre 5.00 :·.oo 155 277 Total Vtlue 610.00 '165.00 lO?b .00 1075.00 1075.0(, '.08 J Include Tract #310 11, �E . L. EAKLE GENERAL MANAGER E. L. EAKLE LUMBER CO. Dealers and Manufacturers of WHOLESALE LUMBER & PILING WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA 9/I5/3I. ALL AGREEMENTS ARE SUBJEC-r TO STRIKES, ACCIDENTS , CA R SUPPLY, OR DELAY FROM CAUSES BE YOND OUR CONTROL. QUOTATIONS ARE SUB.JECTTO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. Chairman of the Appraisal Board Comm. To 400006 feet of saw timber @$8.00 K. "1600 Cords of wood and slabs @50.¢' c. $32000.00 800.00 -------- $4000.00 Timber on 200 Acres Va. near Port Republic, Iand of W.C.Ha.rper. \\l... �County: District: Rockingham Stonewall #303 - Harper, \Im ., Estate V. Lancaster L EGEN D: - - - - - Cove Slope Scale - 1" = 20 chains '·HS � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context harper-william-estate.pdf Title A name given to the resource Harper, William Estate Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Madison Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 303 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Harper https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/cb06aacc3f4c0fd9aadb5b1e39c56406.pdf 7c193cea6ace701d61453c2181fc4e4c PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT 310 - Harper , JOhn - Estate Number of Acres: 119 Location: Madison Run • .:.1ntirely within the Park area . 222- 223 and 224 . Roads: Two miles via dirt road to Port Republic , the nearest shipping point . Soil: . Dark sandy loam , cove type and is of a BOOd depth of fertili t.y , level a nd fairly smooth, some scattering loose rock . u. S . Positions History of Tract and condition of timber: -i..11 t he merohantable saw timber on this tract has been sold and part removed . 1he rest to be cut later . Improvements: None . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: Cove: 119 ~7 . oo $833 . 00 Grazing Land: Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land: Orchard: 200 . 00 Minerals: Value of Land: $ 833 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ 237 . 00 1270 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 200 . 00 ValueofWood: $ 2:37 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 10 . 6 6 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . CLERK. l2. �Claim of__/d!:_(_._Jj_"::t_~~~_j{~-~ -~ #,-f./~~.!..-~~~ In the Circuit Court of ____~~-~~~~~~~----------County, Virginia, No._l.82.9__ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs._.C..a.se_a.ndra_ Lawson Atkins...t..._ et _als ._,__and_ 52.1561_ acres___________ _ more or less, of land in _____ .Ro.9.ld,.:Q.gh~rm.__________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ ______~~-~~!~~~------ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as h~ya~::: s:r_ptti~~,.:hsaid notice.___________________________________ _ My post office address is __ __.E_~-~-~---g/_~------------------ --I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_l_(f~J-~-~A.-: ____ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements=-----~--------------------- -------------------------- This land is located about__~_(L_~____ miles from ____t ! . _ ~ - ~ - - - - Virginia, in the __~~~---Magisterial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) , , -------~ ~-~-~ ~l~-- --~1-~--- ---~--~~-(/.-~-~----------------- ---------------------------------------The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North __ fl. V- f /,vV\ c.. ~ _;- '-- ------------------------------------------------ South ___ )k4i _11~---~Ju'-- u..,__ r<- ---------------------------------East ____ ~ p,-,,(__. c. 7 ;,--c__.. ------------------------------------------------ - - ---West ________________ ______________ ______________________________ ___ __ ________ __ __ __ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year__ Lf:!'f__ in the following mc!nner: './4 -0 ~~ . ~ p_1:_~k-ry-l~ ---------------------- I claim that the total value of tMs tract,or parcel of land with the improvements there~ on is $__6r&'-_9_£_.=.. __ . I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parc·e1 of land with the improvements thereon is $----------------· I am the owner of_ _______________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by· the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $---------- --------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds)., Remarks· ___ ~ h_ n _ t 1 , ~ -~--/2:~_Tt-tA-c..~ __ 'k~__ k--.. ___ ZL - - - ~ _tJ--,p/ - 11., __ LM-r/~1-~-~- ..(""r__?...u-. __ ----~~ -a._ ~~i~~ ---- -t_t---.,1 _~ _ ~v:r---f J_Z-_ 1..-u.-/- J-, ~ t--v -£d - - - ---------- -it:i:-~ ~ ll_rJ= .iZ:z- ' ~ r : , 1 -'----------------~.-LL-~ ~ -/'j3LJ -------------------------------------------- (Continue remarks if ~cessary on t~ack). Witness my signature (or my name and mark attached hereto) this _____ day of __ _~ ~ - ~--------, 19~ •------- _ - ----- _____ _ ----------- --STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF__ ff ~t:d~~ t;-.h-~--, To- it: The undersigned hereby certifies that_ _,W:__f7_:..n.~ 4 - ~--------- -------------the above named claimant personally appeared before hi~-~d made oath that the matters and things apph~ring in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, -7-_______ this______, _________ ',)I,--/ 7 / day of_____ _i'~0_c~:~c'.';u::(:;,~p~tiga~ oI l rYrJ Public, or Justice of the Peace. �_.._...........-~-...................... • 119A & 225 A. 0000 . 110 . (L, a ecs 0 ithin th o: COVG t an( in Of s o th, . . . o, .o ao ttori t . p ... 1 , 1 t road t 1 imber roat ood one. V r O i.l vcr . ~95 . 0 ~ 1~ . rov ot l * fl n Q.l -1 0 lu V lu~ o"' i1 be or tl'\ ot lu v luo r Inclu des Trac t ,. 0 u ·~o .o 33. 0 0 #303 . 7.0 h "a or. o been m tor "'38. 00 s �County: Distric t: Rockingh am Stonewa ll _fj-~~O -John Harp~E._ ~state N • Jos . Pear1.,---:-,-s _,._ Estate LEGEND : Cove Scale - 1 11 : 20 chains � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context harper-john-estate.pdf Title A name given to the resource Harper, John Estate Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Madison Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 310 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Harper https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/9f337f0a72bf4f4ec378244f511575f1.pdf ee663b5b8152f946e41bb3eea7bfc77e PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ;;. NAME OF CLAIMANT #153 - Harnsberger, c. G. Number of Acres: 53 Location: West and over Rocky Mountain, and entirely within the Park area. Roads: Two miles over county dirt road to Yancey, the nearest shipping point . Soil: Sandy loam of fair depth and fert i lity with considerable small loose rocks . ~he slopes are gentle and moderate to the west. History of Tract and condition of timber: The tract has been cut over at various times for many products . There is a thin stand of yellow pine up to 9n DBH with a few small oaks. Improvements: None . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 53 @ $3. 00 $159 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: 50 . 00 $209.00 Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ Value of Improvements: $159. 00 Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $50 . 00 Value per.acre for tract: $ 3 . 94 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE. ~ - / ~ : CLERK. �tioner,'vs. _____________________________________________________________________________ _ more or less, of land in ____________________________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ _________________________ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is ___________________________________________________________________ _ My post office address is _______________________________________________________ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ ___ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: __________ ------------------------ --- ____________________ _ ~ J ______ ----------------------~ --- ~ - ------------------------ ----- ~;,7------------------ ------- --- --------------------- . This l~n9- is located abo~L-~~~~-miles ~rom__ ________ ___ __________ Virginia, in the~~Magiste rial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is so1e owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or ~c~~~~~~~-~~------------------------- The land owners adjacent ~o the a~descri ed tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property. following manner: out the year- ~ i n the / . - 4 - ~ ~ - ~ : ~ d ~ - ~~ - ~L~L ~-t;;- :~:f~ ~~ on is $~CL'!._~--· I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $k-~~L-'=- --:J--· I am the owner o f _ _ ~ a c r e s of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $------------------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he ~hould also insert here a ~:~:: ~ - - -- _: ___,.-,-4-:-~, - ~ ~~ L~ ~ 7 ~~-fe~ark s - if necessary on t~ck). Witness my signature . (or my name and mark attached hereto) this ____ ~-~-----day ~N'n ; ~ ~ .1 ( od ~~-- - -~--------~ - -- '' j �;/P--~~~--- .-~--------- ;;,---------- -- Claim of__ In the C1rcmt Court o L - - - ~ ~ ~ - C o u n t y , V1rgmia, NoL~_',2_, At Law. ::e:,ta::._~~&:;!::~-~e-~-~~ more-or less, of land i n _ ~ ~ ~ - C o u n t y , Virginia,-Defendants.--- ----The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the fili~~~etition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court o f ~ - - - ~ - 4 ! - ~ - County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as h:y•::: ::_~~f.:~:::t· ________-w£: _____________ _ My post office address is________ ___ ____ _______ L ___________ ~------------ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ ___ ~t:2 _______ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: ________________________________________________________ _ I ��County: Rockingham Di stri ct: Stonewall ,1153 - Hara sberger, C. G. Aoreage Clai 1ed: 53 Assessed 53 Value Claimed: Location: " $60 . 00 Gov end ver Rocky Mountain and entirely Park ar ,a. Inoumbran ces 1 co . mter claims or laps: Deed 53 (1889) "$25. 00 1th1n the None known. - Soil: Sandy l.()Am of :fair depth and fertility with considera ble small loose rooks. ·rhe slopes are gentle and moderate to the west . Roads: To miles over(coun ty)dirt road to Yanoey, the nearest shipping point. History or tract and condition of timber: he tract has been out over at various times for many products. rhere is a thin stand of yell ·n pine up to 9'' DBH th a fe· small oaks. '::he estimate is 50 cords of fuel8ood valued 50¢ per cord - ~25 . 00 . Improveme nts: None . Value of land by types: Type Slope ~ creage 53 Total value of land Total value of timber Total value of tract verage v lue per aore alue Rar acre J3 . 00 otal Value 159.00 �County: . Rockingham Distric t: Ston~all _11153• Harnsberg er,c . G. M. I. Long Jacob Yost, Tr . LEGEIID : s 101;e Scale - 1 = ro c ins �IN THC CIRCUI~ COURT OF ROCKINGH " COUNTY, VIRG ILI. .. . Phe st~te Commission on Conservation and ,evelo~ment of the tate of Virginia filed in the Clerk's Office Rockingham County, Va. vs. N~'' .t/ 1932 F ~rk Cassandra ~awson tins and others and 52,561 acres , more or less, in Rockingham County, irginia. tatement made by .,.G.Harnsber~rer entered in the bove entitled cause on .,.itirs nt to a decree ctober 25 , 19.32 , in :-esponse to Item ro. 2 of t .... e inquiry made in said decree. Your respondent says th this interest in certain mineral lands situ te on Huckleberry I ountain in the eastern -portion of • ockin....,h vounty, firginia, ... eport ma de by the Board of ,~snot re orted at all in the pp:ra.isal Commissioners, as has been lully ~et forth in his objection t the confirmation of s id report ,heretofore filed in th..:.s cause. .. plat showin-::., the lands in which your responaent has certain mineral interests is ~iled iith his claim in this matter. Your respondent does not deem it n9cessary for an . . u:rvey to be made of t.J.e exact amount of mineral ccurat~ nds within the Park are , for he is not exceJting to the acreage but to the fact thctt no miner 1 interest \'.ha tever was a.llovrntl him. LAW OFFICES GEO.S. HARNSBERGER HARRISONBURG. VA. �STATEMENT OF ' ) Geo. s. Harnsberger, p.q. 1 ~ j/_~a) (Jl,a, P l ~ ) · ~ _;Le_~-) tf'1~ ~/ ~ C. G. liARNSBERGER I ,-. d STATEMENT OF COSTS, POSTAGE, ETC .: . �In re Arbitration Agreement submitted to the Governor , arising in or out of the condemnation proceedings pending in the Circuit Courts of 1 irginia under authority of the Shenandoah N tional Park Act. State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia filed in the Clerk'~ Offic Rockingham County, a. vs . Cassandra Lawson tkins and others and 52, 501 acres of land in Rockingham County. AU G :1~ 1903 In re exceptions of C. G. Earnsberger . To the Iron. Rl.ilip Williams , Chairman of the Par1[ Land .Arbitration Board. In reply to the rules issued by said .Arbitration Board on August 16 , 1933 , and in reply to your call therein made , the undersigned begs to say : (a) There is no number on the map of the lands in Rockingham County given this clai m by the Appraisal Board , as the same is based entirely on a min eral right . The claim was filed, as is shown by the papers heretofore filed in this matter, but the Appraisal Board did not make any allowance for minerals . (b) This mineral right exists in 235 acres of land within the Park area. (c) s the claim now under consid eration is based entirely upon the mineral rights therein. asserted, the requirements in this section d o not in their entirety apply •. Suffice it to say here: (1) That, although the claim of ten thousand dollars was asserted by exaeptant before the AI>Praisal Board for mineral LAW OFFI C ES GEO. S. HARNSBERGER rights , nothing was allowed by said Board . HARRISONBURG, VA . l't& �--2--The geological reports for both the state of Virginia and the united States show that said mineral rights are located within the manganese ore-bearing bel.t along the western slope of' the Blue Ridge Mountains. vey. See Bulletin 17 of the Virginia Geological Sur- This survey was prepared in co-operation with the United States Geological Survey. The lands in which said mineral rights exist have been partially prospected, and ore of approved analysis has been found, and, from ~uch prospecting as has been done, it is believed that said ores exist in oommeroial quantities. as this tract of land is located about mid- way between the Palmer lands on Naked Creek and the Harnsberger lands at Elkton and in the same ore-bearing belt, it is believed that the statement made by ¥.c.J. Bartells and referred to in the reply made by the Palmers is equally applicable to the mineral rights of exceptant , and the statement attributed to Mr.Bartells and contained therein is asked to be read in connection herewith. The -~10, 000. 00 claimed in this matter is not the full value of the royalty on the ore sought to be taken in this proceeding, but , as the property has to be developed, and as it takes money for such development, no larger sum is asked . The Appraisal Board did not make any allowance for incide tal damage to that portion of the mineral lands which are left out of the Parle area. In this the .Appraisal Board erred, because it is a well known and recognized fact in mining that the greater the acreage the more valuable the mining interest, for the simple reason that it gives more area for prospecting and development . Your exaeptant, therefore, asks that a proportionate allowance be made for that part of his land lying outside of the Park area. Your exceptant requests that this matter be heard at the same time with the other exceptions in regard to the manganese LAW OFFICES GEO. S. HARNSBERGER HARRISONBURG . VA . mineral rights, as the primary evidence in all of these cases will �--3-be the same, only varying as it pertains to the particular tract under consideratio n. State of Virginia, City of Harrisonburg , to-wit: This day C. G.Harnsberge r personally appeared before me , F. Flavia Converse, a Notary Public in and for the City aforesaid, in the State of Virginia , in my City aforesaid , and , being duly sworn, deposes and says : I have read the above statement , and believe the statements of facts contained therein to be true. Subscribed and sworn to before me this ,is~~ day of ,;,..ugust , 1933. --~f__.,..£""'~-~MA% ~'..,....o..,._ t - y;....;..:..~ Pu.;;.,...;b_li-c.__...;.__ _ _ , LAW OFFICE S GEO. S. HARNSBERGER HARRISONBURG. VA. �tiled in the Clerk'~ Office RQckingham County, Va. HENSLEY, H. A. 42 ROCKINGHAM COUNTY SEP '/ 1933 ~kmk IN RE . ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS submitted to the Governor arising in or out of Condemnation Proceedings pending in the Circuit Court of Virginia under · authority of the Shenandoah National Park Act . SUMMARY STATEMENT OF PETITIONER : EXCEPTANTS: Harnsberger, ORIGINAL CLAIM : c. G. Acreage 236 & Jarman Heirs : Value $ 1 0 , 00 Inc . Damages,None . VALUE PLACED ON TRACT BY PErITIONER ' S APPRAISERS: TRACT NO . INCIDENTAL DAMAGES VALUE 42 42 $612 . 00 (fee) 000 None (M/R) BOARD OF APPRAISAL COMMISi:JI ONERS FINDINGS : MAP NUMBER OF TRACT : 42 VALUE OF TRACT: TRACT NO . 42 42 INCIDENTAL DAMAGES VALUE $892 . 00 (fee) 000 None (M/R) f l't �We do not concede that the exceptant has any mineral rights of any market value whatsoever in or under this tract, or that the mineral rights in or under this tract add anything to the value of the fee simple estate therein . Ii;,~ ttorney Subscribed to and verified before me this the X:day of September , 1933 . Emma R. Stokes, Notary Public \50 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context harnsberger-c-g.pdf Title A name given to the resource Harnsberger, C. G. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Over Rocky Mtn Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 153 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Harnsberger https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/b907c7936729bf501636c21e6295f79c.pdf 3b106343c5bfca0d8611d65774dd123d PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #76 - Haney , X. K. Number of Acres: Location: Roads: 74 wift Run Gu.p , north side of ~potswood r:::irail . Seven. niles ver Spotsuood ':1rail to J,;Jlkton . S ndy clay of good depth and fertility ; somewhat rocky with Soil: moderate to gentle slopes and northwest, south,1est and sou~heast exposure . r.:ost of tract cleared many yec.rs a.go , The v1ooded area has been cut over repeatedgrazed and cult vated since . ly in the po.st . i:'he wooded area in Rockingham County is estiriated to cut an average of 6 cords of fuelwood, on 11 e.cres,a totul of 66 cords • • History of Tract and condition of timber: Improvements:( S ee reverse s1. d e f or I mprovemen t ) · t 10n · -f' 1n~orma Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 11 $5 . 00 63 40 . 00 55 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: 74 2520 . 00 ,2575 . 00 Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: V~ueofLand: $ 2575 . 00 2415 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 2415 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ 25 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ 50 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $6 £//-,I' Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONZ . 25 . 00 �Dwelling_: Frame, 16x33' , Ell 16x1Sxl6' , 2 story , porch 4x6' , double back porch 6x8', 6 rooms, 2 of which are ceiled and 4 plastered, fair cond i t ion, occupied by o,,ner . Barn: Frame, 30x40xl2' , paper roof, fair condition . Store House· Frame , 20x24xl2', shingle roof, 2 rooms ceiled, fair condition. Granary: Frame, 12xl4xl0', shingle roof, fair condition. Hen house: Frame, 8x8x6', shingle roof, fair condition. Spring house: Frame, 8xl2x6', shing le roof, poor condition. Orchard: 123 tre·es (apples), 15 years old , good condition , 65 apple trees, 15 years old, poor condition, 10 peach treas. Ilfi.PROVENmlf:~S: ,, -. �l • • ) • l l 6 25 . 00 ft no • d: 105 .oo ll it d orth • ... slf' int 1~ .... t oi l : t I ir diti r of, ., n , ! e, lt. ' I -- 0 Gr ( ont COi , f :...50 . 0 r o. r of , f ir oh 1ncl 10 . 0 : ld, 0 • 0 l • 0 ---- d) 13 �Page t 10 Revised report County: District: J76 i Ha.noy, J . K. 83 - .. Hnn e , J • Ve.lu e of land b:y ty:gg s: Rockinghan wtonewall ftockingban Uounty Greene Count l( • (Rockinghao Uounty) Vu.lue srope 11 Fg (H' ay frontage) 20 Pg 40 3 Orchard value value value value Total value Total Total Total Totnl 33. 00 1000 . 00 3 . 00 50 . 00 30 . 00 100 . 00 '?4 of of of of ~l'ota.l Value er acre cream: ~ 1200 . 00 ~?1233 . oo ,. 2233 . 00 land inproveoents oroha-d tinber 1510 . 00 ' 300 . 00 33 . 00 of tract ..,40?6.00 Average value per ac·:e '55 . 08 V!:,lue of land by ( Greene County) Total Value ~ Ilope Pg Fe creo.@ per ncra 3 3 . 00 Value '"9 33 3 30 . 00 30 . 00 ~90 . 00 190 . 00 2 100 . 00 Orchard :rr- .oo ~1089 . 00 Total value of land Total value of orchard Total vo.lue of t raot ·. 1089 . 00 200 . 00 1289 . 00 Average v,,lue per acre Counties Slope Fg (Highway frontage) 14 20 Fg 73 Fe 3 5 Orchard ,\ . t(Y \ll @ @ ~ 115 Total value of land ,:;,3322 . 00 Total value of tract ver'clge v~lue per acre w5365 . 00 ~46 . 65 Total value of inproveoenta 1510 . 00 Total value of orchard 500 . 00 Total value of tiaber 33. 00 ~3 . 00 50 . 00 30 . 00 30 . 00 100 . 00 --- J42 . 00 1000. 00 2190 . 00 90 . 00 -- ,13322 . 00 �It, '- ' ' . ~{f l<J. tNAt- IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGilUA. il ,J in the Clr 's O ce Hockit' ,·h~.m ( 01· 1ty, '·a, STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF rrHE STATE OF VIRGINIA S ~ v. J"OHN K. HANEY and 74 acres of land and improvements in Rockingham County. J. f I n2 ~ rk On motion of J"ohn K. Haney, praying said Court to disa;prove and to decline to accept the finding of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners heretofore appointed by said Court in the above matter, wherein said Board reported under No. 76 of their findings as filed in the Clerk's Office of said Court, that the 74 acres of land with the improvements thereon, found by said Board to be the property of the moveant was valued at $5,065.00. The grounds of said motion are as follows: 1. That the pr ice for said land and improvements is manifestly inadequate as more fully appears from the affidavits attached hereto, which are asked to be read in support of these eAceptions. 2. That the finding of said Board was based upon a mis- take of law as to the nature and effect of the evidence produced before said Board by the above named party. 3. That the finding of said Board is apparently from the statements contained in its report based upon the physical character of the land alone, without taking into consideration, or at least without giving any effect in its final decision to the income producing canacity of the uroperty, all of which will more readily appear from the affidavits attached hereto, which are asked to be read in support of these exceptions. 3 /C �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State or Virginia v. John K. Haney and 74 acres of land and improvements in Rockingham County Affidavit of J. K. Haney, to be read in connection with the motion filed by said J. K. Haney to have the findings of the Board of Anpraisal Commissioners disapproved in connection with its finding No. 76. STATE OF VIRGINIA, CITY OF HARRISONBURG, to-wit: dOhn K. Haney this day personally appeared before me, Pauline M. Andrus, a notary public in and for the city and state aforesaid, in my city aforesaid, and being duly sworn deposes and says that I am the owner of 74 acre tract of land improved by dwelling house, barn, filling st~tion, store house , and other buildings, situate on trn summit of the Blue Ridge Moun ta in, in Rockingham County, Virginia, and reported by the Board of Appraisal Commissioners in the above entitled matter under their finding No. 76; that the tract of land above referred to is situate on either s ide of the Skyland Trail at a point where said Trail is intersected with the Spotswood Trail, and is an unusually valuable tract of land as it is ideally located as a business site; that it is 42 miles from where this land is located to t .1e nearest public highway intersecting said Skyland Trail; that said land is improved by a good six-room dwelling, barn, graj nary, spring house, new filling station and store house, and other out buildings; that said real estate is watered by six never failing springs; that the aforesaid land being con- 311 �demned in this cause is income producing property; that I 11 ve on the property myself and am actively engaged in the mercantile and oil business, and I hereby request that the same be omitted from the contemplated Park Area. The actual value of this property, in my opinion, is Ten Thousand Dollars ($10, 000.00) Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of September, 1932. N.P. _ _ _ _ _ _312- �_J I i IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTYyXIRGINIA state ¢ommission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. John K. Haney and ?4 acres of land and improvements in Rockingham County. an to be read in connection with Affidavit of W. ~ the motion filed by John K. Haney to have the findings of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners disapproved in connection with its finding No. 76. STATE OF VIRGINIA, CITY OF HARRISONBURG, to-wit: w. :F>t1~an this day personally appeared befo~e me Pauline M. Andrus, a notary public in and for the city and state aforesaid, and being duly sworn, deposes and says: that I am a farmer residing one and one-half miles east of the 74 acres of land belonging to John K. Haney sought to be condemned by the Government; that I have been over this land many times, visit it every few days, and taking into consideration t he unu su a l business site a nd location of this property, it is, in my opin~on, worth easily Ten Thousand Dollars $$10,000.00) . Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of September, 1932. G~ Ju . ~ N. P . 3 1'1 �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHM,.. COUNTY , VIRGINIA . The State CoIIL~ission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins , End others, and fifty- two thousan d , five hundred sixty- one a c res ( 52,561) more or less , of land in Rockingham County, Virginia. Filed in the Clerk's Office Rockingham County, Va, V I f 1932 ~~!erk In c ompliance with the order entered in the above entitled cause on October 25, 1932 , and in response thereto , your defendant, John K. Haney, respectfully states that the tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, ownership of which is claimed by him, and with reference to wnich ~e has filed his objections, is the sane tract or parcel which was found by the Appraisal Commissioner s to be land owned by him, b eing tract No . ?6, as shown and delineated on t he mau filed with the report s nd exhibits thereto atta ched made by said Commissioner s . ~~,,Lee Counsel (,,I �STATEMENT OF ) D. W. Earman, J.q. JOHN K. HANEY STATEMENT OF COSTS, POSTAGE, ETC.: 1.51 �SUPLEE ENVELOPE CO., UPPER DARBY. PA. f ,I �THE STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVEIDPMllNT OF VIRGilUA vs. CASSANDRA LAWSON ADKINS, ET A.LS, and 74 acres of land in Rockingham County, Virginia. No. 76 at Law Filed in the Clerk's Office Statement of John K. Haney, ownerRockingham County, Va. (Arbitration) AUGJ-ff 1933 J'41-L;t;t-? Clerk I, John K. Haney, am the sole owner in fee simple of tract of land consisting of 74 aores, more or less, shown on the County Ownership Map filed in the condemnation proceeding as No. 76. This real estate is situate on the summit of the Blue Ridge Mountain in Rockingham. County, Virginia on either side of the Skyland Trail at a point where said Trail intersects the Spot$swood Trail, that it is 42 miles from where this land is located to the nearest public highway {Lee Highway) intersect· said Sky- land Trail, and is, therefore, quite naturally, ideally located as a business site, is well improved, well watered, and according to my esti:ma te the value of said property is. as follows: 6-room frame dwelling Barn 24:x:36 Storehouse 24:x:32 Grainary 12:x:14 New spring house Tool house Woodshed New sheep stable Old sheep stable Toilet building New filling station (actual cost) Filling station site(¼ acre) 210 fruit trees@ $5 eaoh 73 acres of land (68 acres tillible and 5 acres in timber)@ 50 per acre $1,200.00 500.00 750.00 50.00 25.00 5.00 5.00 25.00 5.00 7.50 833.00 2,500.00 1,050.00 3,650.00 $10,605.50 ~ .. ·-..e. 151- �STATE OF VIRGINIA, CITY OF HARRISONBURG, to-wit: This day personally appeared before the undersigned, a notary public 1n and for the city aforesaid, in the State ot Virginia, John K. Haney, who ma.de oath that the facts set out in the foregoing statement are true to the best of his knowledge and belief'. - Given under my hand this 28th day of August, 1933. fl. 0 ~ ~- ~ Notary Public Illy commission expires March 7, 1936. 153 �filed in the Cieri<'! Office Rockingham County, Va. I-D TEY , J ID K. 76 RO CKirG:ru 1.1 COUCrY SEP 'j \933 ~~IP-rk E • .A.RBI.J. :.'.L1 I 1 AGRE .!E1;' S submitte d to the Governo r rising I in or out of Condernn &tion ProceedL ~r's pending in the Circuit Court of' Virginia under e.utLori ty of the Shen ndoah uatione l park Act. :T : EXCEP'l H·-ney , .;ohn K . ORIGII,LL CL LI : V.. ..LUE PL_ C.JD G creage 114 : Value ~?4 , 076 . 00 76 ~ VJJ,U lTT.n. .c...: 1 0 ' .i.CT 1.0 . 76 6 , 825 . 00 : rnc . D 1.L1ages ,:.one T'.iL CT BY P~TL:ION ER ' S APPRJ..ISER.S: V"'i.LUE : 'I F '.i.1RACT: IHCIDE JTAL D -!AGES none 76 TR CT : V..:.LUE .:;i5 ,0 65 . 00 1.51, �The b sic differences bet1.Jeen petitioner re as to the classific ,tion nd this exceptant nd value of the lcnq. , icrpr overnents, 'nd buildings . -lthough 18 believe the values reported by the petitioner , s appraisers uere very liberal mid th- t the findings of the .:.>Oard of _ pprai sal Com"lissioners as to Vc.lues we hu.ve a ccepted a1 d Hill not see.l: <.:4 re subst antially too high , lo. er v luation t 1 n t1 . . eir findi ngs as sho·Fn on the above t bles in this c se • .. s to the classification of tn 1 nd and the other eleaents of value we submit th~t these natters re correctly ""et :'..'orth in the ,Tork Sheet of the Board VJi th reference to this c....,se , ond not as set forth in except nt ' s sta telnents . Vii th the record his .fork oheet is filed nd a copy of this .o:rk copy of the rec.:.:rd tendered herewith , !lld heet is subni tted u i th ddition 1 copies of the ~ork Sheet in this c se 1till ~e furnished if desired • •1 . C. _._rnis~rong , for petitioner . Subscribed to nd verified before_ e t is the L I d.y of September , 1933 . J57 �ILU:-'.!l:Y , C:-OHN K. f-83 GREENE CODlJTY ii Ii R . ...\.RBITru 'l1I N i.GRE~IBNTS subm itted to the Gover nor ... risin g in or out of Condemna tion Proce eding s pendi rg in tne Circu it court of Virgi nia under autho rity of the Shena ndo =~-- tione .l p ... r:( .•ct . F PE'l'IT IOi EXCEPT.\l'"T : ORIGIr,. c H ne y , .John K . .II.!: .t.crec,ge 114 : Value p68G5 . 00 : rnc . nar.1ag es ,1:one V LD""E P~.C D 01? :IL.cr11 BY PETI I :IBR ' S APPR !ISER S : 'I'R CT LO . VU.DE 83 IHCIDEIT' L D,.J LGES 1289 . 00 BOlillD OF __PPR Sl1L co~_.: I~oIO! ~RS FINDI.i::GS ! MAP !W!.ffiER OF Tl ... C1.r: V. UE OF 11RAC 83 1 : IlJCID ELT..U. DAJ ..GJ:!:S 83 ..;il760 o00 r:one Copie s of this statem ent are attac hed to the statem ent of Petit ioner filed in the count y in which the major porti on of the land lies nd in which this excep tant has filed his statem ent . �Virginia, ln the Circuit Uourt of rtockingham ~ounty, I • 'rhe otate ·commission on Conservation and Vevelopment of the ~tate of Virginia, Vs At .Law, .No . l:'etitioner . --- .Land owners in the ~henandoah Nationesl ~ark 04 Hockingham County , va . Defendants . Come now th~ undersigned and shows to the Court ; That whereas a judgement in rem has heretofore been entered in this proceedings condemning to the use of the Petitioner the fee simple estate in the tracts of land as follows; Tract .l.'io . _ of John .K • .tlaney a nd described in the report of the ~oard of Appraisal Commissioners, appointed for rtockingham County,Va. and Awarded to said John K. Haney the sum of$_ _ _ _ __ And whereas, H. K. Shelton and ·r.N. Graves have and hold a lien upon said tract of land, as evidenced by a trust deed executed by the a.aid John K • .tianey and .Lula .1..1.aney his wife , ambc dated the 19th day of .l!'eburary 1932, a~d recorded in one of the a eed Docks of the Circuit ~ourt of rtockingham ~ounty Virginia . for the sum of i350 . 00 and legal interest on same from the said 19th day of .t.!'eb . 1932 . ~~ ~ Wherefore; y our undersigned pray'~ that they be made a party herein under the provision of ~ection 21 of the Public ~ark Condemnation Act. and that an~ order be entered for the distribution of said sum of $350 . 00 and legai interest from the 19th day of .lfeb . 1932, until paid . and That the said sum as aforesaid together with interest as specified, be set aside and allocated to the said H. K.Shelton and T.N.Graves, and said amount be paid to them out of the amount awarded to said John K.rtaney and L~la tlaney his wife, said amount being duducted from said sum allowed or awarded them fo~ their lands in the said ~henandoah ~ational ~ark area . a.~d ~ 1 1 ever pray , .uec . l4th 1933 . Stanardsville, Va . • �LEMUEL F. SMITH RANDOLPH W . BICKERS JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT DEPUTY CLERK B. I. BICKERS CLERK OF GREENE COUNTY COURTS STANARDSVILLE, Mr.J • .H..owitzer , Clerk Circuit ~ourt .tlarrisonb urg,va. VIRGINIA Dec.14th 1933 My Dear Mr.owitze r; I am enclosing you lien notice of li.K.Shelt on and T.N.Grave s ts John K.Haney and Lula naney his wife, in the landed estate 5~ of theirs which lies in the ~ark Area, for which you will please file~ along with the ~ark papers. Thanking you in advance. They did not know the ~o. of tract and the first name of party named in the proceedin gs. �11:i·r OF flTNE'.:rni.J (JIJ n::::H \LF OF J . ml cc 1f.>BRV \T [ON !\. . D 'VE LOP ,~Irr C Ii:i.NEY i n ST T~ COM~ I3SION V• J• L H IEY E . D. ott , Harrisonburg , Va . Jason..:: . Lyon, Harrisonburg, Va . Lee Yat·s, Shenandoah, a .--process directed to GherifJ.' of Pa0 e County . Vernon Fultz , 5wift Run , Va. George i . Shifflett ·ar.,uel t>hifflett vhes Shifflett , Ishnd Ford, a. .un(; ,,.:1rv in l . T • Her ,·ing , i ht on • 1.i . Heatwo l e, .iarris'Jnburg, a. A • .J . 1'illiams /?<. ~~ Delive r processes for ~·. ...1. Heat.v:ole and Jason Lyon to the sheriff, and deliver ot her proce s s to r . Haney , rho wi l have service accer,tecJ , if not, he will bring proc ess h~ck 'rioay morning . Rental value of fillin. stat. io., .p30C .au per ye _r, in d icatini:; a v<:1.lue of at least ,i>300U . CL for the stat ion . / / _,· • 0 0 �, COl VIRGINIA : T Jason • I · 11 OF OCKIN Lyon , 1imt ftttt.ec, Vernon 1• hittlett , Ch ultz , Geor,::) F . shi.i"flett , Shifflett , "arvin Mundy , • He twol • and A. J . 1ll1ams ot Jr itrators , at the Court Hou nia, on n. COUNTY, G EETJ!iG: You re h roby comcand cl to sumnon E. D. Ott, o{-d.~ amu.el • TI on .i: 6 1n the o to appear befcre ~e Boord of H ckin y , the 1gth day of ,lebr •, to tes t1:!'y and truth to • T. Herring, am County , Vir- ry • 1054 , at ll o ' clock y on bohal r of the Defendant demna tion prooe di ngs ot ,:;)tate Co.rom.L.. .s1on on Consorva- ti n and Development And ot the ,tate of Virginia v . J . K. H.. ey. ve then and th ·r Lr lIT.N 1 s as 01 rk of t' at the Court 1934, 1n th this \1r1t . mm, :F, I hereunto s t my hand , Ciroui t Court of ock1nghnm County, Virginia, ouse thox-eoi' , this , th 14th day at ebrw ry, 158th year o 15 �\\ \ IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGH..fu.1: COUNTY, VIRGINIA. STATE COMTuIISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF VIRGINIA v. Petitioner At Law No. 1829 CASSANDRA LAWSON ATKINS AND OTHERS On this U Defendants day of July, 1935, came John K. Haney and on his motion leave is given him to file his application for disbursement of the sum of Forty-Nine Hundred Sixty-five Dollars ($4965.00), the amount of the award fixed by the Arbitration Board set out in the judgment of condemnation of Tract N0. 76 and heretofore paid into Court. And likewise came Elizabeth Thompson, D. W. Earman , The Dill Company, a corporation, C. W. Beggs Sons & Company, Inc., The Weyers Cave Milling Company, a corporation, and the State Commisby counsel, who ask permission to file their answer to said ~pplication sion on Conservation and Development,Awhich is accordingly done; And it appears to the Court that John K. Haney is vested with a superior or better right of claim or title in and to said tract of land No. 76 - than any other person or persons; that the taxes on said Tract No. 76 have been paid; ~nd that the interest of said John K. Haney in said tract of land is subject to the liens of a Vcertain deed of trust in favor of Elizabeth Thompson and D. W. Earman , they being the owners and holders of bonds for the sum of Eight Hundred Two Dollars ( $802 . 00) , and four certain judgments, one in favor of The Dill Company, a corporation, amounting to $13 .44, one in favor of C. W. Beggs & Sons Company, Inc., amounting to $61 .65, one in favor of Weyers Cave Milling Company, a corporation, amounting to $97 .75, and the other in favor of State Commission on Conservation and Development of Virginia amounting to $10 .50. Upon consideration whereof it is considered and ordered by the Court that said sum of Forty-Nine Hundred Sixty-five Dollars ~4965) paid into Court by petitioner as just compensation for �Tract No. 76 be disburse d as follows: 1. To Elizabe th Thompson Two Hundred Twenty- nine Dollars ($ 229.00), $200.00 being princip al amount of bond held by her, and $ 29.00 being interes t on said bond from February 20, 1933 to July 20, 1935; 2. To D. W. Earman Five Hundred Seventy -three Dollars ($573.00 ), $500.00 being princi~ al amount of bond held by him, and $72.50 being interest from February 20, 1933 to July 20, 1935, and 50¢ being Clerk's fee for releasin g deed of trust lien securing the payment of said bonds; 3. To D. W. Earman, Attorney for The Dill Company, a corporat ion, the sum of Thirteen Dollars and Forty-fo ur Cents ($13.44) , $8.25 being the princip al amount of said judgmen t, $1.44 being interes t on the princip al amount from Augu st 12, 1932 to July 12, 1935, and $3.75 being costs of said judgmen t; 4. To D. W. Earman, Attorney for C. W. Beggs Sons & Company, a corpora tion, the sum of Sixty-on e Dollars and Sixtybeing princi~ al amount of said judgmen t and $12.17 five Cents ($61.65) , ~49.48~ being interes t on said princip al amount from Septemb er 3, 1932 to July 3, 1935, and $3.75 being the costs of said judgmen t; 5. To D. W. Earman, Attorney for the Weyers Cave Milling Company, a corpora tion, Ninety-s even Dollars and Seventy -five Cents ($97.75) , $89.51 being the princip al amount of said judgmen t, $4.49 being interest on said princip al amount fro m August 23, 1934 to June 24, 1935, and $3.75 being costs of said judgmen t; 6. To the State Commiss ion on Conserv ation and Develop - ment the sum of Seventee n Hundred Ten Dollars and Fifty Cents ($1710.5 0), of which said sum $10.50 is the amount of the judgmen t in favor of it a gainst said John K. Haney for costs in action of unlawfu l detaine r, and the balance , $1700.00 , is the amount heretofore advanced the said Haney for right of way hhrough said tract of land No. 76, more particu larly describe d in this proceed ing; 7. The balance of said award, Twenty-t wo Hundred Seventy - Nine Dollars and Sixty-s ix Cents ($ 2279.66) to be paid to John T. �Harris and D. W. Earman, Attorneys for the said John K. Haney. And the Clerk of this Court is directed to transmit acertified copy of this order to the Treasurer of Virginia, who shall disburse this swn of Forty-nine Hundred Sixty-five Dollars ($4965) as above set out, taking receipts from the said Elizabeth Thompson, D. W. Earman, D. W. Earman, Attorney for The Dill Company, a corporation, C. W. Beggs Sons & Company, a corporation, Weyers Cave Milling Company, a corporation, The State Commission on Conservation and Development of Virginia, and John T. Harris and D. W. Earman, Attorneys for John K. Haney, for the amounts paid them, and certify such payment to the Clerk of this Court for appropriate entry thereof as required by Enter : J +aw. -- ~-"A &:~ Judge Attorneys for State Coill!'1.issi Cons erva ti on & Development State of Virginia. 10 �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT 0F ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, . VIRGINIA . STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION .AND DEVELOPMENT OF VIRGINIA v. Petitioner At Law No . 1829 CASSANDRA LAWSON .ATKINS .AND OTHERS Defendants The joint and separate answers of Elizabeth Thompson , D. W. Earman , The Dill Company , a corporation, and C. W. Beggs & Sons Company, a corporation , The Weyers Cave Milling Company, and the State Commission on Conservation and Development of Virginia, to a petition filed in this cause by John K. Haney. These respondents for answer to said petition, or to so much thereof as they are advised it is material for them to answer, answer and say: That it is true that petitioner conveyed the real estate more fully set out in said petition situate on the Blue Ridge Mohntain in Rockingham County, Virginia , known and designated on tl:Bmap of the Park Lands as Tract No . 76 to D. W. Earman, Trustee, by deed of trust bearing date February 20 , 1932 to secure Elizabeth Thompson in the payment of Two Hundred Dollars ($200 . 00) with interest from February 20 , 1933 , and to secure D. W. Earman in the payment of Five Hundred Dollars ($500 . oo) with interest from February 20, 1933 . And it is also true that there are four judgments against petitioner , one in favor of The Dill Company , a corporation, amounting to $13 . 44, one in favor of C. W. Be ggs & Sons Company, a corporation, amounting to $61 . 65 , one in favor of the Weyers Cave Milling Company, a corporation, amounting to $97 . 75, and another in favor of State Commission on Conservation and Development amounting to $10 . 50 . Your respondents join in the prayer of said petition for 11 �the distribution of said fund as therein set out; and they will ever pray, etc . C.IIJ.~ ~ - " ~ pl~ L'~~~ 4-,, .. #-=L Attorneys for State on Conservation & D evelopme of the State of Virginia . 12... �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHA.11 COUNTY, VIRGINIA. STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOP:MENT OF VIRGINIA v. Petitione r At Law No. 1829 CASSANDRA LAWSON ATKINS AND OTHERS Defendant s TO TEE HON. H. W. BERTRAM, JUDGE OF SAID COURT: Your petitione r, John K. Haney, respectfu lly represent s: That a judgment in rem has heretofore been entered in this proceedin g condemnin g to the Use of petitione r the fee simple estate in a certain tract of land formerly the property of your petitione r, situate in the Blue Ridge Mountain in the eastern portion of Stonewall District, Rockin gham County, Virginia, which tract is described in the report of the Board of Appraisal Commissioner s appointed herein and shown, numbered, and delineate d on the County Ownership Map filed herewith as Tract No. 76 at the price of Forty-nin e Hundred Sixty-fiv e Dollars ($4965.00 ), less, however, the aum of Seventeen Hundred Dollars ( $1700.00) to be paid the State Commissio n on Conservat ion and Developme nt of Virginia, which said amount said Commissio n has heretofor e aa- vanced the said Haney for right of way through said tract of land. Your petitione r further shows to the Court that all taxes on said property have been paid to and including the year 193a, and he he rewith files certifica tes to that effect from J. -F. Greene ~ ~ County, Vir ginia, and B-•. X:~..:. '.. of Treasurer , . Early,, Greene County, which ~~ of Court Circuit the of Clerk 'Bickers, certifica tes are marked "Ex. Certi f icate No. One" and "Ex. Certificate No. Two, 0 respectiv ely, and that the same are prayed to be read as a part hereof. Your petitione r further shows to the Court that there are five l i ens on this prope r ty, one dee d of trust li en a nd four judgments: 1. Deed of trust executed by John K. Haney and Lula 13 �A. Haney dated Febru ary 20, 1932 to D. W. Earma n, Truste e, record ed in the Clerk 's Office of Rockin gham County , Virgi nia in Deed Book 151, page 352 securi ng the payme nt of two Homes tead Waive r bonds bearin g date Febru ary 20, 1932, one in the sum of Two Hundr ed Dollars ($200 . 00 due and payab le one year after date, and now held and owned by Elizab eth Thomp son, and the other bond in the sum of , Five Hundr ed Dolla rs ($500 . 00) due and payab le two years after date st ane now held and owned by D. W. Earma n, on which said bonds intere is due from Febru ary 20, 1933 . The origin al deed of trust is here- with filed marked "Ex . Deed of Trust" and is prayed to be read as a part hereo f . 2. Judgm ent in favor of The Dill Company, a corpo ra- tion, again st J . K. Haney for the sum of Eight Dolla rs and Twent yfive Cents ($8.25 ), with intere st from ugust 12, 1932 plus Three Dolla rs and Seven ty-fiv e Cents ($3 . 75) costs, an abstra ct of which said judgm ent is herew ith filed marke d "Ex . Judgm ent No . One" and is prayed to be read as a part hereo f . 3. Judgm ent in favor of C. W. Beggs Sons & Company, a corpo ration , again st J . K. Haney for the sum of Forty- Nine Dollars and Forty -eight Cents ($49 . 48), with intere st from Septem ber 3, 1933, plus Three Dolla rs and Seven ty-fiv e Cents ($3 . 75) cost~, an abstra ct of which said judgm ent is herew ith filed marke d "Ex . Judgm ent No . Two" and is prqyed to be read as a part hereo f . 4 . Judgm ent in favor of Ne yers . Cave },:illin g Company, a corpo ration , again st J . K. Haney for the sum of Eighty -nine Do llars and Fifty- one Cents ($89 . 51) with intere st· from Augus t 25, 1934, plus $3 . 75 costs, an abstra ct of which said judgm ent is herewith filed marked nEx . Judgm ent No . Three" and is prayed to be read as a part hereo f. 5 . Judgm ent in favor of the State Comm ission on Conse rvatio n and Develo pment of the State of Virgin ia for the sum of Ten Dolla rs and Fifty Cents ($10 . 50), which said judgm ent �represents costs against the said Haney in action of unlawful detainer brought by the State Commission on Conservation and Development. An abstract of said judgment is herewith filed marked "Ex. Judgment No. Four" and is prayed to be read as a part hereof. That no other person or persons than your petitioner and Elizabeth Thompson, D. W. Earman, The Dill Company, Inc ., C. W. Beggs Sons & Company, Inc ., Weyers Cave Milling Company, Inc., and the State Commission on Conservation and Development are entitled to share in said award . Whe.re«J(Bre , your pet it loner prays that he may be made a party herein and allowed to file his petition in these proceedings; that the said Elizabeth Thompson, D. W. Earman, The Dill Company, Inc., c. W. Beggs Sons & Company, Inc., Weyers Cave Milling Company, Inc ., and the State Commission on Conservation and Development may be made parties defendant to this petition and be required to answer the same, answer under oath being waived; that an order may be entered in this proceeding for the distribution of said award, and that your petitioner may have such other and further relief as the nature of his case may require. STATE OF VIRGINIA, CITY OF HARRIS011BURG, to-wit: This day John K. Haney , the petitioner in the above entitled matter , personally appeared before me, Pauline M. Andrus, a notary public in and for the city and state s foresaid, in my city aforesaid , and being duly affirmed, deposes and says: That I am the petitioner in the above entitled matter . I am acquainted with the contents of the above petition, and do hereby state that the matters of fact therein set forth are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Subscribed and sworn to before .~ this_ 20th d~ of July, 1935. J ~ /k; . ~, ·efl/JJ. 15 �Oire.en.e Qtnunty, lllirginin OFFICE OF COUNTY TREASURER COURTHOUSE STANARDSVILLE. VIRGINIA J . F . EARLY TREASURER Hon . H. W. Bertram , Judge of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Harrisonburg , Va . Dear Judge : This is to certify that all taxes on REAL ESTAT E in Greene County , Virginia , that are assessed in the name of John K Haney , are paid in ful 1 at tbe County J.'reasu:rer ' s Offi ce . Given under my band th is :i::7~ey of June I934 . Q, ,1:. (/ 8,4? , "rX-W _Treasurer of Greene uounty Va . ~ Mo ./ •, /f,,J �LEMUEL F. SMITH RANDOLPH W . BICKERS JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT DEPUTY CLERK B. I. BICKERS CLERK OF GREENE COUNTY COURTS STANARDSVILLE, VIRGINIA rlon . rt . 11 . B~rtram , Judge Circuit ~ourt of Hockingham County Va • 'l' o ..ay lJear ,Judge ; This is to certify that all of John K. Haney' land tnat lies in the ~henandoah ~ational ~ark, which lies on top of ~lue rlidke Mount~ lies in both count r,,t that is Greene and ~ockingham is assessed in Greene o unty, and 1••r .Haney pPj"a e 11 his land taxes in Grel.,ne c aunty , and there are xx no delinquent taxes on same . v June 27th 1934 . ,l'{o, Z.. ,, /7 �THIS DEED made this 20th d~y of February, 1932, by and between .John K. Haney and Lula A. Haney, his wife, parties of the first part, and D. '1'/. Turman, Trustee, party of the second part, WI T N E S S E T H That for and in consideration of the sum of One Dollar (il} cash in hand paid by the party of the second part to the parties of the first part, the receipt whereof iF ~ereby acknowledged , Lnd upon the trust hereinafter declared, they, the said parties of the first part, do hereby grant and convey with covenant of general arranty unto the said D. W. Earman, Trustee, party of the second art, all that certain tract or parcel of land together with the improvements thereon and appurtenances thereunto belonging, ituate in Rockingham and Greene Counties, Virginia, adjoining the ands of .J. A. Ifuney, T. L. Dean, Q. E. Smith, and others, and more articula:r·ly described as follows : "Beginning in the middle of the urnpike road, corner with said .James A. Haney, thence with an ld road to :Je used by said .James A. Haney and .John K. Haney, N 6½ E 2 2/25 poles, N 19 E 12 2/5 poles, N 5 E 10 4/5 poles, IT 4 E 8 2/5 poles, N 2 W 6 poles, N 35½ W 14 poles, N l?½ W 4 4/5 oles, a c~estnut oak, thence leaving said road N 46½ E 48 l?/25 oles to a maple near a spring, thence N 6 W 3 ?/ 25 poles to a ahogany and two gums, thence N 46 W 25 poles to a stake at said oad, thence with said road N 64½ E 12 14/25 poles, N 65 E 8 8/25 oles,~ 6? 3/4 E 28 4/5 poles to a large rock at the end of said ·oad, thence N 20½ W 6?½ poles to a horn beam, thence N l½ E 25i oles to five chestnuts in Knighten's line, thence wit~ old line o the beginning, containing 115 acres, more or less . There is xcepted from this conveyance, however, about one - eighth of an ere of land on the north side of the pike, bounded as follows : eginning at a manle in the north side of said road, thence N 40 2 poles to a stake, thence S 56 E 10 poles to a stake in road 6 links from a locust, thence with said road to the pike, thence cc~ ~£ c -1::, or 11r a J'-,- EK.. No, / ~, 18 �with said road to the beginning ." This is a part of the same real estate conveyed to James A. Haney and John K. Haney by Mary E. Haney, and others, by deed bearing date May 26 , 1906, of record in the clerk ' s office of Green County , Virginia in Deed Book 14 , page 434 , said real estate being the larger portion of the same lreal estate in which James A. Haney conveyed to John K. Haney, all his right, title, interest, and equity by deed bearing date II Seutember 19, 1908 and recorded in the clerk's office of Green County, Virginia in Deed Book 17 , page 39 . There is also ex- II cepted and not included in this conveyance 8. 26 acres of land conveyed by tl1ese gran tors to the State Commission on Conserva tion and Development of the State of Virginia , by deed bearing date June 10 , 1931, of record in the clerk's office of Roc~ingham County , Virginia in Deed Book 150, page 66, less also about lone - eighth of an acre conveyed to Margaret E. l~ndy located on the west side of the Spotswood Trail . IN TRUST HEV:t;RTHELESS to secure the payment of SEVEN JUNDRED DOLLARS ( i?o0 . 00) principal , and all interest hereafter ' ccruing on same , which .urinciual sum is evidenced by two Home ~ ,r tead Waiver bonds of even date herewith executed by John K. Haney l~nd Lula A. Haney, due and payable to Bearer, OI oii:3.eI, one in I he sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200 . 00) due in one year, and the ther in the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500 . 00) due in two ears, said bonds bearing interest from date at six per cent, payble semi~ l-ly 1 ~ t>-.. ~ '7 ti. 7',,__;{j;::, ~ Insurance required $1200 . 00 It is understood and agreed between the :i;arties hereto hat if there shall be any default in the payment of said bonds, r either of them, or in the payment of interest thereon when due, r failure to keep the property insured, then the total debt herein ecured shall become due and payable and the Trustee herein upon he request of the holders of said bonds, or either of them, so to o do , shall proceed to execute this Trust in accordance with ! 19 �Section 516? of the Code of Virginia, 1919 Edition, and the Acts amendatory thereto. It is understood and agreed also between the parties hereto that in the event eht Trustee herein advertises for sale the property herein conveyed agreeable to the terms hereof and payment or assignment is made of the indebtedness herein secured on or before the day of sale, or the Trustee directed not to make such sale, and the sale is not made, then there shall be paid to the said Trustee for his services as aforesaid a sum equivalent to two per cent of the indebtedness owing, unpaid and secured hereunder at the ti e he advertises the said property for sale. Witness the following signatures and seals. ~~ ~ (SEAL) c~(SEAL) VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM, to-wit: I, and for the county and state afores id, whose commission expires ·/41 f ~ /-,ft , do certify that Jel>" K 1Lula ~ ; , , ; = : ~ h o s e name~ ~ llt,Jiey a11d- signed to the foregoing !writing bearing date February 20, 1932, ~ acknowledged the same efore me in my said county. Given under my hand this l.z.._ day of February, 1932. N.P. �VIRGINIA, City of Harrisonburg, to-wit: I, Pauline M. Andrus, a notqry public in and for the cit y a nd state a f'oresa id, whose commission expires March 8, 1932, do certify that .John Ji..• Haney, vrhose name is signed to the foregoin g writing b earing date February 20, 1932, has acknowledged the same before me in. my said city. Given under my hand this 20th day of February, 1932. '71RG!NIA: In the Cl rk's Offlc of t1rn Circuit r<Jmw< of l (: : ~v~, ~ 11 i : u d~od of t c' ".I.the C;f L " ~J - . " --' 9 ~X1 1,%;:~:~'f/~~~ 111:_¢~!M_ 0 -··· --·---..~~ -······ / ......... Cler �JOH!1T K HANEY & VIFE TO) "J ~'l EAmlAN TRUSTEE DEED OF TRUST f .t-,L Fee~$ :Z tJ Trans fer $--L- Total $#,..t . Tax$_____ ( I C.'tld D. ,,-_ '0[PLJ·:H E.\H'.'L \.X 11.->.KL{l S <l :'\I 11 · U G ,"\'. \_ COMMONWEALTH·s ATTORNEY �STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION & DEVELOFMl!NT OF VIRGINL vs. CASSANDRA LAWSON ADKINS, et als and ?4 acres more or less of land in Rockingham County Virginia No. 76 at Law Statement of John K. Haney LA,\T Ol'FIGES OF D. WAMPLER EARMA~ HARRISONBURG ,VA. COMMONWEALTH 'S ATTORNEY �D. W.AMPLER EAR...-Yfi\.N H..-\ lUU S ONBt:HG,Y-i\. . COMMONWEALTH 'S ATTO RN EY August 28, 1933 Hon. Phillip Williams, Chairman Land Tract Board of Arbitratio n Wincheste r, Virginia Dear Sir: This is to advise you that D. w. Farman is my attorney in the matter of the condemnat ion of 73 aores of land, No. 76 at law, in the matter of the State Commission of Conservat ion and Development of the State of Virginia against 7B aores of land situate in Rockingham County, Virginia . Very truly yours, 15<!> �~. , r - . . STA'l'E OF VIRGI NIA) COUN'l'Y OF W RREN ) ss Personally appeared before me the undersigned Notary Public in my said State and County, E. K. Stokes, who being duly sworn, deposed and said that she is an employee of the State Commission on Conservation and Development in immediate charge of the records of the Shen4ndoah National Park Division thereof having to do with c laims of the Commission for distributive shares of condemnation awards in the Shenandoah National Park condemnation pt'oceedings pending in the Circuit Courts of Virgi nia, by rea son of contracts and agreements entered into with the owners of lands sought to be condemned in these proceedings, and that the within claim is _just a n~ - correct. Given under my ha nd t his 2nd • . iOhfiYPUGU(, My Comin,ss - f: xpircs Sep. 8, 1934 I , \ -~ -.... ··: ,. .. - .. . - 1" ...... , r'.; ;- ·,··t ~ • ~ J~ •. ) ~ �l,, ..., , ,, 0 ~- '·.,. NOTE-This need not be filed until the record discloses that the awards have been paid into thl'J!Jiod{ o ,Courts. ~,/ 4 · · Virginia: In the Circuit Court of Rockingha m County r ~Cl The State Commissio n on Conservati on and Devel'opme nt of the State of Virginia Petitioner. V. At Law No. 1829 Cassandrsa Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Th'Ousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-'0ne (52,561) Acre·s of land, more or less Defendant s. Comes now the undersigne d and shows to the Court: That a judgment in rem has heretofor,e been entered in this proceeding condemnin g to the use ,o f the Petitioner the fee simple estate in the tra,c t(s) of land numbered as follio-w s: Tra.ct No ...7JL ............ : Trad No .................. ... : Trad No ..................... ; and des cribed in the report of the BoaTd of Appraisal Commissio ners •a ppointed therein and shO'wn, numbered, and delineated on the County 0wne,rship Map filed therewith, upon payment into the -c ustody of the 0o,urt orf the sum (s) set •o ut in the &aid judgment •a s constitutin g the award(s) therefor, as follows: Award on Trad No ..7..6......... $.49.65... 0Q on Tract No .............. . 1 $ ................ ; on Tract No ............... $ ................ ; That the report of the said Board sets forth that the foUowing named persons claim, or appear to 'have a ·c laim to an inteirest in the said tract(s) •o f land o-r in the p:r:o·c eeds arising fr.om the condemnat ion there-of; "iJ . K . HANEY That the Petitioner has paid into the custody of the Court the sa:id sum (s) set out in said judgment as constitutin g the award (s) of the fee simple estate in the s aid tract(s) of land; T'h at your undeT'signed, on the date of the said judgment in rem condemnin g the said tract (s) ·o f l•a nd, ·o wned or was (were) entitled to the following interest in the said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the cond·e mnation there-o f:1 Under the terms of a duly recorded contract and deed conveying the Sky ine roadbed ru ning through this tract, the owner granted and conzeyed to the un ersigned, the right to receive from said proceeds, the sum of tl?l7 .00 That no otJheT' person or persons than the undersigne d are ,e ntitled to share in the distribution •o f the said award(s) e~ce·p t the f!oll:owing named persons whose interest in said tr.act(s) or in the pro·c eeds arising fr.om the c,o ndemnation thereiof -o n the date of entry of s•a id judgment wa-s a,s follows: The above mentioned claimant to the extent that he may be able to establish his claim . . Wherefore , your undersigne d pray (s) that fh,e---{4Ji.e-~)--be-i:Wa4e--&--pa-11;-y-~ies-)- b:ePetR-unt;l'er ~ p10visiufl'S-"'O'f-Seet+o-n-&-of-the--Pnblie Park Condemna tion A'Ct·, --and-tJlratj- an order be entered. for the distribution of sai-d sum (s) set forth in said judgment in rem as con·s tituting the award (s) for the f.ee simple estate in the said tract(s) condemned as aforesaid, and for Ale p•a yment to the undersigne d of the said award (s) or of as much there·o f as the Oourt may frnd that the undersigne d i's (a:re) entiUed to receive, and whiic'h the undersigne d aver(s) is as f.ollo-ws: Tract No ..7........ '. .... $.l7.l7..,.Q.Q Tract No ................. $ ................ : Tract No ................ . $ ................ ; The undersigne d furbher aver(s) that: (Le,a ve thi·s space bl,ank unless there is some other pertinent matter to be brought e'spedaHy to the attenti'on of the court) NAME , P. 0. ADDRESS ·--~.zz.· r · ~4/4 ············································································ STATE COM! IS,cION ON CONSERV.fTIO:N AtTD . EVELOPt. }IT I :· ~:·:· .: · . :~:· :· ~~:~dt.mz·::·::::: COUNSEL -- --- ------------ -- ------ ----- ---- --- ----- ------- ---- -.................. ----·--- f.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::....::..... /J Jj .... ---- .. ------- ---- ---- -.. -- .. -- ---- -- . --. ---- .... -................... -----... -. ---------- NO'DE-A supply of tihis blank has been placed in the Clerk's office for the convenience of interested parties. No one is required to use this form, as the f·o rm is not prescribed ,b y law, and claimants can either cihange or modify it as they -deem necessary, or present their motions in any f,orm they may d-e sire which meets with the approval of the Court. This 1b lank form may not and probaibly will not cover all -cases. It has been printed merely as a suggestion of a form of a motion which may be used, subject to the approval of the court in each case. ,,q �NoTE--This need not be filed until the record discloses that the awards have been paid into the custody of the Courts. Virginia : In the Circuit Court of Rockingham County The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia .. PETITIONER. V. At Law No. 1829 Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of land, more or less . . . . DEFENDANTS. Comes now the undersigned and shows to the Court: That a judgment in rem has heretofore been entered in this proceeding condemning to the use of the Petitioner the fee simple estate in the tract(s) of land numbered as follows : Tract No. _rzfi. ________ ; Tract No. _______ _____ : Tract No. ____________ ; and described in the report of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners appointed herein and shown, numbered, and delineated on the County Ownership Map filed therewith, upon payment into the custody of the Court of the sum(s) set out in the said judgment as constituting the award(s) therefor, as follows: Award on Tract No. _________ _ $----------; on Tract No. ______ ______ $- ---------; on Tra~t No. ------------ $----------; That the report of the said Board 'sets forth that the following named persons claim, or appear to have a claim to an interest in the said tract(s) of land or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof; J . K. Haney That the Petitioner has paid into the custody of the Court the said sum(s) set out in said judgment as constituting the award(s) for the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) of land; That your undersigned, on the date of the said judgment in rem condemning the said tract(s) of land, owned or was (were) entitled to the following interest in the said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof:- By reason of contribution pledge, obligating the owner, J . K. Haney, to give 15 acres of his land within the P~rk Area to the Park Project o That no other person or persons than the undersigned are entitled to sh are in the distribution of the said award(s) except the following named persons whose interest in said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof on the date of entry of said judgment was as follows: Wherefore, your undersigned pray(s) that [he (they) be made a party (parties) herein under the provisions of Section 21 of the Public Park Condemnation Act, and that] an order be entered for the distribution of said sum(s) set forth in said judgment in rem as constituting the award(s) for the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) condemned as aforesaid, and for the payment to the undersigned of the said award(s) or of as much thereof as the Court may find that the undersigned is (are) entitled to receive, and which the undersigned aver(s) is as follows: Tract No. __7§ _______ $_~_5_._QQ__ ; Tract No. _____ _______ $ ____ ______ : Tract No. ____________ $ __________ ; The undersigned further aver(s) that : (Leave this space blank unless there is some other pertinent matter to be brought specially to the attention of the court) NAME P. 0. ADDRESS NOTE--A supply of this blank form has been placed in the Clerk's office for the convenience of interested parties. No one is required to use this form, as the form is not prescribed by law, and claimants can either change or modify it as they deem necessary, or present their motions in any form they may desire which meets with the approval of the Court. This blank form may not and probably will not cover all cases. It has been printed merely as a suggestion of a form of a motion which may be used, subject to the approval of the court in each case. �STA'l'E OF VIRGINIA ) SS COUNTY OF WARREN ) Personall y appe~red before me the undersigne d Notary Public in my said State and County, E. K. Stokes, who being duly sworn, deposed and said that she is an employee of the . . State Commissio n on Conservat ion and Developme nt in immediate charge of the records of the Shenandoa h N~tional Park Division thereof having to do with claims of the Commissio n for distributive shares of condemnat ion awards in the Shenandoa h Nat_j_onal Park conde:nna tion proceeding s pending in the Circuit Courts of Virginia, by reason of contracts and agreement s entered into with the owners of lands sought to be condemned in these proceedin gs, and that the within claim is just and correct. Witness my signature this 8th ~~~_ NOTARY PUBLIC Notary Public M~ Commission Expires Sep, 8, 1934 �I • " , ff/ / . �Ci cuit Court ot the Cowity of R~ckingham on Friday , the 10th day or May, in the year ot' our Lord, ninetee n hundre d and thirty -five. Presen ts Hon . H. w. ilertrom , Judge. Pet tioner The State Co~miss1on on Conser vation and D,3velopU1ent or the State ot Virgin ia v. Petitio n Oerendants John K. H ney and Lula A. Baney This day ca.me . again the partie s by their uttorne ys_, and tile jury 1mpau;e lled and swo1"n tor the t1"ial of 1~11 case came puraua ht to adjourn,nent, and having ieard all the eviden ce, the plaint iff ther·eup on ·noved the Court to str1ke out all <Jf the ..w1denc e presen ted in f avor or the claim or the de!'end ants aa set out i.u. i;ha bill of p::i.rticu l.'J.rs :!.no er-oss clai:n f' iled herein , except so much or the ... vldenc a as relate s to Jam.ages sustatn ed ,by the defend ants in the remova l and destru ction at the hen house as set out :tn said bill or partic ulars and cross claim, and as to said damages the plaint iff admits liabil ity, an.a s, which 111ot1on the Court ustRin /the jut-ors we1·& th.,n sent to the1i- room to 0onsid er their verdic t, and atter some time they came again tnto co'\.U't and returne d the follow ing verdio tt "We, the jury~ on the issues joined , ttnd that t he State Com- m:ss1on ,::,n Conser vation and Developm nt do recove r ot J. K. ~•ney and Lula A. Haney the sum or $2000.0 0 cla1me d tn its petitio n, from which sum sh~li be deduct ed the sum of $283.0 0, the ascerta ined value or the s.26 acres of land include d in the Skylin e Dr1 ve Highwa y, and a furthe r c-r~dit r)f $17. 00 dam- ages caused by the ta1lur e of the State Cor,m1ss1on on Conser - vation and Development to restore the hen house as set out in defend ant• a claim of set ott. J. Fillmo re Crawfo rd, forema n." Whereupon, the defend ant, J'ohn K. Baney, by his attorne y, moved to set aside the verdic t ot the jury and to grant defend ants a new trial on th& follow ing severa l grol.lnd si (1) Becaus e the erdict is contra ry to the law and the eviden ce. �(2) Because the court declined tQ permit proper evidence ot- tered by detendants and excluded the sam$ from the juey, and permitted t.he introduction of i1prQper evidence orrered by the petitioner, and over the obJect1on ot defendants, (3) Be oa,•se th~ coul"t refused propel" inatruotions otteret by the d~tendants, and grant ed improper instructions offered by petitioner, and improperly modified i~struetiona tendered by defendants. (4) Be oaus the court• upon the .mGtion ot de- tendants. tleel1ned at the end of' the intr0cduct1on ot pet1 tionert s to euttain a mot1on to strike the testim ny ot pe• ev1dence t1t1oner. (5) Becaus the Oourt mproperly ov .rruled the demurrer or o fli1nd~nts to the petition d1ct ot the jt.n•y :La excesai:ve. (e} Becauso the ver ... Wh reupon, 1t is considered. by the c urt thnt th~ ~M)t ion of defendants be den1 d• and. 1 t is acco ·<.ti ngly eone1dered by tt.e court, and the court doth ad• judge 1 that the petitioner, the State Coromtasion on Conse-rva- tion t:'.nd Developme t, do recover out of the cause, and under the control or the f'W'ld to tht credit or the court~ and ~tand.1ng i n the name ot John l. R&Jley r.1 nd wife, and that there ehall be pa id to the said Commission tlnom the said fund, the sum ot One Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ( 1 1 700.00), th amount round by the verdict ot the .J ury in this proceeding, to which action ot the court in 09'erruling said motion and entering Judgment herein, the defendants, by counsel, excepted, Defendants ex-- pressing an intention to apply fo~ a •~it ot error to the Su- preme Court ot Appeals of V1rgin1a to the Judgment ot the court, the execution or tbis judgment is stayed tor the period of 60 days to enable the defendants to apply tor the satd writ ot error. The fund ($4 1 965.00) being now tn the hands or the court to the credit of John K4 H.ney 1n this cause, no suspending bond 1a required. A COPY Atteste, _____________ Clerk. �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY , VIRGINIA . The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Petitioner #1829 at Law Cassandra Lawson Atkins , et al , and fifty-two thousand five hundred and sixtyone (52 , 561) acres of land , more or less , in Rockingham County, Virginia In Re : Defendants Distribution of proceeds of Condemnation of Tract #76 . This proceeding came on this day to be heard upon all the papers formerly read and filed and proceedings heretofore had and upon the petition of the petltioner claiming a portion of the proceeds of condemnation for said Tract No . 76, filed herein on the 22d day of March, 1935, and . upon the deed from John K. Haney and wife to the petitioner, filed as an exhibit with said petition; and upon the demurrer in writing of John K. Haney , a party hereto , this day filed by leave of Court, and was argued by counsel: And upon consideratio n whereof the Court doth overrule and dismiss said demurrer , to which action of the Court said John K. Haney, by counsel, excepted; and upon the motion of said petitioner by counsel, said John K. Haney is required to file herein , not later than May 1 , 1935, his grounds of defense to the plaintiff ' s petition; and it being suggested by counsel for said Haney that one of his defenses would be a claim for damages suffered by reason of the failure of the petitioner to perform obligations imposed by said deed , it is ordered that said John K. Haney do file an itemized statement of the damages suffered or claimed to have been suffered by him by reason thereof . And it appearing that said defendant, John K. Haney, desires a trial by jury of the issues involved, it is ordered that this case be continued and set for trial on May 8th, 1935, at 10: 00 o ' clock, a . m. �~ '-'-~ ~ ~· ..,. _;;i.---r.'-.. • ~~ 1/l/"2 ......~ ~c.. ~ '{ ,t;,,l ii of b{_u, ~ r-.. I~~ ~ ~ ¢(),,.~f 30 �.. 31 �IN THE CIBCUIT COURI' OF ROCKINGHAM C 01JNTY, VIJUINIA . State Commission on Conserv ation and Developm ent •••••••• •••••••• •• Petition er v. ) Demurre r aoijn K. Haney and Lula .'I.. Haney, his wife••• •••••••• •••••••• •••••• Defenda nts Defenda nts Crave oyer of the deed mentione d in petition of the State Commiss ion on Conserv ation and ~evelopm ent, and the same betng treated as read, the defenda nts demur to the alleged claim of petition er on the followin g several g rounds: (1) Because the petition er does not allege performa nce by it of the covenan ts and agreeme nts containe d in the said deed, to be kept, done and perform ed, and does not explain or excuse the said failure to so set forth and perform the said agreeme nts by the said petition er solemnly agreed to be kept, done and performe d by it. (2} Because the said petition er does not set forth any proper cause of action for the said $2,000.0 0 alleged by petition er to be due from the said defenda nts. (3} Because the petition er has mistaken the form of action, that is to say, the petition er is without authorit y to proceed to determin e the o ontrover sy between !)etition er and defenda nts in the oondemn ation f pp0 oeedtng , and in the form and manner set forth in the said petition . (4} That the oourt 1s without jurisdic tion to hear and determin e the matter set forth in the manner and form set forth in said petition . �State Commission on Conservat ion Petitione r and Fevelopme nt, v. ) Demurrer Jojm K. Haney and Haney , his wife, Lula A. Defendant s �VIRGINIA. lli THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGH.l\U COUNTY. Tbe State Commission on Conservation & Development of the State of Virginia , Petitioner, Filed in the Clerk's Office Rockingham County, Va, v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and fifty-two ~housand, five hundred and si~ty-one {52 , 561) acres of land, more or less, - - - - - - - - - - - Defendants. TO THE HONORABIE H. W. BERTRAM, JUDGE OF SAID COURT: Your petitioner, the State Canmission on Conservation and Development, respectfully shows that by a judgment in rem, entered in the above styled proceeding on the 1.. i II day of f J ~ , 19~ , Tract No. 76 delineated and described on the County Ownership I.lap returned and filed with the report of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners and Special Investigators, was condemn~d f'or the use of petitioner and canpensation and damages for the taking thereof, were fixed and ascertained to be the sum of $4965.00; That it appears from an order entered in said proceeding on the ll." dey of )'.Y\) 19~,peti ti oner paid into the custody of the Court , the afores~ sum of ~4965.00 to be distributed to the party or parties entitled thereto; That during the progress of the above styled proceeding ~nd before the entry of said judgment in rem, one J. K. Haney filed in writing with the record on the lijth day of February , 1930, a claim setting forth that he was the sole owner of the said tract; That during the p endency of said proceedings and b afore the entry of the said judgment in rem, to-wit: on J'une 10th, 1931, the said J. K. Haney granted and conveyed unto your petitioner, a portion of said tract described as follows: "A strip or parcel of land 100 feet in width and located 50 feet on each side of a blazed or staked line,running through that ~ract or parcel of land of the parties of the first part , situated on top of the Blue Ridge mountains in and near Swift Run Gap adjoining the lands or T. L. Dean, :r. A. Haney and others."The consideration for said conveyance of said strip was the sum of ~2000 . 00 cash paid by your petitioner to the said J. K. Haney. The deed of conveyance for the same is dated June 10th, 1931, and �is of racer d in the Clerk's Office of this Court, in Deed Book: No. 150, at page 166, and said deed is herewith exhibited , marked for identific ation Exhibit No. 1 and asked to be read as a part of this petition. In said deed it was provided among other things , "that the land above referred to and through which the strip hereby conveyed runs is sktuated within that portion of Rockingham County, Virginia, now sought to be acquired by the party of the second part by condemna tion proceedin gs now pending in the Circuit Court of said County for use as a public park or for public park purposes, and it is understoo d and agreed that when said land shall have been acquired by the party of the second part by judgment of award ofS9.id Court, the sum of $2,000. 00 , considera tion of this conveyanc e, shall be deducted tran the amount of such judgment of award and shall be treated as a credit on account of the amount of such judgment of award." That no person other than the said J . K. Haney has filed in this proceedin g any claim of right, title, interest or estate in and to said tract or parcel of land, or to the proceeds of condemna tion thereof, and it appears from the record of said proceedin gs that said J. K. Haney, is entitled to the proceeds of condemna tion for said tract, sub~ ct, however , to this claim of petitione r; Petitione r avers that the said sum of $4965. 00 has not been distribut ed and yet remains in the custody of this Court, and that by reason of the provision contained in said deed of conveyanc e above set out, petitione r is entitled to be paid out of said proceeds of condemna tion, the sum of $ 2000. 00 ; Petitione r, therefore , prays, that it may be allowed to file this its petition; that the said John K. Haney may be made a party defend.ant thereto and required to answer the same but not under oath, which is waived; and that an order may be entered directing the Treasurer of Virginia to pay to it, out of the funds held by said Treasurer to the credit of this Court, in this proceedin g, said sum of $2000.00 , and, petitione r will ever pray, etc . STATE COMMISSIO N ON CONSERV ,TIO N & DEVELOPMENT : w;;;:_r~t?-tif'°~ COUNSEL. �The State Canmission on Conservation & Development of the State of Virginia , Petitioner, v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins, etc. et als, Defendants, PETITION . �AUBRKY G, WM . C . ARMSTRON G Wlf..-..YER LAW OFFICES WEA VER & ARMS TRON G FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINI A .h.pri l5th ,1935 . Mr. J. Rober t Switz er, Clerk , Harri ro nburg ; Virgi nia. Dear Jir : V!hen .I filed recen tly , the petit ion of the State Commission on Conse rvatio n & Devel opmen t v. J. K. Haney , I find that I faile d to file his deed to the Comm ission , which the petit ion calle d for as an exhib it. I am herew ith enclo sing the s.ame to you and reque st you t o mark it as an exhib it with 9ur petit ion. a/t . Yours very truly , �'rLr T'iF, ,,J , made o.nd entered into this 10th . day of June , 1931 , by and between J. r: . Haney and Lula .._. Haney , his '·Vife , parties of the first part , and t,'.e State CornrLiss ion on Co'l.serva - · tion and Develomne nt of the State of 1 irginia, part;r of the second part; .IT 1H·ITH: That, for and in considera tion of the sum of T JO TrIOUS 1.ED DOLL·.t-1.S ( ,'2 ,000 . 00), casn in hand paid, the recei ,t v1hereof is hereoy acl:-rowleJ. ged, the said parties of the first part do grant and corrvey, :ith general warranty of title , unto tlie s<1.id part~r of t1-1e second part, a strip or 'Jarcel of land 100 feet in width and located 50 feet on each side of a olazed or staked line runninD' through that tract or 1'.)8..rcel of ·land of the nartie s of the first ps.rt situated on top of t;1e 1,lue 1{idge 1,,otmtain in and near Swift Run Gap, adjoining the lands of '1' • .L. Dean , J. . Haney and others . A further considera tion of t~is conveyanc e shall be that the party of the second part , its successors or assigns, is to assume t:1e rf~~,oonsi bility for the moving off of the strip hereby conveyed of the follo 11ling buildings : The residence to be moved not over 200 feet from its present location and to be placed upon a concrete foundation with its footing below frost line depth and the store buildinr. to be moved 1:.ot over 300 feet fron its present location and to be placed on a foundation at leest of us good quality as its present one and the hon house to be moved not over 300 feet fror1 its Dre sent lo cat ion; the po.rty of the second p::..rt, its successors or asr ipns, bein 1,.: liable for any Qf:Ut1...1ge to the buildings ani to the furnishing s of the dYrnlling r•esulting from the moving t:nereof . IT IS further understood and aa;reed that t--1e said party.of the second port , its successors or assigns, shall enclose t'1e land hereby conveyed vrith a 1:u.rn.ber 9 - 49 woven wire fence; tne oosts for said fence to be either Metul or sound locust and spaced �not exceedin~ fourteen feet apart; sai fence to be provided 1ith t·ro e;e.tes on each side of t·1e roadua~· Dro osed to be constructed over sqid strip bEreb· co·1veyed, sail ~ates to be located at such 'Joints as the parties of t 1e first part sri tll desi na.tE, ; '-- lso it is understoo _ a .d greed t .at t 1e said its suc~essors or · ssic;ns, a.rty of the second art, v'i.11 canst ·uct and install one c. ttle under~ass, t s s' e to be not less than 6 feet by 6 feet, to be located at~ oint to be 0 elected by ~-e partier oft e first pait , , nJ .such pc:1.ss and fences to be constructed and co pleted bEfo:-ee he roadway afores---id shall bet .!'o:n onen to public travel . r further unde .... s tood and agreed t ... t t _e party I of -: .e second part, its "'ucces"'ors anc co"'si· uctio s ir:ns, sh 11, lu in of t1 e "onte .. plate l roe.dway her ir. r·efer ·ed to, ')e res'1onsiblc ind o t e cnt 7 for rn· har or d or ot er live stoc~ o a t e p"r ies o: t e first oart that may '.!and0r, stra.: n.:ay, or ~et off of t e ls.rd of t ,e o.· the first OV"l Oft rhic fe ces, or an 1 t1 stri, ,. of t•. erEbJ , no· erclosin rrnte la'1d above referre .... :t' c 0 o·nt o; t.c onrni "or destruction or re - art o~ )ci. stri11 ·n t 1 .n:ls 1e co•veyed runs. to ',n l t _!'ou le rune is situ.... ted. wit iin t rt ryo1·tion of o nt r, '\ irr·inia no of t 1 e seco·'1 ark nu:"i,o s es, 1. ve bee.~ 1 sou ht to be acquire '.:lrt b . r condc n tion Circuit ;ou1:t of s~-i · Count 11 t' e - i c 1 1 J 'oce din s ) 'er use as a public p r1 ire 1 b • ":; e p rt· o..., t curt, t· e sum o... E, t h.e 7endin 110 is un1erstool a.,....1. .... ,:,-recd L T t i or fo'Yl 11,n..., srcon-1 -1- Y)" e 1 ic il 1 art by jud e - 2,000 . 00, co'Ylsi fr t,~ on o{-" t'~:."' corvev ance, s .£..11 be decAucted fro· ·udr;eJ11ent of award a'1d shall be treated as the c;.. L. 1 r1ount d of such credit on account of t he amount of such judgement of avmrd • . . .,. _ 'Vitness the follo·rins sirmatures and seals: �County o f Rockin ha'TI , to - wit: do cert if_- t 8.t ._ . 'l . 1: ,ney ·1nd Lul - ose n .....nes c,re si ne l to t 10th . cl o.P Ju"' , 1931 , · f, _ ~~ . ocl· · ·1( of vOU 1CJ Ec.ney , ore oi:n- ci6( J , 9. , 1is ,·ife , l..ci_-ren t_1e ,,,.., e er- "~kno,; l e ir;ed · ~ c,, 1..c 11eforc ne in ~:_ ',ount..r ""fore said . Give '1 un er · h nJ. t' i s v Cormris. · on e - i:-·es o the il_ ":' c. • o i' ~ n , 1 G 1 • �'---' The Commonwealth of Virginia: To the Sheriff of Rockingham County, Greeting: You are hereby commanded to summon ...... .. . .G~ .. J?.~...IC~J..~~r...(¥.:t.•..qr.?-~f.e>:i:-c:l), J .e.s.se ... Sims., ....and...C.•.. F..•... Shi.f f lett,...... ~.~ ...M. ~ ... 1:Ill.:f.:f.II1~:µ, ... c1.r1c:1 .. ~ • .. (} ~ .. .:S..E3.a.-.S. .:!-: '3-Y, ............................................. ................................. . ; a_:,:ar before the J...;;~1.,'he Circuit 5 '9°fg(ff lo~~:gham County, at the Court H ouse, on the ............... day of .. ...................... .. .......... . 193 .5 ...[ to testify and the truth to say on behalf o f ~ Defendant ,. ... J , ... :l\.~...U.@ .~Y,....Y.:.~....... . in a certain matter of controversy in our said Court, j1e11ding and undetermined betw een St a t e Commission on······ Conservation & Development of the .................................................. ................ :· · state or vTrgiriia ....Plaintiff and J. K. JI<l.r.l~Y., ........................... .. .. Defendant And hav e then and there this Writ. In witness whereof, I hereunto set m y hand, as the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Va., at the C01trt House thereof, this, the23. .. day of 19 3 A.pr:L::J,., ... .......... . . .... . ...... ....... .. . .. , 5 , and in the l~tithyear of the Co? mJ:Y,eal th. i7J~~~~ 7#:,, ~ ea / . · - ~ P & l P RESS HA RRI SO NB URG VA 2.'b �J . K. HANEY ADS . STATE COM . ON CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT F. S. Tavenner , p . d . 1 935 Apr . 25 �F. S . T AV ENNER J. M. BAUSERMAN LAW OFFICES TA.VENNER & BAUSERMAN WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA. May 1 , 1935 Mr . J . Robert Switzer, Clerk , Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Harrisonburg , Virginia. Dear Mr. Switzer: Re: State Commission on Conservation and Development v . John K. Ha ney. I am enclosing herewith two papers, namely, Statement of Defense , and Bill of Particulars , which I will thank you to file with the papers in the above sty led suit , and mark the same "Filed" . Thanking you , I am, Yours truly, Ts .if- s°~ ~ F. Tavenner /(_ R/Eno . 2 Il, �coum IN THE CIRCUIT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY t VIRGINIA. ._ • The State Commiss~on on Conservation and Development, v.) ... • f I f "1 -~ Filed i, , ' - · •,., ..~ Rockingham County, a, k.:.-1 p ~ 1935 ~~lerk Statement of Defense. John K. Haney and Lula A. Haney, his wi.fe. tf< ANSWER OF JOHN K. HANEY AND WLA A. HANEY, his wife, to petition of The State Commission on Conservation and Development against these defendants, arising by reason of f'unds found to be due defendant Haney in the condemnation of his lands. (1) Defendants suggest that there is pending now in t .he Supreme Court of the trni ted States a suit by Via and others invo1ving the right of the Federal Government, and as incident thereto the State Government, to appropriate the lands in the Park area, of which defendants' lands are part, and suggest the impropriety of i cwt•g trying the pending proceeding while the said proceeding :ta ox in the U. s. Supreme Cou.r-t is so . pending, and ask that no hearing be ma.de by the court ~f this matter until disposition be made of the waid proceed:ll.ngo (2) Defendants show that in prooeedi.ngs instituted by IB titioner, commissioner s were appointed to appraise the lands of defendants, which was accordingly done, but without a hearing afforded defendants; that an appraisement was made which was returned subsequently to the Court, to-wit, on the _day of - - - - - - - • 1.9_, and to this report exceptions were filed, but subsequently defendants consented 17 �Jlll. to arbitration before a tribunal consisting of three Judges designated by the Government, to-wit, on or about the ____day of ________ , 19_ _ , and upon a hearing in which witnesses testified, to-wit, on the 2d day of February, 1934, an award was made by s,aid tribunal, and the amount. of damages in favor of defendants was fixed at $4,965.00, which sum on the 6th day of U (3) Mat, 1934, was paid into court, Defendants aver that during the pendenoy of the proceedings for condemnation, and before the arbitration was consented to, to-wit, on the 10th day of June, 1931, defendants conveyed a strip of land 100 feet in width to petitioner upon consideration of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,00Oo00} cash in hand paid, and in further consideration of the agreements of petitioner contained in said writing, to be kept, done and performed by the said petitioner, copy of which agreement is filed with this statement of defense, and mark eel "HANEY A". (4) In t;he event, over the objection of defendants, the oourt decides that it is proper to proceed to determine the rights of petitioner to demand payment of S'J!!,Y part of the amount awarded defendants, your defendants deny the right of petitioner to the said fund, or to any part thereof, an:I set ~orth the statement of facts and the grounds of defense, as ~ollows: �The said agreement of June, 1931, provided for the moving of the residenoe building not over two hundred feet from its then location, and to be placed upon conorete foundation, with its footing to be below frost line depth; and the store building to be moved not over three hundred feet :trom its then location, and to be placed upon a foundation of at least as godii quality as its then present one; and the hen house to be moved not over three hundred feet from its then location, and the said State Commission on Conservation and Development to be liable for any d'.amage to the building and to the furnishings of the dwelling resulting from the moving thereof. The agreement further provided that petitioner would enolose the land conveyed with No. 9-45 woven wire ~ence, the posts for said fence to be either metal or sound looust posts, spaced not exoeeding fourteen feet apart, atid fence to be provided with two gates on eaoh side of the driveway proposed to be constructed over said strip conveyed, said gates to be located at such points as :ta defendant John K. Haney should: designate; that the said State Commission would construct and install a cattle under-pass, the same not to be less than six feet by six feet, and to be located at a point to be selected by said Haney, and such pass and fence to be constructed and completed before the driveway shou.ldl be thrown open to public traffic. It was further a greed that during the construction of the said driveway, the State Commission should be responsible in damages for any harm or damage done or occasioned to the cattle or other livestock of the said defendant, that might wander, stray away or get af.'f the land of the said defendant on acoount of the opening, or oeatruction, or removal of the t ·enoes, or any of them, then enclosing the lands through which the strip ran. -3- n �The sail d land w.as described as part of the land acquired by the State Commission Q condemnat ion proceedin gs pending in the Circuit Court of the County of RJ)ckingham for use as a public ::pa,rke It was further thereby agreed that "when said land shaill. have been acquired by t)e party of t he second part, by judgment or award of said court, the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000oOO ), considera tion for this aaux conveyanc e, shall be deducted from the amount of such judgment or award and shall be treated as a credit on account of the amount of such Judgment or award." Your defendant s say that under a fair: construct ion of the said agreement that it was not intended that defendants should donate to the State Commission the s aid strip of land an~ waive the benefit of the enhanced values o:f said real e- state rendered by the natural improveme nt created by the oonstruot ion of the said driveway. In any c onclemnat ion proceeding for tU,is tdrive·way, defendant s are entitled to be paid for the land taken, and for any injury or damage done to the residue of their lands, over any peculiar benefits derived by them by reason of the opening of said driveway. In estimating the value of the property condemned, the court necessari ly took into considera tion the vllue of the lands of the s a id defendant s then taken, and not the va l ue of the lands that they oonveyetl to the State Commission. In other words, the lands condemned were the lands remaining as the property of defendant s after defendant s 1llad made sale of the strip of land to petitione r. �Defendants, therefore, say that the said strip of land was not embraced in the award, and no provision was made for the payment of its value. Defendants were not eompensated by the State Commission on Conservation and Development for the said driveway- in the awardo In order to enable the said Commission to be entitled to the fund of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000oOO) to be paid, it was essential that this dri-geway itself sh.ould have been considered as part of the Haney traot of land, and that the improvements provided for umder tij.e said agreennent should likewise have been treated as an addition to the vallue of the property, and that provision shouM:. be made for compensating the said defendants for the other things above mentioned that the State Commission was obligated under its agreement to perform for· the said defendants. Defendants further say that the agreement provided, as aforesaid, for the removal of the residence frc:m its then location. The dwelling was not moved but was permitted to remain, and is in part actual.ly located on the driveway. The removal of this dwelling to a proper location,and its location on a good concrete foundation, with its footing below frost line depth, would. have enhanced the value of the property of de~endants that was subsequently oandemne~ 0 The limits of the driveway, as above stated, included part of the dwelling and the entire front yard, and within this yard in front of defendants' dwelling, a fill about six ~ feet high was built. The hen house of defendants was torn down and wreoked,and it was not removed to another looation as provided in the agreement. 21 �The agreement provided, as above stated, for the land by No. 9-49 woven w:bre fence, enolosure of the lll.nd for the placing of posts, metal or sound locust posts, not to exceed fourteen feet apart, with gates, &o. the petit loner also ignored. This provision No wire fence was built and no gates consequently were erected and no posts placed, except a small. plot defendants built as a temporary enclosure for detendantsr cows. The agreement also provided for the construction of a cattle under-pass, under the highway, six feet by six feet 9 suoh pass and fences to be constructed before the driveway was thrown open :fb r public traffio. This provision of the agreement was also ignored It was further agreed that the petitioner shoulil be responsible in damages for any harm or damage done or occasioned to the cattle or other livestock of the said dei'endants that might wander, stray away or get off the lands of the said defendants on account of the openings or destruction or removal of the fences, or any of them, that enclosed the lands through which this strip ran. As above stated, no wire fence was built, and defendamits' lands were thrown open to the public, the cattle of others foraged upon defendants' land, and defendants' cattle and other livest~ck were thus permitted to wander and stray away, and did wander and stray away to the lands of others, with the result that defendants were practically deprived of the use of their lands, and with the further result that defendants' lands were thrown open for foraging stock. In 1931, defendants had thirty-one steers on pasture, besides their own cattle, within their enclosure ; and in iiB: 1932 they had about five to s even head of cattle for three months, but defendants could not -6- �properly care for the stock without enclosures, and in 1933 and 1934 defendants were deprived of the use of the land for pasture,exce pt t he use of a small portion of it for defendants' own stock. The value of this smal1 use of pasture was more tban set 0:. f by the failure of petitioner to provide for enclosure, and the c06t of oaring for the stock exceeded the walue derived from the pasture, as the cattle would not remain upon the premises, but were constantly wandering away-o The J:B·ti t ioner dis:t1egarded its contract ,except to pay the $2,000oOO, and this sum petitioner is now seeking to recoup, so that, in effeot, !)e'titioner is seeking to recover im fran defendants the amount paid, and at the same time to avoid oom.ply"ing with its agreement, thus seeking to gain possession of defendants' property without the payment of a farthing and entail upon defendants loss of use of their property; in substance, to acquire the driveway, to the very great detriment of defendants, wi~hout oost to petitioner. (5} should Your defendants deny that you:r defend.an ta suffer any deduction from the award made to them, and especially that petitioner should be repaid the said $2,000.00, or any part thereof, for the reasons following: (a) The petitioner having failed to comply substantiall y, or in any materl.al degree, in the performance of its agreement, the petitioner should not be now permitted to assert its said claim to the said $2,000.00. �(b) If the said Commissio n had complied with its agreement s hereinabo ve set forth, the market and usable value of the propert y taken would have been enhanced to a sum in excess of the said $2,000oOO . (c) The petitione r should not be permitted to profit by its own wrong. The failure of petitione r to construct the pass-way for cattle under the driveway, the failure to build the fenoes, the failure to remove the buildings to proper location, the doing of which things woull have entailed an expense on petitione r in excess of the said $2.000.00 • and the Commissio n should, therefore , not be permitted to take advantage of its own wrong and recoup from defendant s the consid_eration for the conveyanc e. (d} Tge va lue of the property, if the agreement s of petitione r had been complied with, would have been enhanced so that the award should have been according ly to that extent enlarged, which, together with the loss sustained by defendant s in the use of their lands by reason of the lack of fences and t h e convenien t use of their property, and the failure to construct the passway, amounted to a latge slllll to-wit, a s um in excess of the said eiash payment. other of money, On the hand, defendant s have sustained very heavy loss and damage, as shown by bill of particula rs filed herewith, by reason of failure to do the things agreed by petitione r, as aforesaid , to be done by it, and to an amount in eacess of the said sum of $2.000.00 prayed by petitione r. Account is herewi~h filed setting forth particula rs of i t ems of loss and damage sustained by defendant s, marked "Defendan ts' Exhibit B". -82·~ �(e) The reaso nabl e cost s to the peti tion er to d o the thing s that it solem nly agree d to do and perf orm, as a cons idera tion f~r the exec ution by defe ndan ts of the said deed , woul d have been as follo ws : i he bui lding of 3 22 rods of wire , the purc hase and plan ting of pcs ts , and. consfence truct ion of wire fence , with post s 14 feet apar t , woul d have been •••• •••• •••• •••• •••• •••• •••• •••• •••• •••• • $ 3 22. 00 The cost to peti t i oner f or cons ing the cattl e pass prov ided to have been builtruct t unde the Skyl ine drive way ~ BX to furn ish passw ay for r catt le and acce ss to wate r for man and beas t , woul d have been ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ......... •••. 1, 500 . 00 The cost of remov i ng the dwel , the cons truct ion of a prop er foun datio n , amd ling t he prop er resto rat i on of the dwel ling upon this foun datio n , woul d have been .•••• o•• ····· ····· ····· 750. 00 The defen dants ask t h at 0J udgm ent be awar ded defe ndan ts agai nst pet ition er for the exce ss of the wx said claim of defe ndan ts over the claim of pe tit ione r . Defe ndan ts now deny all righ t of said peti tion er to claim anyth ing from the said defe ndan ts over and abov e the liab ility of peti tion er to defe ndan ts . ~ {! :~ ar ~/ 4? ~~ By F~t.~ ~ ~ �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ,fIFGINIA. filed in the C'.t:1 ;. . CJ Gi11 Rockingham Count , State Commission on Conservation and Development •••••••••••••••••• Petitioner v.) Bill of Particulars. John K. Haney &o ••••••••••••••••• Detend~nts BILL OF P ARTICUL.ARS by John K. Haney ,filed in connection with and as part of Statement of Defense of said Haney in the above styled matter. (1) Loss of convenient use of land and build i ngs from June 11, 1931, to February, 1934, as provided in the agreement, during that time, as follows: (a) Loss of use of pasture on account of failure to build fences (9-49 woven wire , including posts of metal or sound locust, to be planted JD:li" zpaewi not exoeeding 14 feet apart), it being practioa"Lly impossible to ~x rent out the pasture on detendamts' land to livestock owners with the said land thrown open to the public, a ioss sustained , independent ~~~~a~~:~ ... (b) labor in oaring for defendants' own livestook, necessitated by failure to enc1ose the lands, for a period of three years ................ (o) Inoonvenience and loss of comfortable enjoyment and use af the dwelling by reason of the failure to move the dwelling house to proper location and in the manner as provided for in the agreement, the removal of the dwelling rendered necessary by reqson of the construction of the Skyline Drive across d:efendants' front yard and i rnmed iate ly in front of defendants' front doer, and wihim a few feet therefrom; and being further rendered necessary by reason of high embankment and fill of rock and dirt created immediately in front of defendants' dwelling in building the driveway; and a further loss and inconvenience in the use of the said ~~el±;Si and property from June 1931, to February t 0 •••••••••••••••••~••••o••••••••••••••••••o 250.00 - 75.00 250.0Q �State Commission on Conservation & Development Petitioner v. John K. Haney and wife, Defendants Statement of Defense / Tavenner & Bauserman Attornegs at Law Woodstock, Virginia The Linden Printing Company, Hartford, Connecticut �(2) Loss in marke t valLue of real estate by reason of the follow ing: (a) Failur e to build , accord ing to agree ment , a passw ay 6 feet by six feet under the Skylin e Drive so as to enable livest ock to pe.f}~f rom one s ide of the farm to the other , and t o provid e0aoo ess oto conve nient water for anima ls and for domes tic purpo ses , (b) Failu re to remove the dwell ing from fill or embankment , create d in defen dants' front yardthe suitab le positi on as provid ed in the agreem ent, and to, to a a papx prope r frost proof fbund ation, and failur e to remove also and restor e the chicke n house as also provid ed in said agreement ; Loss of land taken in the said Skylin e Drivewa.y1 ~ . e ,~ 1 .., (c) ~~ J...,_ ~ ~~7 ~ ~~. £'~ ,,-1 .t, ' _,I;~ ~ ~ '~°o/ $2 , 575 . 00 )!/:;.:~~~--, The total amount which defend ants ask to be set off again st petiti oner' s claim of $2 , 000 . 00 is $2 , 575 . 00, and judgm ent is asked by defen dants for the exces s, namely, $575. oo. �State Commission on Conservation and Developm~ t, Peti tf.oner I v.) Bi:ttx J'ohn K. Haney &c., Defend an .,s , Bill of Particulars by John K. Haney. Tavenner & Bauserman Attornegs at Law Woodstock, Virginia The Linden Printing Company, Hartford, Connecticut �IN THE CIRCUIT COURr OF ROCKINGHAM COillITY , VIlUINIA . State Commission on Conservation and Development ••••••••••• o • • • • • • Petitioner Vo ) Order J"ohn K. Haney and Lula A. Haney o Defendants This 16th day of May , 1935 , came the parties , by thei r attorneys , and the defendant , John K. Haimey , moved xkm to set aside the verdict of the jury and to grant defendants a new tr:!Lal on the following several grounds : (l } Because the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence . (2 ) Because t he court deoiined to p ermit proper evidence offered by defendants and excluded the same from the jury , ani permitted the introduction of improper evidence offered by the petitioner , and over the objection of defendants . (3) Because the court refused proper instruct ions offered by the defeniants , an:i granted i:mproper]Qc i nstructions offered by petitioner , and improperiy modified i nstructions tendered by defendants . (4) Because the court , upon the motion of de,: fendants, declined at the end of the i ntroduction of petitioner ' s evidence , to susta:iLn a mot ion to strike the testi many of petitioner . �(5) Because the court improperJl y overruled the demurrer of defendant s to the pxx~tm:: u: petition. (6) Because the verdict of the jury is excessive . Whereupon , it is considered by the court that the motion of defendant s be denied, and it is according ly considered by the coUirt, and the c ourt doth adjudge, that the petitione r, the State Comm17o n on Cobservat ion and Developme nt, do recover out of the fund to the credit of the cause, and under the control of t he court, anl standing in the name of John Ko Hru:mey and wife, and that there shall be paid to the said Commissio n from the said fund, the sum of One Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ($1,700.0 0), the amount found by the verdict of the jury in this proceedin g. 1, Defendant s expressing an intention to apply for a writ of error to the Supr.ame Court of Appeals of Virginia to dr the judgment of the court, the execution of this judgment is 6 stayed for the period of 0 defendant s to apply for the said writ o to enable the error. The fund ($4,965000 ) being now in the hands of the court to the oredi t of lliKR John K. Ha:i ey in this ca use, no suspending bond is required. -2- �State Commission on Conservation & Deve;opment, Petitioner v . ) Order John K. Haney and Lula A. Haney, Defendants �F". S . TAV ENNER J.M . BAUSERMAN LA.W OFFICES TAVENNER&BAUSER MAN WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA May 16, 19350 Mr. Robert Switzer, Clerk, Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Dear Mr. Switzer: Re: State Commission on Conservation & Development v. J. K. Hmey and wife I am enclosing herewith order prepared by me in the above styled cause, which y:JU will please call to the attention of the court. The court will, of course, make such changes in the order as he may deem proper. Tha~ing you, I am, Yours truly, F. ~fl~ ~ s._ Tavenner )c__ R/ Enc. Copy to - Mr. W. C. Armstrong, Front Royal, Va. Judge A. C. Carson, Riverton , Va. Mr. Everett b Luray, Va. Will, JO �State Commission on Conse rvatio n & Deve;o pment , Petiti oner v . ) Order John K. Haney and Lula A. Haney , Defen dants �F. S. TAV ENNER J.M . BAUSERM A N LA.W OFFICES TAVENNER& BAUSERM..A..N WOODSTOCK , VIRGINIA May 16' 19350 Mr. Robert Switzer, Clerk, Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Harrisonburg , Virginia. Dear Mr. Switzer: Re: State Commission on Conservation & Development v. J. K. Hm ey and wife I am enclosing herewith order prepared by me in the above styled cause, which y:u will please call to the attention of the court. The court will, of course, make such changes in the order as he may deem proper. Tha~ing you, I am, Yours truly, ~fl~~ F. s._ Tavenner )c_ R/ Enc. Copy to - c. Armstrong, Front Royal, Va. Mr. W. Judge A. C. Carson, Riverton, Va. Mr. Everett b Luray, Va. Will, 10 �V - ~ &e~~ ~-- ?'L-C.-~~~ ~ a- U;,:7;;;-~~- a'-o ~ p j)- );(' ) ' ~ ~ ~ :J' ,,,9;7--oc1c,_ Uv e(? ~~ ~/~~~ ~ - ~' ~~~P -~~ ~ 15_]. P u ~ ~ ~ 2-1:, --- / - ~7 r---1--"-- ?~ ~ ~ -- - - vk,, ~ ; . _ , ~ '---"----"-~-~,,-,., _,.-- - - /--, oo - - -11- - - - - - ~ ---1,h--/ - -- -t . - - ~ - ee~r«- &-~ ~ - - - -- ?~ --1~~. - ~ c:e_ ~ ~~~ ~ ---- ~~ - - - - ll~- '""_/L/T..r' ~~ _ /4e&e>~ ~~ ~ -- - --- . ____, ,. ._._ ,..__...__~ A, 7 ~ ~~ ~ -- - ~ -- - - - 1~ - ---- ~ - __ . _ _,, I\ �AUBREY G. WEAVER WM . C . ARMSTRONG LAW OFFICES WEAVER 8c ARMSTR ONG FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA May 115th, 1935. Judge H. W. Bertram , Harris onburg , Virgin ia. Dear Judge Bertram : Upon reflect ion, I have conclud ed there is no necess ity for my prepar ing and having entere d, the order of distrib ution of the proceed s of condem nation of the J. K. Haney land, at the presen t time. I believe you asked me to get this order to you not later than Tuesda y. I have not seen the order which Judge Tavenn er was to prepar e and send you to be entered and doubt if I will be able to do so. Howeve r, I have no doubt that Judge Tavenn er wi 11 proper ly prepar e it and do not ask that the entry be withhe ld in order to let me see it first. Yours very a/t. 1:1 �J-o -~~/ J2~~~~ 1r b 7 / d.. t'l :I I tL~ I d. J/ II rt /1 ~--7, ; >1 l#d/ /I E I I '1 ~A I I <o l l J__ I ( ,, I/ A ~/ I I/ 'l ~ 7--/y I I J' 11;., ,;-b?-- - ~ ,, ~ ~~~ f ?-- ' ~ , ; l $</ l ,,, V../.. 11 - e!~ ~ ft &-~- (/µ .' -/44/(~/Y -& ' ~ $ / r~- ~6 b ~7 J lI / ' ' 3l- 1r 1 'J- )3 �I y' ,t, O . ( / - C? I.... -; 3 ._ -B 6 1 , vo �\'-\ �M INSTRUCTION NO . --- THE COURr INSTRUCTS THE JURY that the defendan. t, J. K. Haney , is entitled to have as a set~off against the claim of petitinner,t& -the ex:tea=s &.f t ne dan:ages, if any, shown by the evidence to have been sustained by him ; and the Jury are instructed that they are the sole judges of credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given their testimony. 15 �VIRGINIA: IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, ..... ~......... / ..... ~ ............19?fl- ·····~··~~(I;:~:} Plaintiff vs. ··· · ·. . / j~. ·. . · · ·. ............. ·· · · . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . ..} Defendant Ju~·~,~o:·~f~ i fl? wi~ in~:,:,··. ·. •··· · · · ····· · · ······.·. ··.·.··•··· · ··· · ··•· · ·•· · · · ·· · · · · · · · ,~;,;~~·~,·~1;·~£ ,;~·;~,;~,~~·p,;·:~~=f;~·:~;·2c;zli~:~;·::zz;;;;;~:,·;J:Z:,:,·;n~: and $... 2..!.... =-c...... costs, together with an attorneys fee of..~ ............. ; s~~;~~ o~e~v·e ;,..t~·the following credits: ...:-:-.......... ...................... , directed to on the. ~ .day of ............................ , 19 ........ , returnable to .. .,.,__ _ _ _ _ _......~ the ...~ ........ of the ....... :-:-:-,-,,..,,_.,._..,..,.., .. ,-,., .., ......... of .....~"'"----............ , who made the following return thereon, to-wit: ..... ... ............. ..... ......... ...... ...... ............................. .... ..... ..... . , i--t. 25 �VIRGINIA: IN THE CLERK'S OFFI ~ ~ .... vs. . ·n~·;· / ··~ ~.. -;:···· . /4 . . ... . . . . . . .... . . r~ 1 , Li· ~ o iP;; ti.iZi Judgment in favor of plaintiff for $ ./.CJ.., .. ~ ,£Yith interest .. . . . ..................................... .... } ....................................... ....................... ....... . thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum from the ................ day of ...-:-:---.. .. .. ..• .. .... .. .. , 19 .. ~ and $.. ............ D,fondant until paid, ..... costs, together with an attorney's fee of .......... . .....~.: .. ; subject, however, to the following credits: :~ ~m~ jM ~b;.~~i:~ ~l~t... ,,;·~,·~.!.l~ omt•o;·~~,m £)~ 1J:&-::n County, Virginia, on. ~ ~ · · .. · ... Judgment Lien Docket No./. . page . . . . _ . . . . _ A F1en Fac1as was 1ssu Irom ......................... ........ _ .. ............. ...... .. ...... .. ....... ... ...... .................... ......... ..... .. .... ... ...... ...... . on the. ~ .. day of .......~.. .. , 19 ... .... , returnable to . .................... .... ~ ... ................... ... .. ... ................ , directed to the ......... ...... .............. .. ....... . of the .... ............. .. ................. of ...... ~..... :-:-.~...... .. ., who made the following return thereon, to-wit: ........ .... ..... ......................... ... .... ........................ .. ........ ..... ..... ..... .. ............ ....... ..................... . ...................... ... �VIRGINIA: 4 . .. IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, ... Jc::. . .8 . . . ... .1'J2.2 ··~.~~7 • • .• • • . • • ••.. . . . • • • •.• •. • } Pl, in<iff vs. ....... ........... ...... ................ ... ........... .... ......... ... ....... .... ................... ..... ~··· ····· · · · · ·.......... ~ ·..... ·· ........... · · · ......................... ..... . thereon at tiJJ~ of six per centum per annum from the and $.. /2.. ..=. day of .... .......... . ... ... ........... , 1dt.-, until paid, 3...~ ......... cost s, together with an attorney's fee of .. ... ...... .......... .; subjec , however, to t he following credits: th~ on, to-wit:. ~.2.3.~. /io. ~ ,, �VIRGINIA: IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, ... b ~.... J ..3 ~ . . ,98-~ hf/}~ · ; · ·· · · ~ ~ : ····· · ···· ···· ································ ······· } ...... -'/k f.. ..~ ~.. . /)p7 .. . . . . . ... ......... .................. . . . .................. . Plaintiff vs. ·· · · · · · .... : ~ · · .. .... ·· ~~ .......... .. .. ... . · Judgment in favor of plaintiff for $.~ .. ......... · · .. · · ......... .................... .......... } Defendant 1 ·············· ······ ··· ··· ···· ·········· ······· ··· ··· ··· ·· ·· ···· ······· , 1... ., with interest .................................. .. ................................ .. ....... . .. ............ ..... ... ... ................ .... ....... ........ .. ... .... ..... ................. .. ...... .. ..~ ...... .. ........ :,(.. .. 1.£ ..... I ...... ..................... ...... .. ~ ... day of .. J ~ l ~ ~ntil paid, thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum from the 3 ... . and $.d.,. 7..~. . costs, together with an attorney's fee of .................. .. .; subject, however, to the following credits: thereon, to-wit: .-., .....,.,..-........... ...........-..~._ _...,.., .....,.,....,.,.,'...'... .":-~..~..~.. ,-,. ...~ ...... ................................. ... .... .. ......... ...................... .......... ........................ .. o/~r~ ~~~t;;;L·.···············, C1.,k. �(!lnmmnuwraltq nf ltlirgiuia TREASUER'S OFFICE RI C H M O N D , VA , ~~ July 31, 1935 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA A. B . Gathright This is to certify that I , ~ . Treasurer of Virginia have this 31 day of Ju)y in accordance with an order of the circuit court of Rackingbam County dated 7/29/35 in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Develo:pment of the State of Virginia VS • -----------'"'c.a. .....s....s.....a....n.....d....r.........a___._L....a"-"w'-"s:u.O.LnJu,.._~A.+-k . . .....1..1 J.n,L.s;;,. . . _aj::a.n ...a ~ ....01-1.t...h.i.i:e~ri,.:.;S:;;.-- - :p aid to John T. Harris and D. W. Earman , Attorneys for the· said John K. Haney $ 2 , 279.66 being in full settlement of tract # 76 in the above mentioned cause . so �o.tnmmnuwtalt11 nf lllirgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. July 31, 1935 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA Jahn T. Harris and D. said John K. Haney w. Earman, Attorneys for the A. B. Gathright Received o f ~ , Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 2 1 279.66 , in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county of Rockingham of July entered on the 29th day 1935_, in the matter of the State Commission on Conservation and Development v _ __ Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, being . .._ Sign or ig in a l and dupli c at e a nd return to the Treasurer of Vi r g ini a . SI �illnmmnnwraltt, nf lllirgiuia TREASUER'S OFFICE RI C H M O N D , VA . July 31 , 1935 TREASURER OF V IRGIN IA A. B . Gathright This is to certify that I , J ~ Treasurer of Virginia have this 31 day of July in accordance wi th an order of the circuit court of Rockingham County dated 7/29/35 i n the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Develo:pment of the State of Virginia vs . :paid to Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others State Camm1ssion on Conser:srstion & De1relopment - $ l 1 7J0 . 50 being in full settlement of tract #- -7~6 in the above mentioned cause . �Q.tnmmnuwtalt11 nf liirgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. July 31, 1935 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA State Commission on Conservation & Development A. B. Gathright Received o f ~ Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 1 1 710.50 , in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county of Rockingham of July entered on the 29th day 1935_, in the matter of the State Commissio n on Conservation and Development v _ __ _ c-a~a~a~a-n_d_r~a~_L=a=w~s~o=n~A~t=k=i=n=s~____ and others, being full and complete settlement for the tract of land known in said proceeding as #- 7 ~6_ ___ Sign original and duplicat e and return to the Treasurer of Virginia. 53 �Qlnmmnuwraltq nf ]Hrgiuia TREASUER ' S OFFICE RI C H M O N D , VA , July 31, 19 35 ~ TREASURER OF VIRGINIA A. B. Gathright This is to certify that I , ~ Treasurer of Virginia have this 31 day of July in accordance with an order of the circuit court of Rockingham County dated_ 7~.~L-2=9~/~3=5'--_in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and DeveloJ_)ment of the State of Virginia Cassandra others vs . - - - - - - - Lawson - - - -Atkins - - - -and ----------J_)aid to Elizabeth Thompson $ 229 .oo being in full settlement of tract# 76 in the above mentioned cause . �Qtnmwnuwtaltq of ]Jtrgiuta TREASU RER'S OFFICE RICHMO ND, VA. July 31 1 1935 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA Elizab eth Thompson A. B. Gathri ght Receiv ed o f ~ Treasu rer of Virgin ia, the sum of$ 229.00 , in accord ance with an order of the Circui t Court of the county ham Of- -Rocking 29th day ---~ - - - - - entered on the ____ of July 193~, in the matter of the State Commis sion on Conser vation and Develop ment v _ __ ____C=a=s~s=a=n=d=r~a=-=L=a~w~s~o=n-=-----.cA=t=k=i=n=s~_and others , being full and comple te settlem ent for the tract of land known in said procee ding as #~7_6____ Sign origin al and duplic ate and return to the Treasu rer of Virgin ia. �Q!nmmnuwraltq nf lllirgiuia TREASUER ' S OFFICE RI C H M O N D , VA , July 31, 1935 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA A. B. Gathright This is to certify that I , ~ . Treasurer of Virginia have this in accordance 31 day of July with an order of the circuit court of Rockingham County dat ed~- -7~/_2_9~/_3_5__ in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia Cassandra Lawson Atkins and-----'others VS • - -----'---'~~=-'-'=-"-'----=---=-=;........cc"-== ==-~=..c-' "'-"-'=-=--=- - - - :paid to D. W. Earman $ 573 . 00 being in full settlement of tract in the above mentioned cause . # 76 �Q!nmwnumtaltq nf llirgiuta TREASUR E~'S OFFICE RICHMOND , VA. ~ July 31, 1935 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA D. w. Earman A. B. Gathrigh t Received o f ~ ~ Treasur er of Virginia , the sum of$ 573.00 , in accordan ce with an order of the Circuit Court of the county of of Rockingh am July entered on the 29th day 193L, in the matter of the State Commiss ion on Conserv ation and Developm ent v _ __ __C_a._s_s_a_n_d_r_a_ L_a_w _s_o_n __t_k_i_n_s____ and others, being full and complete settleme nt for the tract of land known in said proceed ing as #_ 7_6____ Sign origina l and duplica te and return to the Treasur er of Virginia . �C!Inmmnnwraltq nf lllirginia TREASUER'S OFFICE RICHMOND . VA , July 31 1 1935 J ~ TREASURER OF V I RGINIA A. B. Gathright This is to certify that I , ~ . Treasurer of Virginia have this 31 day of with an order of the circui t July court of in accordance Rockingham County 3_5__ in the cause of the State Commission ,__ daten~- 7~/~2--'9/ on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia . Lawson Atkins and others Cass andra - --- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - vs• - - - - - - - -- w. Earman, Attorney for c . a corporation paid to D. $ 61.65 w. Beggs Sons & Company, being in full settlement of tract # in the above mentioned cause . 76 �l atnmmnuwtaltq nf llirgiuta TREAS URER' S OFFIC E RICHM OND, VA, TREASURE R OF VIRGINIA D. w. Earman, Attor ney for a corpo ratio n c. w. Beggs Sons & Company, A. B. Gath right Recei ved of J ~ , Treas urer of Virgi nia, the sum of$ 61.65 , in accor dance with an order of the Circu it Court of the count y of_~R=o~c=k=i=n=g=ha=m~--- enter ed on the 29th of '1:uly day 193L , in the matte r of the State Comm ission on Cons ervat ion and Devel opme nt v _ _ _ -~C~a~s~s~a_n~d=r~a~L=a=w~s~o=n~A~t=k=Li=n=s____ and other s, being full and comp lete settle ment for the tract of land known in said proce eding as #_ 7 _6____ Sign ori gi nal and dupli cate and retur n to the Treas urer of Virg inia. �Q!nmmnuwraltq nf Birgiuia TREASUER ' S OFFICE R-1 C H M O N D , VA , July 31, 1935 ~ TREASURER OF VI RGINIA A. B. Gathright This i s to certify that I , J ~ , Treasurer of Virginia have this 31 day of July in accordance with an order of the circui t court of Rockingham County datea 7/29/35 in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Develo:pment of the State of Virginia Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others VS • - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - :paid ton. $ 97 . 75 w. Earman , Attorney for the Weyers Cave Milling Company, a corporation being in full settlement of tract #- -7_6_ in the above mentioned cause . Sf, �Qtommnuwraltt, of llirgiuta TREASU RER'S OFFICE RICHMO ND, VA. July 31., 193 5 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA D, w. Earman, Attorn ey for the Weyers Cave Millin g Company, a corpor ation Receiv ed o f ~ , Treasu rer of Virgin ia, the sum of$ 97.75 , in accord ance with an order of the Circui t Court of the county of _ _R_o_c_k_i_n~g~h_am _ __ __ entere d on the 29th day of ,Tul:y 193_.5_, in the matter of the State Commis sion on Conser vation and Develo pment v _ __ __C_a_s_s_a_n_d_r_a_L_a_w_s_o_n __A_t_k_i_n_s____ and others , being full and comple te settlem ent for the tract of land known in said procee ding qS #-7~6~- -- - Sign origin al and duplic ate and return to the Treasu rer of Virgin ia . 57 �Q!nmmnuwraltq nf ]Itrgiuia TREASUER'S OFFICE RI C H M O N D , VA , July 31, 1935 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA A. B . Gathright This is t o certify that I; ~ . Treasurer of Virginia have this 31 day of July in accordance with an order of the circuit court of Rockingham County dated 7/29/35 in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Develo:pment of the State of Virginia Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others V S • -----=--==-==='--=---~-=--=--=----=-===-....c..c..===-----"---"-='-"--=--=------ :paid to D. w. $ being in full settlement of tract# 13.44 Earman, Attorney for the D1Jl Company, a corporation 76 in the above mentioned cause. 59 �Qtnmmnumtaltq nf ]ttrgtuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. July 31, 1935 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA D. w. Earman, Attorney for The Dill Company, a corporation A. B. Ga thr ight Received o f ~ , Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 13.44 , in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county of_ ~R~a~c~k-i_n .._g~h~am.....__ _ _ _ entered on the of July 29th day 1935_ , in the matter of the State Commission on Conservation and Development v _ __ __C~a~s_s_a_n_dr ~ a_L_a_w_s _o_n_A_t_k_i_n_s____ and others, being full and complete settlement for the tract of land known in said proceeding as #_ 7 _ 6 _ __ Sign original and duplicate and return to the Treasurer of Virginia. s5 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context haney-j-k.pdf Title A name given to the resource Haney, J. K. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Swift Run Gap Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 76 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Haney https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/bb2e3f9b7a1b31e061ecbbe44cb5faf5.pdf dc42fa749744110fd4f79c65472fdcdd PDF Text Text \ \ \ ROCKINGHAM COUNTY \ NAME OF CLAIMANT #106 - Gratton, Francis R . Number of Acres: 87½ Location: Roads: Swift Run . Entirely within the Park area . Spotsv,ood Trail . 2½ miles to Elkton, nearest shipping point . Soil: Sandy l oam, slope type , fairly smooth ; gentle slopes,s . w . and N. E . exposures , not much depth of fertility . The grazing land is practi c ally level and looks to have a fair depth of fertility . History of Tract and condition of timber: Most of the merchantable timber has been removed from this t r act , the remaining stand consists of s?rubby short leaf pine and a very small a,ount of scnub oaks . Improvements: None . Acreage and value of types: · Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 61½ @ $5 . 00 $307 . 50 25 . 00 350 . 00 15 . 00 180 . 00 $837 . 50 Cove: Grazing Land: 14 Fields Restocking: -- 12 @ 87½ Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 837 .so Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 20 . 00 20 . 00 Value of Wood: $ 184 .so Value per acre for tract: $ 184 . 50 - --.,$1042 . 00 11 . 90 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ None . --~=-·----~~ - m,..,.__.,,t;l.;;.;;;.__!_CLERK �ROCKINGHP.JvI COON NAME OF CLAIMANT #106 - a - Gratton, Francis R. Number of Acres: 180 Location: Roads: Swift Run, U. S . Positions 75 AA - 76-77 and 83 . withln the Park ares . Entirmly Spotswood Trail, hard surface , 2 miles hard surface to Elkton, nearest shipping point . Sandy loam, slope type, with a fair depth of fertility on the Soil: lower part; on the upper part the soil is much thin~Dr . The entire tract is covered with small loose rocks, no outc~opsi the tillable land is in a very good state of cultivation . History of Tract and condition of timber: Most of the merchantable saw timber has been removed from this tract . The remaining stand consists of small scrubby oaks and short leaf pine . Improvements: See reverse side for improvements . Acreage and value of types: Types Total Value Value per acre Acreage Ridge: 97 @ $5 . 00 $485 . 00 Fields Restocking:-- 22 @ 15 . 00 330.00 Cultivated Land: 61 @ 35 . 00 2135 . 00 $2950 . 00 Slope: Cove: Grazing Land: 180 Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 2950 .oo Value of Improvements: $ 1090 . oo 1090 . 00 125 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ 125 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ 40 . 00 Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 40 . 00 Value of Wood: $ 390 . 00 --------- 390 . 00 $4595.00 Value per acre for tract: $ 2 5 • 52 I Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ None . ~ ~ . ' - CLERK 10 �Continue d from neverse side-IMPROVE?1IENTS: DYffiLLING HOUSE-- - -Frame, 16x28 1 , L-14xl5 xl0', 5 rooms, 2 story, ceiled, conditio n fair; occupied by tenant. Spring water supply. Foundat ion solid. Cellar-1 0xl2 1 • ------BA RN----Frame, 14xl0xl0 1 , shingle roof, conditio n fair--- -MEAT HCXJSE---F'ra.""lle, 10xl0xl0 1 , shingle roof, conditio n fair.---- --HEN HOLSE-- --Log, 16xl5xl0 1 , shingle roof, conditi~ n poor. -------GRANARY-- ---Fram e, 6xl6xl0 ', Metal roof, conditio n fair. D,.ELLING -----Log and frame, 24x25 1 , 3 rooms, ceiled, Porch 7xl2', l½ story, shingled roof, condition fair. OIJ) BARN--- --Frame, 28x28xl2 1 , shingle roof, poor condition. �Claim oL_ Mrs._ Frances_ R. _Grattan________ ---------------- ---------------- ----1829 , At Law. . · N o. ________ Coun t y, v·1rgmia, · Rockingham ----------. ·t Cour t of ---------------I n th e C1rcm The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs._ Cassandra _Lawson_ Atkins ___et al _, ----------------- ----------------- 52, 561 acres · · Def en dan t s. . Rockingham______ _______ count y, v·irgmia, more or 1ess, of 1an d m_______________ The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court 0LJJ9_~~.t:r:!g!J._~Ill___________ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is __ .lr:r!i-JlC~JLR._.__ Gr_att_atJ._________________________________________ _ My post office address is __ _2_Q6__Canm.b~_]._l, __S_t~s1-~!;J_Ji~x:rJ_~QP.Al~,±'_g.__y~.!. ___ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about__.2_5.7__1/.2. ______ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements :__ .S..ix_..:CQ.9J!Ld_w:elli.I.1.g. .. _.h1.1rn .. _m.~c11_:iD.?__ §,b._e.d_. _______ _ ___stable Lg_rain_ house_ and_ other_ usual_ outbuildin_g_s ,_ orchard, __g_ra_£e- _vines_-.&c~- ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- ----- This land is located abouL_.o.ne______ miles from __ Elk.tnn___________________ Virginia, in the_S.tnne.wall ___ Magisterial District of said County. lying on both sides of Snottswood Trail Route :H: 17_., . . h . · · t h e f o11 owmg I cIaim rig t, tit1e, estate or mtere'St m the tract or parcel ot 1~na uescribed above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) -----------Sole-.o.wnex._..,._ una er__de.e.d._from.-G.eo .. _11 .. _..Grat.ta.n..-_.J.r .. _,--Tr...us.te.e .. _le.s.s.._2.3.._a.ur.es..._so.ld_Jlff_,__a.s.._s.a..t_.f_or_th_.b..e.l.o.YL .. _____________________________ _ The land owners adjacent to thEl aboy_e described tract or parcel of land are q,s follo,ws: Tract~ E. Tract*~ North..Earl_D__.__F..o.gl.e.. ____________________ -Ed.War.d-.Hen sJ.e¥------------- ------SouthJ{§._t.e_.M. ... _.G._r:e.r1-dl.e_______ 1:rt-a-l ____ navil_D.avi.s.. .. __e_t __a_i~+---------- East __c..L_.A .. _.D.a.:v.i.s~_J?a.r..k_.B.ound.ar~--- _M.ary__ J_L_La..W.§91l __________________ _ West_..Annie_L L_.Baug..her.L- -------------- _G_~_.T_~_D.av.:i.s.. ______________________ _ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year __________ in the following manner: __ _:sy__a_ e.e.d._ .fl:.om. _Ga.a. ... _.Q ... _.GJ:a.t.tan..- _.Jr .. -,--Txns..tae..,_ ...r e...co r.d.ecL ...in......Cl.ex.k-'..s- _ ___Qffic.a.. _o.f_ ..Ro~.ing-ham_ ..C.o unty_, __ya.._~_ Jre.b..~ _.a~_ 1.92 3...... _n_..__ B...__12..5_ pg._ ll8 ... I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $__ .ft+2..6.8.. ..0..Q____ I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $_ft.,Z6..8. ... 0.Q. ____ . I am the owner of_ ___ nn. _________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $_.....:xx:xxx_ _________ . (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks: ..E.aY..ad_.S..ta..t.e_hlghw.ay__ r.uns __thr.u._tb...e._p.rop..ar.:cy:_appr.o..ximate.l.i" __one_.mile._.:-__ s.tat.a.._pai.d_.m.e._.f.o.r_-2.~ll-a.c.±e.s._$)..55---50_,__ pJ..u.s_.fen.c.ing _c.o.st. _R.&Y~__ s.o.ld __Q.ff__ap.p.ro.x.ima.te.1¥_.2.3_.an.re.a_a"'ler.age__pr.ic.e_...a.vex._$4.Q ... D.O-y---_p_e.r ___acr_e. .. __ _Ha_"tle_ ...s.pent _.o...-..z: er. _$5.Do..._o~1y_i n. _impx o.v....e.me.n t.s.. _sine a __s aJ..e s...-- __ __the __tw.o..._pr...o.pa.r.tifilL...COllS.tLt:u.t.e..-a/- (eoiti~te remarks if necessary on the back). Witness my signature (or my name and , m~ttachcte re~ t~--5~_d-.;:;;-- --day ~~-------4~ -;f4eaz;?'~ -----oL_Rellruary________ , 193~. STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF __ _Ro..ckingham ___________ , To-wit: The undersigned hereby certifies that_ __ ..RranceJLR....--G.r.at..tan____________________ _ the above named claimant personally appeared before ho and made oath that the matters and things appearing in lfir above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, _ j__ thi., ____ 5_tlL ________ day oLF..abr.uar~- -- - -, 1rflif -- ,2...,-/ bj .3 / ~ &~ M~,-,~--~t @r M. Notary Public, ~~ P8ac~ @j~f ' C,:fjJ!,,/--------- f~ - ' .I. �Nice farm, well water ed, conv enien tly locat ed, near high schoo l, railro ad stati on etc., consi sting of some 70 acres more or less of good farmi ng land, which produ ces avera ge yield of crops , corn, whea t, rye, oats, hay &c., 188 acres of grazi ng and wood land, havin g an estim ated amoun t of saw timbe r 70,00 0 feet and 940 cords of wood, this grazi ng land is well and perm anent ly water ed, the prope rty also conta ins about 1 1/2 acre orcha rd, good fruit trees and grape vines . The build ings on this farm are well locat ed, on the highw ay, in a good state of repai r, and suffi cient for farm of this size. It is the opini on of the owner that the value s repre sente d here are not exces sive, and that she shoul d recei ve the sum of not less than $8,26 8.00, for said prope rty. filed in the Clerk's Office Rocking ham County, Va. c- Er-, u I · - - - -Clerk �County: ~ookingham L1ntrict: ci tonona ll ssossed ( oo . . b.ined with other tracts} Aoreage Claitned:257} VAlue Claimed: $8268.00 Location: Swift Run . Beed combined fl fl .1. :~ 8? . J Entirely within tho Fark a rou. tap s: None known. SOiJ. : )andy loam , slo, s . w. and N. E. The grazing land u fair depth of e typo, fairly smooth, gentle olo es, exposur,es, not much depth of fertility. is practio· lly level nnd lookn to he.ve fertility~ Spotsvood Trails point. Hoads: Hiotor;::: &f milen to Elkton, nonrest shtp: ing l,.ost of the meroho.ntable Timber has been re...ovcd from this tract, the romo.ining stan s consist of scrubby short lea" pine and a very sr:i-.11 ru ovnt of scrub oaks , ., 20 . oo t 4. 00 per L . about 500C d. ft (184 . 5C L . 00 rer ed.. 184.; eds. of fuel wood ~ l • 1 v204 . 50 ·'t.: , lmprovemo.IL.E.l. Value of land by types: T:f12~Slope - Graz i ng Jrr . Acreage 61 .c1 14 Value per acre \ '7. uo 35 . 00 10.00 12 ,, o ·al valtlc of land Tot.-'ll ;va.lu~ of 1mprovenents ':otal V EllUe of timb er To tal value of tract l " A.vero.e;e value per a ero x 304.t50 1 245 . 0 0 14 . 23 -- Th ia includes trc.ct #106 - c . 8 �\ county: Rockingham "istrict : Jtonoga ll rrs . Frances R. Gratta1:!_ Value Claimed: Location : ......- Deed Assesse d 181 . 109 Acreace Claimed: 257½ 8268, 00 $1500 . 00 • -PC If n : lS 1 J-;. • sold so.me 191.70 {1922) :~5500. 00 Swift Run . U. s. position s ?5 AA.- ?6- 77 and 83. Entirely within the Fark urea . ~ : None h.""llovm . Soil: Sandy loam , slope t,rpe, with a fair depth of fertilm. ty on the lower part , on the upper part the soil is much thinner . The entire Tract is covered with small loose rooks, no outcrop s, the tillable land is in a very good state of cultivat ion. Roo.ds : Spotswoo d Trail , hard surface, 2 ~iles hard surfnce to Elkton , nearest shipping point . ~;},...) from this Tract. womoved has timber suw table merchan History: i~ost of the and short oaks scrubby small of consist stands g The remainin . 00 pijr M. A4 , acres 97 on ft 000 , 10 about is there leaf pine, 40 . 00 ."388 . 00 '428 . 00 ' ""1 . 00 :per od . a.bout 388 eds . fuel wood el li;ng house, Frame l6x28x L 14xl5xlO , 5 rooms, Improvem ents : 2 story, coiled, eonditio n Fair, occupied by tenant, spring water supply, Value - -------- -------- -- ' 625.00 foundati on solid, ccllorl0 xl2 . Bar n , Frame l4x40xl0 , Shingle roof , Cond. 7air -- 150.00 1,.e t house , Frame lOxlOxlO , Shingle roof, cond. -----~~------~- ---------~---~----------Fair.-ho~ , Log 16xl5xlO , shingle roof, Conditio n Hen .=~1-;~~f:-~~;d:·;~;:;:a~~~~ri :·;:;;;;;.;·;;;i;;;10 :-~ Frame 24x25, 4 r ~~~, ~lled, bwelli C, Eog and story, shingle roof, cond. bair. 20.00 ~g: gg 250 . o ~ porch ?x12. lt 0.00 cond.10 poor roof, Dld Barn, Frame 28x28xl 2, Shingle '11190 . 00 Value of land by types: Total Vo.luo Valuo :eer acre oreage ~ ,?485.00 ·5.00 9? Slope o , ?. l.j. r./-0 L{o • i \r~.-00 61 Til lable Fr. 10.00 22 180 220.00 '?2S35 . 00 • If../ x -- Thio includes tract #106 . - I li - / ./ �~ County.i; Dist 1•ict: Rockingham Stonewall #106- Grattan, :;.rs. Frances P . N lfa tJ.e ,......._G:t>andi e _.,,, ,,,. ''' -LEGEHD: Gra zing Slope Fields rn.stocking Seo.le - 1 11 = 20 cha.ins SSo �- County: ·D istrict: r-\._ · #.)-06-a - Grattan, __ Mrs . Frances Rock.:i ngham Stone ,all 1 • • N , ~'·t,_ t II ~ II 7 • Cl ·l... ' " (~ :, /!. ... ......• ' 1/ t ~ - .. - • it ~ ~ I\ ·. ... ~ .. .. . . ... ~ <t " k ~ 1'.."'"- "> LEGEND: Slooe Tillable Fieldij restocking Scale - 1 20 chains = 551 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context gratton-francis-r.pdf Title A name given to the resource Gratton, Francis Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Swift Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 106, 106-a Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Gratton https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/a9dc42ecbefbb16bc5d33b80d9c85031.pdf 42990dfc713a0dce4294a4f313cf1d8f PDF Text Text ROCILNGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT # 1 07 - Grandle , Katie M. 35 Number of Acres: Swift Run . Location: Roads: Entirely within the Park area . It is two mil es to Ell{ton, via Spotswood Tr~ il . Sandy loam, slope type , good soil on the part along the Soil: creek . The upper part fairly good ; the Fe . is of fair depth and fertility . The entire tract is covered with small loose rock . Most of the saw timber has been reHistory of Tract and condition of timber: moved from this tract . 'l'he remaining stand consists of small scrub Pine and some second growth oaks and white pine . Improvements: Slaughter house , frame, 12x20 1 , 1- room, metal roof, condition fair-- - abandoned . Acreage and value of types: Types Total Value Value per acre Acreage Ridge: 30 @ $5 . 00 $150 . 00 Fields Restocking : 3 @ 20 . 00 60 . 00 Cultivated Land: -- 2 @ 50 . 00 100 . 00 $310 . 00 Slope: Cove: Grazing Land: 35 . Orchard: Minerals: 100 . 00 V~ueofLand: $ 310 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 100 • 00 Value of Orchard: $ 65 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 65 . oo 100 . 00 i575.00 Value of Wood: $ 100 .oo Value per acre for tract: $ 16 • 42 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ None - ~ - / ffed: CLERK II �Claim of__ Ka tie_ M. _ Grandle ------------------------------------------------ ------In the Circuit Court of_J~9_q_l~jf1_g.g~~------------County, Virginia, No.1Ji2_9___ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. ___ Cas.saJ1dra _Ul,wson _AtkinsJ_ et al. l . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 52 _. 561 acres ______________________________ ---------------------------------------more or less, of land in __]:J9.9_tgi_gb,~_rn _____________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ __:B-_9_~~~~~1!1__________ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is ___ .Ka..t.i.e_J~~-.G.randl.a ____________ ________ __ ____________________ _ My post office address is __ K_e_ez_e_l:t;.9_vn:t .R.__.F_.__.n_..__.Y_ir_gin.ia. _______________ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about__..3._5 _____________ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements :_____Sla.ugh.te.r..._housa_1.2_ __ x_ __ 2.(l,-_.9J~.ID~At___________ _ _§..n.d_.f_::ram.e_.c_Qns_tru.c.tiiln~--w.Lth_m..etal_r...o.o.:f.._ _________________ ________________ _ This land is located about__J;Yl.Q ______ miles from ___ Elk.:ton_______________ --=--- Virginia, in the..S.t.onew.all... ___ Magisterial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) _S.9J.~__QW11JU~--~-®dex_d_e_ed_.f.r.o.m_lliicar_.n.... _G.randle_,__d.u.ly_~e.c.oxd..ed-------_in _t h e_ Clerk I s Office _o fR-0ckin__gham Coun ty-+-_Y:i.r.giui.a. _________________ _ The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North_ Franoea__R.,__G.mt.ta.n... ____________________________ __________________ _____ _ South_ G• _ Thoma s Davis ----------------------- --------- - -------- - - ------------East __ Hensley __et al.)._ _______________________________________________________ _ West__ Fr ances _R. __ Grat tan _and _Spottswood_..T.ra.i.1_ # l.7 __________ i:9 2.9 . I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year _1..9-28__ onn the following manner: _______ _B_y_il_~9_9,__ ;fr_Q.ID__Qs9Jlr_..n.~_..Grandl.e.~_.r.eo.o.xd.ed_J_n_..the_file..rk!.s. ________ _ Qffice__a:f....Ro.c.king.ha.m-Cou.n.t.y~--Va....---------- -----------------------------------I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $_2. • .5_QO_._QQ _____ . I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the imnro;1J;ements_ thereon is Si..2.~5..0.0....Q.O _____ • rur nanu~ing-~resn mea t, located in I am the owner of-~- _s_ t.o.r.e _.houae/esxmx:kmidxKij~~~)d ;~ El k to n , Y8i,mxei odxbami::ibtat:ihci:o~x<mt.i.i:tt~~x, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $_.6.0.0.. .0.Q _________ . (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the · tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks: _.T.h.e_.abo..:re.-.J.an d--i .s..-lo..cat-ed--0-B--Spe-t-tswo-ed--TrJ.\.il... _=/l- l'Z _, __ ____ __a.b..Qu..t.._t'lm_m.lle.s._f.r.om..xailwS-¥-S-tat....ion -,--Elkto.n_Tu .. , ___ M¥_ _pJ...an_s__ fQr __ _ _tb.is._;pr_op..ar_:cy._w.as.,-..and..-i.s..,__.t..u_:u.s.e __the_....sl..aug.h.ter.....h.o_use...._in._conjunat,.._ i on with_ st oi:e _p.x oJtfl r.:t¥ _in_ .Elk.:t.on..,_ ...and._ t.o. _m,anu£ac t..ur e. __ j;n~ __t:iID.P_~:r__ into_lumber_an d wo.Qd_. ___ _(over..l _____ (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). ofJJfs_s_:~-'.~~:~~r~8Pame a:~ ::a:~~;L~~~~~~:~ 1 STATE OF VIRGINIA, ~ OF_VY.l: ____ ___ _ ---, To-wit. The undersigned hereby certifies that_ ~-:h1L_ . . ,___________ _ the above named claimant personally appeared before~and mag.e oath that the matters and things appearing in his above answer are true to the best of Ni.knowledge and belief, this_jj__~ ~/13/3 / _________ day of.JztL-------- --, 193d. ___ lltw, {!_, p. :; •_,_______ _ ~~~~~or �county: Rockingham Distric~: J tonew 11 - 0_7_·____Ka_t__i e' M. Crandle -.f·1_ , tag ~~:reage Cl aimed: Value Cl aimed: 35 A. H ~2600 . 49 Deed 20 . 160 .:\. sse~:rned 20 . 160 ,, 14 ,,!mj' $1 .00 all on l., 28 2 14 •100 recol'd AHEA: 14 A. Loe tion: ~3wift Run, I.ups: None kil,..i'Wll o '"!oil: :P:ntirely within 1 ark area. !Jandy loam, slo· e tJ!' e • ,good s o il on· t . c 110.rt o.lo:nr: the c re ek. The ur,~, cr po.rt fo.irly good, the Fe. is of fair dorth and fertility. ':. he entire tract is covered \71 th small loose rook . It is two miles to '!:!lkton :Via tho i.)J~Otsnood TraiJ.. Roads: l!istory: :· .,.~ I 0.,t of the saw timber has been remove from thin tract . ~1\e remaining stands consist of small ncrub pine nnd dome second growth, oa. ·s and lhi upine C5 . oc p er :t.' ,. fJ65 . 00 13.0 , o~~ Bd. ft . on 26 A. o 1. 00 per c • 10~.oc 104 ads. fuel wood on 26 A. .' l69.00 Ir.mrovem.onts: Val'l_e or TyJe 1lo.,e 'rillo.ble l"'i;\:. Fr . Slaughter 11ouo , fro.me 12JC20, l room, met?..l roof, cond.'.. tion fn.ir, abandoned. Value ·?5 . 00 land by wes: .3-6 ' creace -2-6 .\. 2 3 ~ otel Value .P.§1' uorc 1J $30 , 00 12.00 60 . 0 36 . 00 \,304 . 6Ci V'.llue ·2oa:oo ~.8 . 00 , 0 I e.,e Total value of land Total value of improvmnants ,,t; :-;304 . 00 ?5 . 00 / 1. ~ ' ,_,e '( Tot 1 va lue of timber lSU . OO Total vo.lue of tract 548 . 00 Average value per acre .j3 2- . Y.~ u 0 ~Cc kj'L ' �County: District: Rock ingham Stonewall #107• Gr&ndle, Ka.tie M. N Mrs. Franci s R. Gratten ----- / I s. -.... . ._ l:r Francis R. Gratten LEGEND: Tillable Slope Fields restocking Scale - l" = 20 chains 55Z - - - -- - - - - - � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context grandle-katie-m.pdf Title A name given to the resource Grandle, Katie M. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Swift Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 107 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Grandle https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/83010a446aa8be6988a844c9db2bf96b.pdf 3688a92c0a6eb6f474cbc669bcda7dea PDF Text Text ( \ 01• ~ ~~a:e 6bi; ~!:t~~:t::--z~-~;~~~;.--~;;~i~i~:-;:_________:-~~-~~~: ,f • The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs, _____________________________________________________________________________ _ /'l /.' :~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~-~- zZi'J~;A~~~~~;~~~;:~~-;i~~~-~~;~~~~~~~------- The undersigned, in answer to the Retition of the State Commission on CoI).servation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing oJ- aid petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit ---County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this Court oL~..c.Ll~.£?-~ 1 as h:ya:s:: ~.·:_ s;i~ ~nd»~------------------------ ----------- _ IL . ,/'' : ; ~ My post office address 1~___ 1 __ ~_.l.fl-rl..~----------------------------------- ------ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing a~out_ ~ ______________ acres, on which th~r7 are the following buildings and improyements:c J . _ ~7,_{2-:_~ - - ~~ ------ -~ J; __ f _/_a~--~ i;C--L d _~ .J ~ "-,, - - - - - t 4_ ,7/_ r ----------- This la.IJ.Q__ is located abouL_..,.,2'.:' _______ miles- froma ( _ ~---------------Virginia,- in th~~Magisterial District of said County. I claim the following rlght, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) ~ ti--~ /fi-,:,d,- ;H.& - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ __________ ..L_ J/K ________ ----------------------------- ::t~~en¼:~;::~scribed tract-or parcel of land are as fol ows: East---~ » H'. West /?<-~ ---------------------------- --------------- ~,_w~1-..A.. __ _ J / ~_L ___________________________________________ _ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year _)~L f::/_ ___ in the , following manner: I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $/11.DJJ._~f}_ ______ , I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $/dM:!...~ ----~--I am the owner oL _______________ acres of land adjoining the· above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $------------------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practkable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks·------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). "'\_yitness my signature (or my name and mark attached hereto) thi$_.z!::~~ ------day _L _=t2_z.b_L __ ':. _~_<J:::£:::f:Lk_?_< ____________ _ of_.,_ _________________ , 193/--· STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF __________________________ , To-wit: The undersigned hereby certifies that_ ______________________________________________ _ the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters and things appearing in his above 1'.tnswer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, "' this __________ ~______ day of_ __________-,--~----, 193L _. z.' Clerk of the Court, or Special Investigator or ;he,..£.e.a,ce. N otw Public-, or Jui.tice 20 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context gooden-john.pdf Title A name given to the resource Gooden, John Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Not Specified Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): Not Specified Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Gooden https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/5e63a1ea3a71d4666494a77e2c989e2a.pdf b3807f9df4dfeb12331a3e5d92ff5fa5 PDF Text Text NAME OF CLAIMANT Number of Acres: 5 Location: :reel<: Run . Roads: Fo.1~ :1ile3 viu :irt rot..J to ?ort Re,_ublic , th~ neurest s:ri.ppinc poiat. Soil: ..;,lo)e t~rpe, sL.nd.'' lo ....m, r.1oder· to slopes. =ntirely ~ i-'c~1in t11' ::._>1-rl: t.trec.. , t bl .... . b , b 11 :n.ei'c11· n r.... e sc111 ,,11 ~r 1lc...s een removed from t11is trc1ct. ':',1e reamini "lG st· nd c s:11;.ll ~L.rdrloods ~~v1 been k~lled by L recent ~evere urn. History of Tract and condition of timber: _. _ Improvements: .L ~i0'18 • Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 5 ~--- 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: 10 . 00 Value of Land: $ 3;5. 00 'J(.55 .oo Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ 10 • OJ Value per acre for tract: $ 7 • 0 0 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ • ~ - ~_cL_;_- �r county: Iockin~h District; Stone 282 m. neek: ort Valu " 85.00 neure t ahippin point. o ere te sloes. nAndy lo ll me"'chan'tablo aa t '..he remaininp· stand ot recent ~evor h 1rn. ber has all one or lend by t:,nes: Value t>er ttcre Acreal!e lo e ot l v iuo or land .i.:o t l value ot tract er ge val.ue per ncre 1~21 own • opub ic th History ,E!21'0VetJ,ent : 5 Deed 5 None ices, co~1ter Slope type. 50w ·ntir ly within the Park area. . oads: 4 miles via dirt road to Soil: Gl 30.00 " Value Cl ir-1ed: I 1c .u·b n. Asaess~d Acreage Cl, iwed: Location: L. l rntal value 15.00 5 15 15.0v • 0 �"32- • Gl a s govr, L. B. County: Distric~: Rockingham Stoneiall N LEGEND: Slopff Scale - 1 1 • 20 chains �( ,~ \ 01• Claim of _____ ' • ,f 7/- Y'-::i'f,---=F~ fL-<--:L ___________________________________ _ ____ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. ,~ -k ~ The State Commission on Conservfttion and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. _____________________________________________________________________________ _ ~ In the Cil-cuit Court o f i ~ /'l /.' :~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~-~- zii'J~;A~~~~~;~~~;:~~-;i~~~-~~;~~~~~~~------- The undersigned, in answer to the Ret1tion of the State Commission on CoI).servation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing oJ- aid petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit ---County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this Court oL ~..c.Ll~.£?-~ 1 as h:ya:s:: ~.-:_ s;i~ ~ nd» ~----------------------------------/ - ' :;-;_ _ / 1. My post office address i~ ___ L____ _/.fl-rl..~ ----------------------------------------I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing a~ouL ~ ______________ acres, on which th~r7 are the following buildings and improyements:c . J - ~7,_Q-:_~--~ ------ -~ J; __ f _/_a~--~ i;C--L d _'°? .J ~ /1-.,, - - - - - t 4 _ ,;;_ ~ r ----------- This la.IJ.Q__ is located abouL_..,.,2'.:' _______ miles- from~ ~-------- -------Virginia,- in th~ ~Magisterial District of said County. I claim the following rlght, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) ------------------------------- ~ -~ - ~ -~ - _d_' ~ --e1:~<;._ ____________________________ _ The land own~r~--a , acent to the ab_,9ve described tract or parcel of land are as follows: d - - - ( j _ ~ ------ - ------------------------------------North £ ____ ·___ {____/ ____ p._q_c-/{ -----------------------------------------------South - ~ East --~~.,,,,z,,,2'2+-r _pc.a...,.:L-,:1>-- __________________________________ ________ _ West ~,_w~1-..A.. __ .Jf~_L___________________________________________ _ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year _)~Lij_ ___ in the , following manner: I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $/11.DJl_~f}________ I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $/dM,:~----~--I am the owner oL ______________ _acres of land adjoining the· above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $------------------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practkable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks·-------------------------------------- ---------------- - ------ ------------- - - ------------------------------------------ (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). 'Yitness my signature (or my name and mark attached hereto) thi$_.d::~~------day __( _=t:!_Lh_L __ ~-~-<J:::f:::f:Lk-_LL ____________ _ of __ ~--=--------------, 193/ --· STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF ___________ _______________ , To-wit: The undersigned hereby certifies that_ ______________________________________________ _ the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters and things appearing in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, "' _ this __________ ~______ day of_ __ ________-,--~----, 193L _. z.' Clerk o-:f. the Court, or Special Investigator or Notw Publie, OF Juaice ~wee. 20 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context glasgow-l-b.pdf Title A name given to the resource Glasgow, L. S. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Neck Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 282 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Glasgow https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/f73a0d2684e6aa1dbc06116ed52af4b2.pdf f48b759b805790a545fbca73a0e9e5e1 PDF Text Text NAME OF CLAIMANT rrZud - Gibtoo ..1, :r. :r. ---- F. Number of Acres: 10 Location: Roads: Soil: - Un on .i..ort .Rf;_:_n'lic Rou.d • .... L ... tr-.1ct is entir il::,· 1i.".:.li.~r. -'.; 1 1e :,.__T>k ..... :reu . Four miles to Isl~nc' :.-ord over c>.o unt~ rocd . .s . . . ..,dy lo . . . L o·"" m.edium dept: ,nd fertility . History of Tract and condition of timber: ,, . - 1s tract f l~nd ~ s ..... 11 in Cltltiv tio i. ... ·-id u. __ Jet...r·s to be ,,n c.ver""'" ·e t·rp of soil ~or this loculit • Improvements: ....,-:ell i.}1.Q: : :::"r..,: e, 14~:·20', a r)o21s, ki tc:""!.en 1'3xl2', ......; er roo+>, ·,ric·: fl'1e::, 1~ sto ,. , C3ilel, :f~ir condi-::;;011 , oc.::1_Jied ~' o ..-ner, Hell w... ter s _:i_pl~ , ,olid found~\tion , cel:~r 7x7', stone w~ll . 3r ro,./'', "a_-;_r condi t lo:-;. . Jt~ble : ..:1r0.me, 11Yl3', ... "', poor condition . :'r· ·e , G:x:7' , ""'' ::ier :v1 '10 1s e : J n ouse : Fr'-'- 1 , 7':11' , paper r0 "", "air conclt"';ion . 11:1,.,, j_)O:)r co·. 1 it·o, . 0 ,, Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value '11'2.; . 0C .. 250 . 00 Ridge: Slope: Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: 10 Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ .2::50 . 00 G...i . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 3G ~j . 0 0 Value of Orchard: $ .2~ . '.)Q Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ :::i • 00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ ... Toil-.) . 23 . 0 .,,,5,.cO . 00 �Claim of_ __ Jamsis._J. _G.i_bson_______________________________________________________ _ In the Circuit Court of_ ____ R._q_cl_l~fJem.. ________ County, Virginia, No._i.?_~~--, At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs._Baseandra_ Lawson Adkinsi._ et _als_, and._52._561_ acres ___________ - · · D ef endant s. k, ·~__7°/.,<'1171 re(!.c ____ _,_____ _______ coun t y, v·1rgmia, · ______ more or 1ess, of l an d m on Conservation and DeCommission The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State condemnation awarded of notice the to response in and Virginia, of velopment of the State upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_l?_'l.!!-l:!.J_.._1...~'--l-,_q_-r_7.1_ _____ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said _notice. My name is __ Johne. :f.. o,.; /-os o 7-, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - My post office address is _ _E?!Is~~-Y:!___ ~ ___,X_!::_;_t.;J,_ ___________________________ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought acres, on which there are the following to be condemned, containing about_ ____ [Q. __________ / . --lf_r:~-~T.!T:~--- -----------buildings and improvements :____./2'tt.~l!!..'-7-'/.::--~~ -k 2._~ ~~ -' .s7~ , _/9 6y /P,-.y H~'-' ~ ~ _ ""_ e..t "- e lie -,.,/~ 11~ve -,·_/:a,' I, 1, 9: _We// ._q.R,,f_ ____ _ " / 10 A_ u-,1 d€ 7 • _fe n l!!.e ________________ _________ _ ________________ _____ _ ____ __ _ _ _ _ This land is located about_ __ _lf-______ miles from __ 1~L<!:!!..~..E.!:_ 7-~---------- Virginia, in the_~! ; .J.!~-~t<?!L __ Magisterial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or ~ parcel of land described above.) ------ r CJ 77'7 - fj eJ!e - () w.,:e,r_ C) /,-,., "i__ w I Tf., - 7ny . ., '111, -- e -- ' w '77., _I ,e~ -r, .. ,., l~l-e _f;tfe ---------------- ----------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----- The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,ws: North ___e I c n· te n 6 _ (JLf/P...LP -- -- ---- ------ --- - - - ---- ------ ---- -------- ---- - - - --- -South ___ B;_.9 <>u .,. v €!;j __________________________________________________________ _ East ___ El.1!:f- __ S L.I 7 - 'l e:f ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------West_ __ e I 01 -,- E' -,., e _Gr,i~-ser,,. ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the yearl'll.J?J' ....:~_in the · _ following manner: _ _____________ /4..'" wi )'-7-_ 7-~-e_ 0,.. /'( _F,-c,7-, 77 ro l _ __ 'Jg~ .-J5' L4 _7 ~ c /-, c 1se I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $_/._J:<;tQ.__ ________ I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $-l.~-~£.i.. ________ . ________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or I am the owner of__~ parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the pro-- ---------· posed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $- -~ (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to _ this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). g:,7_Cl1'11'3L(71/·_ ~11nu,;n ~ Remarks· ___ _7l-ri11lr _1hc1l·_I Clr11q1,fred ; 1 ,;,.,,,-cslecl'\ftf a L.#ld y; e lo/ ,·.,,_,~1 le7· e sl-_c171_c 1n1 0'-171/- J enn ~nnu~I/~_ r _7, e E , ' 7· <>:rn s cu ' d -10--,- op, e ..,.,.:J- _:r.._ ce,v_, I, "'-. .,..fl-- ---------- ------ ----- --- - - ------ -- ---- ----------- - --- ---------- ---- ---- - ---------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). Witness my signature (or my name and mark attached~h is ___ _/_t_!!:!______ day of __F e..l~y ---------, 193,. -1~~~~~1.,x~ ~-~---------- ------- STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF__!i_~_tt.__ _f_!.Il<,jb. __Tl ! ___ _•___ , To-wit: The undersigned hereby certifies that_ ___J :C:::l.7.1:!_'?;-~__:[;__ fir!.b__~!?__!.?. ___ _______ __ ______ the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters ow dge and belief, and thin7h appearing in his above answer are true to the best of hi this ___[({.____________ day of_%.~'!-J-1-1.;J_f__--, ½980. l7 �County : District: Rock1nghati Stonewall #262 - J . J . & F . Gibson creage Clair.1ed: 10 Value Clo.ir.1ed : Location: Assessed : 1500. 00 Deed: Assessed : Deed: rec: : 10 · • One nile south of Big Run on Port Republic road. This troot is entirely within the Park ·area . Inounbrnncea, counter olaina or laps: Soil: Sandy loat.1 of nediun depth and fertility . Roado: Four oileo to Island Ford over county road. History of tract and condition of tiober: Thia tract of land ia all in cultivation a nd appears to be an a verage t ype of soil for this locality . Inprovonents: Dwelling: Fra.ne 1 l4x20' ~ 3 . roone, kitchen 12xl2' , paper roof , brick flues , lt story, oeiled, f air condition, occupied by owner, well water supply, solid foundation. cellar 7x7'• s•eBe rall ----- 175. 00 Stable: Fra1:1e 1 llxl3', p per roof, fair condition -15. 00 Corn houoe: Frane, 6x7', paper roof, poor condition----5 . 00 Hon house: Frace, 7xll', pa.per roof, fair condition ----5 . 00 Bug5y ahed: l4xl4', poor condition -5 . 00 ?;205 . 00 Value of land by types: Type F o Acreage 10 Totnl value of land Total value of inprovecents Total value of orchard Total value of tract vorage value per ncre Value ier acre 25 . 00 . 250 . 00 205 . 00 50 . 00 6505 .oo ~ 50 . 50 Total Value :,250 . 00 �' County: D1s:br1ct: Rockingham Stone all #262• J. J . & F. Gibson Cupp • ~EGEND! Tillable Scale - 1": 20 chains 31) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context gibson-j-j-and-f.pdf Title A name given to the resource Gibson, J. J. & F. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: One mile south of Big Run on Port Republic Road Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 262 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Gibson https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/bbd3b22667ad708093c7d6c71c96a06d.pdf 57c7c703f96e7741dc6531c8ea5f8851 PDF Text Text NAME OF CLAIMANT u~ u6 - Cibson , 1-rence Number of Acres: lo Location: Roads:- Four miles south of Isb.rnl Ford on Port Re Jnblic =o... d • .Znt ire 1· ·-1 thin the P..1rk are:1. Four niles over c ounLy roe..( to Islund For<J. . Soil: History of Tract and condition of timber: .,,.11 sc. tiLbe:rl "'"' b ;en rer:oved ro· 1 o"'.' t:1is tract leav_;, 1; on2.~~ u.i)out ~O t;'1._, .• ooned Jo::--ti) · cords o~ ~~-1 .)d . Improvements: J'r .... r-ie dwellin0 : 1 4x24xl3', kitc·w:1 8xll', J :·oms, net-c.,l roof, 8 s"-or , Ct::iled :i'·~lls, ~L.ir co·1,: ;_ -:icn, oco'1!)ied b:r o,ner, nell ~v 1t-3r St_) ,l", ...,oli. · "·11n"' ttion. :?r~1 8 st . . bL; nrl 'p'1 ' - ·--;e: Gxl}', ~~:)er ro--·" . 3C trees ~t 12 years, ~ood confi~ion. Acreage and value of types: Types Total Value Value per acre Acreage Ridge: Slope: y;:.> . 00 3 ,1.3.00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: 4 \bl 13.0 G0 . 00 Cultivated Land: 3 \:.:, 3.5 . 00 7J . 00 ;1.30 . 0 Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 1.:30 . 00 Value of Improvements: $t 10 • 0 0 (10 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ '7 -5. 00 Value of Minerals: $ 10 . 0G ,,64.:-.i. 00 Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $1J . OJ Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $C,' . )C Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ -~ ;• 73 �7 Co ,y: Rock1nghom tonew ll .vi strict: '263 Cl, rence Gibson : Acr qge (;l1:1im Velue ClniJ ed: Assessed l:) A Deed " 150.00 " ~o:rd on ort .epubl1c road. 4 rail~a south of l3lan within . the ark rea Location: Acq ired 20 ere 1907 tor 106 ot which the 10 acre tract is e pert Entirely ...a.pa: , Soil: f'.'a .dy clay lo . of ave:rn c i 4 miles over co mty r Roads: 0 d to Isl r,nd ..itchen 8 x 11. roo1 a 5, e dwcllin,'Y 14. x 24 x 10, l!' · r condition. nlls. 2 st ry, cei ed !'1 t<il roof', foun<lation cl ell. tl:31" supplycc .:,i d b, owner, :.-r Improve. en ts: Fr~ est ble 30 tree or n d hen hou e 12 YJ. • V 1110 -r)l,r acre 5.0025 .00 !3 F C 3 12 . 0 -1... 10 Tot~ l vnluo " " !t " or It land orchurd " ir Jrov en ts ' ti ber tract " " ~verage valie per a.er tt 6 x 16 per root. 138 75 265 . 15 493. 00 '9.ZO 2u0.00 l!:J.00 265.00 75.00 oo:i condi t 'i. o y tyPes: orHt e l®d ~ zie ..-.ilopa It .Jo ,ll aw timber has een re oved froM the wooded ,ortion of this tract f\15.00 el ood valu d t ?5¢ -.,or c-d. eavin, only E bout 20 eds. 01. liiRtorz: Value th Anc• fertili t~, Total �• J 30o - Cl,re~c GibsJr . Co 1nuy : • odci:i :1-..n ~i strict : St N · -=: . =: i...,U .Je t-. 3 - ..:1i~Llu- 1~ ~\..., Ci .. l :""1~ Gibson 1 o.~11 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context gibson-clarence.pdf Title A name given to the resource Gibson, Clarence Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Not Specified Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 263 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Gibson https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/dba310827120c360e0d5b83ef3891b3b.pdf 6c334acec5ee0c7f0fa135fa6c356442 PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #163 - Gibb ons , Emma V. Number of Acres: Location: 110 One mile east of Yanc ey , east of Gap Run . the Park area . Roads: Two mile s to Islan d Ford over oo unty road . Soil: Slop e type . Enti rely with in clea red land on this trac t. History of Tract and condition of timber: Ther e is no t is in wooded land and has been heav ily cut This enti re trac ated ly . All of the over a nd a port ion has been burn ed over repe ing noth ing saw timb er has been remo ved from this trac t, leav exce pt fuelw ood . Tota l of 700 cord s . Improvements: N01TE . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Total Value Value per acre Ridge: Slope: . 110 $385 . 00 $3 . 50 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Resto cking : 175 . 00 $560 .00 . Culti vated Land : Orch ard: Mine rals: Value of Land : $ 385 . 00 Value of Impro veme nts: $ Value of Orcha rd·: $ Value of Mine rals: $ Value of Fruit : $ Value of Timb er: $ Value of Wood: $ 175 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $5 . 09 Incid ental dama ges arisin g from the takin g of this tract: $ NONE . ~ ~ & • CLERK. �REPORr: ON ':':'H:::i: 1 ..CREAGE of the 7 . GIBBo:rs T.....CT //163 ., The deed for this tract of land states that it"conta ins about 124i acres" , but does not Give any descrip tion, other than u gener~l descriy tion of the locality and a statemen t that it is the residue of a tract of 1 nd once owned by 'H . B. Yancey and known as the "Te t l Land. 0 In our survey of this tract we did not make a complete traverse of the boundary , but did locate by ties to the park bo1mdary 1:.. nd to road intersec tions located by the U. s. G. s. , ull of the boundar ies of tha tract except the S . W. , ~nd as this is a straight clos inc li '18, I fee 1 th(,. t survey of the tract. ,/8 have a reasonab ly complete The computed ucreage by this survey is 110 ucres, ~nd t~is is covered by the State's report . ~ti~~ Chief ~neinee r, Purk Service . �. ,, NAME OF CLAIMANT #230 - Gibbons , Emma v. Number of Acres: 120 Location: Hawksbill Creek near top of Blue Ridge and lies entirely within the Park area . Roads: Eleven miles to Elkton over seven miles of count road and four miles over Spotswood Trai 1 . Soil: Sandy clay loa:gi. History of Tract and condition of timber: The cleared land on this tract has been used for grazing purposes for many years . There is no sawtimber on the woodland . Improveme nts: Dwelling: Log , l5xl7' , 2 rooms, porch 6xl6' , shingle roof, stone flues , lk story, log finish, poor condition , occupied by tenant , kitchen, 2 rooms 15xl6xl2' . Old barn: Log l?x44xl2' , shingle roof , poor condition . fiiiJii : Spring hose : Log , 8xl0x6' , shingle roof , poor condition . Hen house: Log , 8xl0x6', shingle roof , poor condition . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 10 ~5 . 00 ~50 . 00 110 30 . 00 3300 . 00 3350 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: 120 Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: V~ueofLand : $ 3350 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 26 O. 00 Value of Orchard: $ 25 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ 260 . 00 Value of Timber: $ ValueofWoc d: $ 50 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 30 . 70 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NON,.;J . 25 . 00 50 . 00 ~3685 . 00 �Claim of_ 1Vlr s . _.l:!.mma V •__Gibbons __________________________________________________ _ ___ Count y, v·1rgmia, . . N o. _____~5. --, At Law. Rockingham . ·t Court of _______________________ I n the C1rcm The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, PetiGihb ons:,-...O. n.e~-.of - ..a.1w-u .t--l-~5--t e--1-43--dEH'--e-s---,------. t 10ner, vs. r.s..... _ , a._V. .. ___ _including_..c.: r_t_ain _miner.al_tlght.s__ ______________________________________ ____ _ more or less, of land in ____ .fl.ocltiri_g_haru. __________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ _____ijg_cJ£j.p_g)J..?-11.! _______ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is __ Mr:sJ_....Emm.a_J[L_.GibhQD.S.. ______________________________________ _ My post office address is __ E.l.tt.9_!1~--Y~~--------------- ------------------------1 claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_l13_f2. _j:;_Q_J.±3 ____ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements :.E.r.o_p,er_cy __C.QD..S..i.s_t_5 _.9..f _..s_avL _t.imn.er__lancL.and_~01mg t.imber_.,__also mineral _ de:posi ts _of _manganese _ of _highestp1.u:ety ,.._ n1ining ~haft_ lowered _and _ de:posi ts _of _manganese _ definitely _d.etermin_ed i ____ __ _ This land is located about_ _____l _____ miles from _____ _yancey________________ Virginia, in he ____ St. o.ne.Ymll _Magistetial District of said County. <.:,,- I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land desen e above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and · joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, Id set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or he s parcel of 1-ru\d described above.) J_Qint_.PJrn.e. _.YL:lth._daJ.igti_t.er__-=_!"1...r.s..,_....Maty_J2:o.a..p_ ...,...._Jr_.... ,,_..an.o...._s.on_=----------The land ownerS& jacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North __ ..Har.ns ~ - . a n ...Eiµ.e __ ______________________________________________ _ South __ Gib.bons _Lan.d_ ____ ~ ------------------------ ------------------------ ----East ___ .B..y-..Sur.JLey -------------- ---- ------------------------ ------------------West___ J .. _JiL_..8.ip.a _ .. ---- ~ -----=---- ------------------------ ----------------I acquired my right, title, estate or i tere t t this property about the year ____ ______ in the following manner: e.r.!....s._.e.s.ta.t.e=.G.ap.t.. ..13......B .. Y..an.c..e.y__ _ P_~g_p_e:r.t.Y-_lJ_,rr.t_l..;1 __:l1Jb._~;i._t_eg_.f.r.PJU_ -- I claim that the total value of this tract or reel of land with the improvements theree of my right, title, estate or interest, on is $..5.00D.. .. O.D.._______ I claim that the tota in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $____ .5..QOD_....OD___ _ I am the owner of_ __ .2_43_________ acres of land ald§~~1fg<.t<~ olv~~~:xn;~ x x~m~}mi.1bdmtdying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $-------- ----------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks: 'l'.t1j,_~_Jv_QQ9.J.q.D_Q_j.....s__.o.w.n.e.d._a.nc1 _Q.,per.......tfili_in_Cfilln.e.ction.. _~ri.th ___ r i Ve r _bott.9_rg_J_~~~--~t__i9-1lQi:;y,_ __y_g_,_:-_c;,Q.9JJ:t__QD.s;__wj__l __Qi~_t.an..t..L- - ed.O.ily____ _ ace c.S.~ib.le.......a:nd.-c;:.onv.eni.ent, -..J.Ai.ne;r.a-1- 4efX)-Si-t-s- o-.f.- maBg-£x-Be-&e --nro:y--be--of-- gi:ea..t._Y.alue..L________________________________________________________________ ________ _ ------------------------ --------------- - ---- (Continue remarks if necessary ~ e back). of_*;/z/:~:~~r1~3t my name ; nd :::~~~,t~~~:~ STA;;-u-; ;-;;;~INIA, C UNTY OF - - ~ ~ ~ - - - v ' ! ' o / w y ; : The undersigned hereby c tifies at_ ___ ~ ___ L · - ~ - ----the above named claimant perso all:¼ appeared before him and made oath that the matters nswer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, an_d thin~earing in his abo ~:~~4-=-------da y of~ t/~ /~J/ ~/6 - : : ~d!~~~~ 17 �Claim ofll-~cJ ~ f y du~ c/L.. ________________ . l! L:tJF ~1f_7f.__________ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. In the Circuit Court oL.d0____ of the State of Virginia, PetiDevelopment The State Commission on Conservation and tioner, vs, _____________________________________________________________________________ _ ~ -------------------. --..------------------------------------------ .-· I) ~ --County, V1rgmia, Defendants. more or less, of land m_/_lA}_ ________ ---~ The undersigned, in answer to the peti ion of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of s~id ~ ition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court oL ~ -~ ~-!).. _'1...~----- County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this a d to said notice. as his answer to saict p titi -------------------------------------------7 My name is.X. _ _ -. My post office address 1s--------------------------------------------- --------~-I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ __l1_8-_fz.,_ ___ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: ___________________________________________________________ _ co c.., - EE: ~ 0 -- -- 2.4 �~ ~o. Claim of~ A~ _IJ .,/1 ~.J( 'f'= ~-cf:,- ~~-~ -: _____________ _ At Law. In the Circmt Court of-1- t:&.& ½-~- -Cou nty, Virgmi a, No. ________ , a, PetiThe State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virgini _ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ tioner, vs. __________________________________________ _f~ __ County, Virginia~ Defend ants.--- ----more-o r less, of land in_&~~ ation and DeThe undersigned, in answer to the petitil of the State Commission on Conserv awarde d nation condem of notice the to e respons in and , velopment of the State of Virginia Circuit the upon the fl~ of laid peti1gm and published in accordance with the order of file this Court of_ ______~ _J;.: P__~_ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is ______ )( ____________ , _________ ~---- ------ ------ ------ --My post office address is __ jj___________ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought g to be condemned, contain ing about/ ~.&f_z_ _______ acres, on which th~re are the followin ___ _ buildings and improv ements: ________________________________________________________ -~--------:7---2!~-7~<:?::L __ r =~==========~~~~;~.-;~ : ~~~::i~~:~;~~~;; ~:~~~~~~~~ -li,°io ~ P'L/ 1 ~ ~ , . . / 4 . _ ?< in the tract or parcel of land dem~rest or estate title, 'right, g followin the I claim . or joint owner, scribed above: (In this space claiman t should say whethe r he is sole owner joint owner, or sole not is t claiman If owners. and if joint owner give names of the joint the tract or to or in has he interest or estate title, right, he should set out exactly what ~ J T~~--kY--~ =tr£,:_)1L _,jJ~,= -l ~fy-,_Q :::r~;~ i rtc +~µ- ~9'!j): ~_ff:!:?£-1J/ f~~-~ 2,_&~~- -~ I) [L Y'Yvvo. Ur,,[. fY/~1 lb:Y1 -/ The land owners adjacen t to the ao~~i' described tract or parcel of land are as follows: North-- ---~ ~ <cr.f).d --~< f~ ------- -------------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ----South _____ :;t~::: <----0 ----- ~ East ___ __ West __ the I acquired my right/ title, estate or fnterest to this propert y about the year_J_f/_'!__in f 9}1~"?~ ~ manner : -----------~_d /4};; -~? JJ-- - : -------- ----------------------------------UJ¥.___,~ ~ ----------------------------------- ------ fi& ..fL J'& -~~ O:~ -~- ½c- k~- ~b= '--~ cf~ --- ~~ fu- .i ~ -~o-t ----~ 9 ~ -~~ - _ I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereinterest , on is $:JJd_p_p_~4_ Lt)___ . I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or ____ _ in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $J.f.t,}{ .. 2:) ibe I am th owner of_ ___ ____ ______ cres o nd ad· ·ning e ab e d ed a a ·11 lai hie , are k a d but l g outs· the pare of o $--- _____ ------- -· , to e ex ark n t on ""c--__.. .ds posed c de or informa tion as to nts (In the space below should be set out any additional stateme also insert here a should he ble practica if this claim which claiman t desires to make; and , _ _ . bounds) and m11es by description of the tract or arcel of land ~. ---~ .----~£y :_~- ~-~~ J , ~~c-l Remarks :1±,~: ~s-l ~ _p /) 7 h_a . .- _1f_ . . ~ -!~-~ -::c:__Q_ _ . l /.Z&_ p ------- __ '.Z4- _ - ' - - - - ~~- ~ ~ ~ ---~~ _ j f__,o _ _fS,.o_lf-~,,tf=---<..·-kp"o/". Q_ 7 __ ~: -~:7 C£H&L'7f -~-~-= t,J,, _3,, ~---- - ;ithe~-~ -~!_ <':1 '/7"' df.Y ~~~ ;~ --: o2:11i" ~ -frback). on ry ~essa k r ~t._iiJ..av.M...- ~-~t_,_c_ ~ ' f - ~-<i. _cd_ (Contitiue i"e~ a:~~·~ ~~~~:i-t~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~ my name . a:. of ::rk_ ?zs:::t:~~r1~3,r STATE OF VIRGINIA, C(Jg~ ··pqJJ1: ~~ -- _ , ~- ,. ~ , To-wit. Ci-'GJ of ::arris onbur . The undersigned hereby certifies thaL _______ __ __ ___ ____,_..~---:.....:v- :\i:. --v.u-:i:t.-e:,-r---- ------matters the above named claiman t personally appeare d before him anctnra de ·oatn11iat"1the belief, and ge knowled his of best the to true are answer and things appeari ng in his above this __ ___ l~_t_b,__ ______day o: _____ _Eeh. ______::~-~ ~~-- ---- _ " o,, rr, 1011 £ . xp,res Se~ _____ ______ _ Cie:tk:m: btlnt:C a m : t ~ _ w r or .~ , e. Notary Public, oi:::;-u;U.§:µcs,-ofrth ~ i.."',__.,.,.... ~ .../1 -'f l,. ,3 , /r,~ • �£ . · -~' 1 ~ · Jl Claim of.L\,t<- D (l/ . I SL_____ ..:L ~-;--'--" Z ~ -~ - ili d.. ..£ -L ~-~ p,-~- --- --- --ln the Cir cui t Co urt of_ - ~ --- --- ~ . . 9 . ~ __ County, Virginia, No The Sta te Commission on Conse . ________, At Law. rvatfon and Development of the Sta te of Vir gin ia, Pet itioner, vs. _____ --- --- --- --- ----- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ----- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ----- --- --- --- --- --- --- -- 0 ~I /-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -mo re or less, of lan d in_ j_: ~___ -- -- -- -- The undersigned, in ans we r to the______1:: :-- .9- .~~ Co un ty, Vir gin ia, De fen dan ts. velopment of the Sta te of Vir gin petitiah. of the Sta te Commission on Conservation and Deia, and in res pon se to upon the f i ~ ~ id pe ftiti ~ and published in accordthe notice of condemnation aw ard ed ance wit h the ord er of the Cir Co urt oL /_U . _______ -~ cui t ~ Co unt y, Vir gm ia, ask s leave of the Co urt to file as his ans we r to sai d P.e ition thi s and to said not ice . My name i s : / c - ~ ~ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- My pos t office add res s is- --- ----- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --~ ----- --- --- --- --- --- 1 claim a rig ht, title, est ate or int ere st in tra ct or par cel of lan d wit hin the are a sou ght to be condemned, con tain ing abo ut_ _)k /J _J_1=_____ acres, on wh ich the re are the following buildings and imp rov em ent s: ___ ______________________________ ________________ __________ _ ____________________________ " ___ ___ _______________ IL? ___ __ ___ _______ _____ __ ____ ____ __ Th i~ ~n d is located ab o~ L- ~-:-- ~-m ile s ~rom ____ Vir gin ia, in t h e ~ ~~ -MJ gi st~ l ~r ict _ ~a iq ~ n t ~ c-<... I claim the follo~ ing rig ht, titl e, est ate ti? mt ere st in the tra scribed above: (In thi s space ct or par cel of land decla im ant sho uld say wheTuer he is sol and if joi nt ow ner give nam es e ow ner or joi nt owner, of the joi nt ow ner s. If cla ima nt is not he should set out exa ctly wh at sole or joi nt owner rig ht, title, est ate or int ere st he has in or to the tra ct or, , , ~l of lan d cJeis~ibed above. ) J fl. z ~--------- :zt 1 ,~ ¥ tc11;1_, ~ ~::tf i __ _, ~-~ ---- <'le ~ a' _a,iY ~7 .~ JJ ,J :. .,_'1 :k Z ~ ~ 1~ -& ~_ i, £_ .L _1 /. ~- -~ -~ A .W .i ~~~·d tra ct or parcel of land are as follow s: I ac ;:: ~ my ~ i :it~ fo llo ~g ma nne r: L ~- ~- -- -- -- .. st to this property about the year__ ________in the .R ,, ,; _ X b _ ~ ~ ~ ~-T r ;¼ _ . ,_ l. ~ ~---b· dr _J .& \, ---~ - : ; ;- ~ -----~ ~ -~ -~ -- -- -- -- -- I claim tha t the tot al value of thi s tra ct or par cel of lan d wit h the imp rov em ent s the reon is $-- --- --- --- --- --· I cla im tha t the tot al value of my rig ht, title, est ate or int ere st, the o ner of ________________ a la ut lyi outsid the P pos co em na · n of a ~x,,., ,i..wn i the ar , o t e ten f $(In the space below should be set out any add itional sta tem ent s or inf orm atio thi s claim which cla ima nt desires n as description of th~ tra ct or :parce to ma ke; and if practicable he should also ins ert her e toa l of Yd by me tes and bounds ). . , Re ma rks : il -. ,, ,t .. ,, ,. i1 .~ .~ 1 L _ ~ ~ -- -~ -- ~ rf .- l) _ ~ ~ - ~ -~ -. J l~ f- U :. 0 -~ 'L -s K ~,~"7'-t 2 .L 7 -, ~ ~ d-~ - ~ --- - ~ ·- e. 1 :i ~ ~ !L o J~ 7 ~ -7 f- rr ~_.}2 ,,u ~ ,- ~ fL ;I ., .. .. ,, "-7 t_ S_ 1~ -~ '" ~- t_ t} _. ~ r.1;p~p:;::;__a1.,£.~J1tf..~ ~a lf_ Co ntin ue rem ark s if nec ess ary on the bac 1 Wi tne ss my sig nat ur~ k). lif (or my nam e and ma rk atta che d her eto ) this_..,2__, _________ day of/ ~- 1- -- -- -- -, 1930. 'f. __ STATE OF JJF GI NI A, COUN TY OF _ Th e un de r~e cth ere by certifi the above nam ed cla ima nt person es tha t_ _____ .,,c..,. ~4,\ ,!~C 4,,C -.v:n ~ - - ~ - - - - - - --- -and thi ngs ap ~n g in his a~? ally app ear ed bef ore h and de oat h th the ma tte rs ve.4ans we r are tru e to the bes t of his kno wle e and belief, thi s ____ ~_lP- ________ day of! -.LE i 1 - ~-~ - - - , -~- ~ 7 - 1 9 3 t j ~ R~ .,C]Q:rk ef the Gottrt, eF gpecial Inoe5tigstor or No tar y Public, ~J tt8 tic e ef thQ Peaee. �Claim ofih~ <J L ,/)/~,Lf~~ cb u~ ~ ______________________ _ __ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. In .the Circuit Court oL_J_(v_ ~, - [~ The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. __________________ ___________________________________________________________ _ more-or -less, of land i n E ~ ~9 - t _ ~ __ County, Virginia, Defendants.-------The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the fili1.* of &aid peti_Yon and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court oL_L Y ~t}.ltJ#-:!3-,,___ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is-~ --{lj_"[j_u_r:unJ~---i;::-----1!,r"-----c---o---------- My post office address is __ , -~-0-::!:::-----r --.YL.!:2:'-J'- ~~-----l claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about__/_,4_./2'_,f-1-:-_____ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: ___________________________________________________________ _ ,,L~-7---------- -----------------------------dJ,---------------- ---- v ---------------------------- - ---- ThiA }and is located about_ __~ _____ _miles from ____ Virginia, in crC theJ ~ w ~ - ~ t ~ ~ ~ std ~ n~ I claim the following right, title, estate of interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say wheTher he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or /) ) aboy2-) pa ·c~ of land descrit '½ _._,_ g;_9f~ry-'-- ~h1L~01~~;~L~----~-~ -~J!fL~J1&v4)_,1t£~i ·.f/~~-~--------~ _,_ f _ ~_0 ~_/1 ___ ~,,__°4_f ~ ff..Jl,/trL bed tract-or parcel of-land are as follows: ::t~n~ ~ a t : ; : : ~ ~ South ___ 9 __ · __ 1 2 ~ ---- - ---------------------------------------------- !:::t:::.h. ,_-.-:-:--_::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I acquired m~ right, title, es ate or interest to this property about the yearLf'(~ _in the _ - following manner: _4-tk__~e::e_~-~-T¼-_~- ~ - -~ t ~~1JJ~ -- - - ~ - k .. Y ~ _11. / M _ ~ ~ -- ~ - ~-------------1 claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $fi.Jd_~_(J_()_,__o_Jj__ . I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $/!J.IJ.,~,__i:.7-___ , acre of la adj "ning e ab e ____ _ ------~ner I a the II b a ai ·ch ark r a, pa ce of Ian b t I m out 1 e th o _____ _ ex are , to ds · in e Pa: po d co emn on o (In the space below should be set out an y additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a . description of the tract or parcel of land ~ metes and bounds). _bvu?£~ ~ Remar ks : 'frJ,,~A~-~'!Jt~_j/__ -~~~-t;;~ ~-~-~~~o£ hu-:~-~-~~~~ ____ _ t-Lr~~d.~~·lnry-Cl.~~-~1/kut~;Xi~JL~~-~-fl_, _Y~~ _i~~1!l!i~~-1{~)f_,_f_~o /J1.L_~~~,~-Y-.~~-- ~g~_ii..L». _;tt°"'1L'-'o/c~4continue remarks if necessary on the back). ~ 'fit~ess my signature (or my name and mark attached hereto) this ____;t._4,~h_ ___ ___ day ~ of _ t J ~ ---, 193p. / ! ------~i!:;_11-~----------~ - To-wit: STATE OF VIRdINIA, GOONT4::0F;:Ljaz~-P_-#--::~-=c:£> (J Ci t Y .af' -~ 'nris~b~-;;-7 · . . The undersigned hereoy cm"tines tuat __ _____________Lol..S.---Y....'Ule.e...y--------------the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters :~~-~~~~~i:~:~~~~=-~::i:f~ ~ ~ :-~r~:i:st of his knowledge and belief, , mrn,:ssron Expl res c1~r.l.t;2!':<:H.1~ £:2m:.\:.<1~,:~~~pi s Notary Pub1ic, or .i ust1ce t ' ft, rl3f. O.L , �--~~-'.~---~~ =: oL~~\:~~ -~-- _ Claim In the Circuit Court oL/ _U_1__________ _________ County, Virginia, No. ________, At Law. The State Commission on Conservatio and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. __ ____ ____ ________ ______ . _____ _____________ ____________ ______________________ _ ------------------------ ~D., f' --- ~--- -------------------------------------------- more or less, of land in./-J- 'ZfW~--_________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the peti of the State Commission on Conservation and Dein response to the notice of condemnation awarded velopment of the State of Vi inia, a upon the )i~ ofj aid peti n and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of./-l,- ~U-0___ ~ ---~ - County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to sai etition and' to said notice. My name is _______ 'M ~ _a . _ ~------- ,:a ----- - -,:--- - ----------------My post office address is ____~ - ~ - - ~ - Y ~ ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 claim a right, title, estate or interest in a 1J._act or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ __/~f-2-::-: _acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: __ __ _____ ___ ________ ___________ __ ____________ ___ ___________ _ .a:, c.:> .::.t!. - ~~ 0 en ~ >, ..... c:: 'CD :::i 0 CD E t,;:S . UU :5 ..c:: b.O _£ .£ -0 CD ~ c.:> 0 ,l;: cc: r... CD u M 0) r--. co u.J u.. �Claim ·-- ~tlL ~/ t-ry JA u ,,._,,__, J, ,___________________ _ of'i'r '-....,, In the Circuit Court oL~ ------- j1- l 1 ~ _____ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs, _____________________________________________________________________________ _ more-or less, of land in __ &~9_:./!;__ _~_County , Virginia, Defendants.---- ---The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filin% o~eti~);on and published ~~ ~cc_ordance with the order of the Circu~t County, Virgmia, asks leave of the Court to file this Court of_ __ ji& ________ f-/£~ - as h:;~:: ~ £}~ :~~o~~ ~ ------------------- . - ~ ---------~------ ---------------- -----My post office address is ____ ~ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about__J.Z_~ f ~ ____ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: _______________________ ------~--------- ____________________ _ ---------------- -------------,-- ---------------- -- <i.7------------ ----------------- ----- ThirJEnd is located about__<>c,, _______miles from __ _ . ( ~ ~----------Virginia, in .JC_ · thei~ ~-~s~eri al Distri~ s~i~unty. I claim the followingrigl{t, tme';' estafu6r i n t ~ h e tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say wheTuer he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or ri/ ~r~# !JJ. land d~cribed above.) _k . S . ~ JLd'_,/_4cn~:y/}J1,_S;'=~,f2 _5',_~~~~-J1 .JiL_~ ____ ____ _ . '._"f}i~ i_.M,-_JL ~,~.1z'_"1 /4,o_jf_~~ _y~~-J=.1 ~ : : t F t : ~J ~ ~ed tract-or parcel of land-are as follows:! I ~ i-1 IL'_ East _____ ac;::~~; / ____ / 1 ._ [_ rf l : :t~ ;tate _ foll?~~ manner: ! ----------------------------------------------------- . interest to this property about the year_Lf':!.~n the / )!'½, -~ -"'---~ fu~~d ,.-- n . ~ ~-Z-1,~ --~ ~--~-- 0:h..'f- ~~~f~ --~~+- -------- -- I claim that the total value of this met oi:~are0l ~f la.lid with the improvements thereinterest, on is $Q_)j.JLll.1L~-~- -- I claim that the total value of my right, title, est · ~, ~, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $~ m the owner of_ ____________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or prot d am II lai ch rk. a a, outsi the pare o 1/11tnd)Y lyi __ __ _ ___ o __ ar , to e ex s · in he a of pose con~nat (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a . p_arcel of lalJ4 by metes and bounds). description of the tract ~bfi t!rn on Remarks: lt~-~~AJ±.~L-~~-~~-~~~~ - -~ ~~t!l, ~~t:: ;t'f;.{ =::; ;:-~ ~~~ -/1~_c.A.i_ --- ____ j _,_~ ~-,)ll3.L ~~~-+-;J ~i<--~-~ -Ip~ _ cl;l~ __ cl.t;,c-1.L}'fY~ _L1 ~,(Continue remarks if necessary on the back). "\}'itness my signature (or my name and mark attac3-ed hereto) this _____ ~~--------day oL/ J J ~ -~1.-- 193 . ;;_ 'f. ____'_ ___ !_t__ (_____ L,____ -,-_~~C~!--"0 --- ~-;,t-------, To-wit. ' COUNTY OF-------- ~ STATE OF ~ The undersigned hereby certifies thaL---- ~ ~---~ --- Y- -~ -~ --------the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters and things appearing in his ~bpvf answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, ~·-r~ -, ~ this _______,_t!!______ day of £ -~ __17/. erk of the Court, or Special Investigator or Notary Public, or Justice of the Peace. �~~a::e ~ r c ~ Li _- ---~ ---- _______- __ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservati<0; and Development of the State of Virgin ia, Petitioner, vs. ____________________________________________________________ _________________ _ ------ ------ ------ --- -.-- ?.:J ~--p- ~----- - ------ ------ ----. --..----------- ------ ---more or less, of land m_J~ 5:. _____ _County, V1rgmia, Defend ants. The undersigned, in answe r to the petiti of the St te Commission on Conser velopment of the State of Virgin ia, and in respon se to the notice of condem vation and Denation awarde d upon the fi~- ~ , ~ ~~t~~ and published in accordance with the order of the Circui t Court oL_ /_l! ~~~ Cou nty, Virgin ia, asks leave of the Court to file this as h~;::: :_~'.~~Jl:~o ~i _e: ____ ------~.-p-y: ;----- ---:,C ------My post office addres s is ___ ..,._~--- -- _ _____ -~- --.: r--- L-~ ,, __-::_ I claim a right, ti-tte, esta~e of' interes t in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, cont;in ing abo --/-- ~ ~ ~-acres, ~n whi5,h th 77e ~ the following /"{bu ilding s and improvements:__________ -~--~-k--~ ~ - - ~ -----'_' - ~6ifU ri/4"' ~ . ------ ------ ----- ' ------ ------ ------ -- ----------- ------ ------ ------ ------------ ----- ---- I-cl im that the-tot al --Jue of t h i ~ ~ ~ ~ Y : < 1 " . ! ! ' ~ ~ ~ ~ a l value of my right, title, estate or interes'.'9 ..._ in and to ~~r parcel of land with the improv ements thereo n is $~Q -~_5)___'¥!,__ Y:¼the owner of_ _______ ____ __ __ acres of land adjoini ng the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damag ed by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $---------- ------ -· (In the space below should be set out any additional statem ents or inform ation as to this claim which claima nt desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remar ks· -- ~ ---~ ------ -- --~--- --- _______ __ , f - - t --~ - . _-:~ ~ ~ a .-~ ~ <3 ~ ~ ~:~::::~~2~E ------ ---, 193f. - ~ - -~ _JJ:Z_ ____ lf!::!f!__ ______________ _ STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF____ /.o_ ~~;T-------, To-wit : The unders igned hereby certifies t h a L - ~ - ~--~/J:=-__ the above named claima nt personally appear ed before him and made that the matter s and things appear ing in his abi answe r are true to the best of his oath knowledge and belief, this ___ _____(,a ________ day of_ ____~ ------ -, 193{. ::f'}l- ~ of __~ a,_ ~--- ------------ ';I¥-- ------------ ,_____ ' _:-I -----------~ °My Commls~lon tx~ctob;r Toth rgn I,~ - Clerk of the Court, or Special Investi gator· or Notary Public, or Justice of the Peace. �Jl,~s1L7J-, »~J r""o/ ,_J Claim of d,, e,,a/.U .,,-C ---------- -- ---------- In the Circuit Court of ______~ 9---~----Cou nty, Virginia, No, ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. _______ _________________________________________________ __ ___________________ _ Tu;~~de~~ig,,~~.1i:~,;~,;;?h,~! ~statecC~~~i~/~~~~a,c~:::~v~~i! and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing~ p! ition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of__~----- - - - /- - ~ --- County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is __ ~ - ~ -~ s ~-----177 ------~----~---- ------ --------?---~ -~ ~ ~------- My post office address isf l ~ --I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_J_g!;i..7-~____ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: ___________________________________________________________ _ _____________________________ ') ______ ____________ __ ?i?------------- ---------------- ---Thi~}and is located about_ __L10______ _ miles from ____£ ~ -~ --:------ Virginia, in the. . J ~~ ~~te;rial District of said County. I claim the following r i g h ~ ~ ftf ~ i~;;t~the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whe~er he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or of land desc1?1?ed above.) ;tJ) r:t "----~~';f_ ,9u_~ij{-ff': -t2,'3, b L~Jt-~An<J_&~_f~ ,_~o,_!f_f}~dJl<-c f>_~~ ~-kL01:&f£i.~t:1J---------- ::t~n~ ~ ~ ~bcJve~ South __ act_or parcel of-land are as follows: !?t~ ---~_-;;:,zz:.._ __________________ ______________________ I a c : : ~! ~;et ~ ~ -:::-::::::::-:: :~~-:::-~::~; ;~~::-: : follom.ng manner: , ~_lt: :~et ;?~= ~=~ ~=-=I-claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements the~ on is $2-..k/.JJ. P_0.-1 _((_ /) __ _, I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parc·e1 of land with the improvements thereon is $.IJilJ_t.,_-~:.2.. ___ , th ow r of __ ___ ____ __acres Ian djoi · g th abo de par, b t lyi g outsi e the B k ar w ·c I a· w,' be pos d demnati of s w t ar rea, te of --------- ------- --· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel offnd by metes and bou . . JJ OL , O/J n~-ds . l/v1.~v-6 tn,,1-.ARemarks . ~.u:l:n..o..<i:-~~.;rx~ J~ -~ -½..I - -----------------------1 ~ ~ ~ A ~-~ ~ ~-~ -~ -f~~--i. - - ---)k~;/" 1;;X'.J£ ~-fl-~-~ ~2>,,"o /t,,t~-r-fll'=7 -()~~~)k _f'~~,JJ :Lfd..~7-~{l~j~-~ ~---- ~~-til_~,/JJl..i.~/<-o4t} Continue remarks if necessary on the back) . . }Vit}Jess my signature Q: or my name and i-nark attached hereto) this ____~fj;_~ _____ day ;~~:::~~~~.1~~~ ~~~~~~~------Ci bT .1arr i ~ ~ ~ 1 , .-, 1, 'r The undersigned hereby ce'i-tifies thaL_ ~ __.£Q;?.l-0-~t.e--~ ance..,~L- ic.e,. ____ ____ __ ______ the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matter s and things appearing in his a~J ve1 answ: r ar e true to the best of his knowledge and belief, this _______ J..LJ.tJ:1-__ ___ day oL1#'.Ldiv.../_ - -, 193ld y 0 ---- - ---- - - -- - - - - - -- ---- ----- - --- I)':· 10n ''Plre. CierkofJ.th:e}.Cntrtt;:-01:'.:, Spe:ciat:I..,.J.~~r,~ Notary Public, or::fi!"S.~~5&:9&1 _. ,J • .l J �Claim of_ _____ f.__,;:._~:;='11. In the Circuit Court oL f tioner, vs. ___________________________________ ------------------------ ----------------- more or less, of land in ________________________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petit· of the State Commis~on on Conservation and Development of the St te of Vi inia, an in response to the~ice of condemnation awarded upon the ~ of aid peti on and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of..{/j{!.j ______-_ --- ~--- ___ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to fil~ this as his answer to sa · petition a d to said notice. --;nt; ___ _ My name is _______ ~ _ _ _ _ ______ _ ____. ____ ~ My post office address is ________ ------------------------ ----------- ~fl__-:-____ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought ~:i i::~ ~~I S _______ Virginia, in d· is·_~e~t~.,;3'bouL ____~ __ miles fro __________________ the~ ~Magisterial District of said ounty. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners .. 7f claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exact!Y, what ri ht, title, ~ or interest he has in or to the trr This~# . T~:~~:~:~~~:~~-,~:v;;~!€~~~~ North ______ '..,/-: _____________ -========================= ---==-~ l~------ ---- ------------------------ ----------------- I acquired my right, titl , estate or intere following manner: _in the to this property about the year __j___ft.~_ ~~~ ~ ~ . ? - ¼~- « P - ~ ~ - ~ w t o ~ : o f my right, title, estate or ~r~ ---- I-- aim that the-total val~of thi. ~ f i 0 in and to this tr~ct--2.r_ parcel of land with the improvements thereon is ~ !__~~- = -~ th~ o~ ne~ of_ _______________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or ~ parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $------------------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). _ Remarks· , · tk· ...----- . -- ~ 7 ----- _____________ ----g._J.- , ~ -nJ.-~-- ~~,1-~,s t;;jl-z~ __w _ , ~ ~ ~ ~k) .,........,.,£,· - ~ ~~c - - - - - ~ ~ ~ u e remarlfsit necessary vu, tf\e bac· : . Witness my &ignafore (or my name and mark attac~eto) this _______________ day --------------~ ~-~ ~ ~ ~ of ________________ ~---, 1930. STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF ___ _________ 77 ___ ----------, To-wit: The undersigned hereby certifies that_ ___Q,___6.L_ _ the above named claimant personally appeared before h and things appearing in his above answer are true to t ------------- _ ------ --------- and made oat that the matters best of his knowledge and belief, '}_~----J91Hi _~ ______ _ this ______ j 52 ________ day oL ___ llg miio · 1011 Expire$ A11g. 16, 1IJ81 . tor-m-. ~~~ Notary Public, ..cu:.J.ustice-.o.Lth~ J~~.--1\ �~~::-4(! ~~k<- -County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. _____________________________________________________________________________ _ -------- -------- -------- (";;) -tf .------ -..-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -- more or less, of land in_ /.(:~ g._____ _ ______ County, Virginia, Defendan ts. The undersigned, in answer to the petiti of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Vj{ginia, and m response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon thef9'!Y1g oJ sa~d pet;ti.on and published i~ a_cc_ordance with the order of the Circu~t Court of'-S1LM.f:..____ ________ _ County, V1rgrnia, asks leave of the Court to file this as h~ya~:: :: _h~:t ult?'" said tice. ______ ___. ___________ ; /;.,:---- - . _____~..;4~_______ _______ _______. _______ _______ My post office address 1s u ___ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or reel of land within the area sought to _be_ condemn~d, containin g about__ j ~-1- '~_acres, on which t h ~ w i n g ~~::!:it-~~~bout_ ____ ~ _miles from_ 7- �~ircu~:-::~~' £__'=1-Coun : Virginia, No, ________, At Law. ~~a:e The State Commission on Conservation'-dnd Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. _____________________________________________________________________________ _ ------------------------ ·- - - - - - - - - - - - ~ ~~ / ~-Ji:,~-I claim that the total value of this · · -'I ,, -~-,::-v--c--~~ ~..(-.__.._ Mi is $~4~:-:-:__r.: 1 claim that th total value of my right, title, estate or intere~ ~ ()~ in and to ~ ! [ ~ or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $..,.;,L~~- ~ -----~ the owner of_ _______________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outsid~ the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $------------------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a ·, :\ ~~~ac~~~~~~ ~. ---- . ../J . ... ,_ .,. .. \; _'!-'.. [i - --- _·__ - - . . ,...... <___________ ___________ _ ________________________ ,;__~----------------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). , / - .-· Witness my signature (or my name and m~attached hereto) this _____~ ________ day ,, , ;~~;~~~~~;;~, l~~~NTY OF_£r,;_-; ;~~if-i,;=;~=~i~~--- --------- The undersigned hereby certifies that_ _____. ?::!'__{!____ ,___ £ _~ ------------ ~ -----the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters and things appea~ing in his above -11-1:Bwer are true to the best of his knowledge /and belief, this_____ j ~ < ____ day of__ ? .:_________ ::~3 ~1r&:~ ator~ 0 -~ 1,1 Notary Public, or Justice- of the P-eace. ~ Z% �_... _ / gfl;Jj_ ', Claim of_____ 0-----~ -----~-- -------- -------- -------- -----In the Circuit Court oLJ__ ____ ______ -~oun ty, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation d Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. _______________________________________ _____________ _________________ ________ _ more or less, of land in ____________________________ County, Virginia, Defendant s. The undersigne d, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of ~~~inia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the of "aid, peti~. and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ ____~ -~ ---- ~ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is_________ ~ . - 2J2.-~ ~ -z_(-- zi;:_-My post office address is _____________ , _________t:-_~~~~ !::-'-~--- ------------~ re $ ~-' -:+ --,-- ---------- ----r----- ------------------------------ ---------- -------- -r ~ -~ b I claim that the total value of this tEact gr ~:.ind . wit:a t+te iffll'l'Oot'l'R-Q~R.w~--..~ ...o.n is $~!t'P-~-~~ ~- ~ t h ~ l ~ a l u of e m right, title, estate or inter~e& t, ~ ,, t ~ p a r c e l of land wtth the mprov ents thereon is $~~~! '~----· f r -I am-the owner oL ___________ __ __·acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damagea by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $--------- ------- --· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or informatio n as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a J2~~ . ' desc~:!::k:f~~ p~ete~u:d•~- -- ~ L ~'" :::_::::::::::::::::::::__::~--~ -::: :::: :: co w, LJ_ ! J �Claim of__ lArs . _.r:;mma V ._ uiooons _________________________________________________ _ In the Circuit Court of ___ fulc ki.n ilim_ __________ County, Virginia, No,----~ -, At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. ~1-r:.e..: __-::'@I!.~_y_ !__ ~_-h Q.P_QD2_,__ 9Jy:n_t;_r_:_ _9_.( _9,_b_Ql1_t.. _l _~5 __t_Q_l43_...acr....e.s~------_incl ue1il:i.g_ _ c~r tainmirn~r..al _ righ_ts_,___________________________________________ _ more or less, of land in ___ tl.9_c~j__ngr.1..arn ____________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court oL:'-i<?~!~tP.Kr:!§._!1!_ ___________ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. · My name is ___ tl.rs~_-!:Jrnma __'[ L__Gib.JJ..on.s.. ________________ ~--------------------My post office address is __EJ.kt9_I!~_Jeg~---------------- -----------------------I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about__J_~~ _j:;_Q_d-.1':? ___ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements:.P_IO_p_er.t..:l. _..C..Q:0.5_is.t_s_ _o.f. _.s..a.w__t.imh r __laru:t. _ana_-Y-oung _t_imb e r , a.J.so_ miD<3ral _deposi ts _of _u1a.ngane s c _of _h i gne st pur e ty, _mining ..s.ho.1...t _lQw..e...t. C:: d _ana _deposits _of _mangan e s e _ae fin.1. t e ly d e t c;; rmin ea . _____ _ Th'1s 1·an d 1s m1'l es f rom_________ . 1oca t ed a b ou t ____________ 1 Yanc 8y____________________ v·1rgmia, ·· m · the_ b.t..one.wall ___ Magisterial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) ..J.oint _.a · nP-r _.witlL _ct..au~n_t-sr__ -::_ .J.11:c.s_.__ !! 4:ry__ g;p_aJm_,__JL!...1_AD.9-__ e.9J!.::: __________ _ _tl.un.t.er 111~- Gi_bb on s ________________________________________________________________ _ The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: N orth ___ .Bdrll.s.h.er.g_~r- ana _Sl,_pe _______________________________________________ _ South ____ Gi o lJ on s_ 1,ma _________________________________________________________ _ East ____ By __ Su r v C::_y ____________________________________________________________ _ West ___ J .__ vip£.. _____________________________________________________________ _ L- I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year __________ in the following manner: ....E .a ·r_ty __par_tly__.inher_lt -9-__ ;t_r_QI11__ruy __:(g._t_r_1e_r_!..;;__~;;.t_~ts:._-:Cs!-12.t.!}Y.!..Jj_._:[0.r~c.::. __ I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $J-~0_QQ_!_QQ_____ , I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $-'l,. 000 ~00-----· ~ 'a I am the owner oL_ l;:_4,.Q __________ acres of land ~o:hlingdihe:xahroze:xmscrilmdJ<tlrant:xarx .:xp3rn.eixofxl:ruubhut lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $------------------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks· This_ woo a lanei_ is_ own e d _ ana ops3rat ed_ in conn e ction _1u th __ _ _riy e r bottom. _land at_ Yanc ey~ __ va . -ab out _one mil e _ui stant. __ n c a d ily _ -a.ccesfil.ble _.and..._cm :'lenient .. __ Jiilin .r.al _.d.epn..s.i_t_s_ _o.f. _m_4:og_an;;::_s_ELlllg.Y__t2;, __Qf -g~..ea.t.. value...... ------------------------ ------------------------ ----------------------- ----r~;~~;-~;~;;~;~~~-(~~-:;-~~:~-~~- ~c;:ti:t:~:::;:::) n;;;;_;iJf~~; ;-;;_--~ "'--~ -°'Y~-------- oL~----------- -, 193t STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF------~------- -~o;;wjt: The undersigned hereby certifies that_ _____ the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the m,atters and things ~aring in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, tu,· ~ . thiL.2-'t' __________ day o L ~ - - 3 ( ~ ~ _ y __~-------- 8 ~-_____ _ ~ Clerk of the Cou:rt, or Special Investigato=r or ~ otary Pu ljc, o, J ~ . th~ J c3 P~'q IL �\___,,, Rev,\s~d repo~ County: ~ D1str1o~: Rockingham Stone 11 1;63 - Gibbon, . Acreage Q.1Jl1med: .Assessed: Val o Assessed: Clat . d: 243. 95 l/5 1nt. .. 14/40 JO 6. $69 inherited 1th rea: one m11e east of Location: y; Deed: 124 A.. purcbaoed 1926 other lam . ncoy, east of Gnp Run. ....nt1.rol7 w1 tb1 n the Park area. •ne. I,noumbrances , oounter ol 1 s or lllP§:!, Slope type. §911: o miles to Island Ford over oounty road . Roads: or There is no cleared · Umber: iiifuf on tiiis \raoi . Thi s entire trucl ts in wooded been h avil7 cut QVer and e. portion land and has been burned. over repeatedly. All of tl saw timber has boen r oved trolll this t:ract, lea ing r.ot~1ll8 ezeept tuelwood . A total or 700 cords valued • 254 per cord or 175. 00 story of t~c, and eondltton Improvements:: Volue ot .land None. bz tms; Value 29r . acre :1.So (burn d) (unbUl"ned} Tot~ll va luo o-£ l nnd Tot·. l value To~ul value .. ..... ..... . . . ....... . ........ , , or tr o, 3.50 . IIo- ~verage v lue per ere , ...... 241 •.00 175. 00 l.6 . 00 '3.78 Total value .®§. oo 133. 00 2 2 I. 5o �#230 - Gibb ono 1 Ea.a v. u Valu e Cln.i ned: Loca tion: 6956 . 00 " re !1 ~ 1 0 • "960 . 00 1 entir ely Hawk nbill oree near tov of Blue R~dge and liec \?it.t in t1e f-ark area . Incuo branc es , coun ter clain s or la~s : .§.2.ll : - ;>.,ep. 120 A • .. oseo ed 120 A . 6-,crea, .e Claio ed: None known . Cand y clay loa.t:1 • leven oile s to ~lkto n "Ver seve n nileo of O>Unty road o. ...d fou1' nile s ovc ~ 3potm ood '.l'rai l . clca= ed land on this Hist or, of trac t and cond itio of tinb cr: Thepurp oseo for oany year s . troc t ae been used for graz ing : oa.da : Ther" ' is no aawt inbe r on the ,iood land . Tit:1b er : Fuel :ood .... 120 cordo vn.lu ed Inpro ven ntc: 50¢ --- ,160 . 00 . gle ellin ~: Log, 15xl 7', 2 roor.10, porch 6xl6 ', shin , ition cond poor h, finio log , story roof , stone flue s, ls ' -- ~lbO . 00 occu pied by tena nt, ki tc:1e n - 2 roon s 15xl 6xl2 11 25.0 0 Old barn : Log 1 ?x4·1 xl2', shin gle roof , )Dor 5 . 00 , ~oor u . s1rin c hous e : Log, 8xl0x 6 ', shin gle roof 5. 00 " poor , roof gle Hen hous e : Log, vxl0x 6 ', shin ,i.)185 . 00 Val ,e of land by t:n;e s: Valu e per a.ere !,3 .oo ... creac ;e 10 T;z1Je Slo e Fg 25 . 00 110 :r2·0- Tota l vnlue of Tota l value of 1'otc. l vnlue of Tota l va.lu e of Tota l value of .Avc_~o. 0 ~ orclm rd land in .rove nents tinb er trac t vo.lu c _;Cr o.c:.: re ,_o.oo 2780 . 00 H .. 5 . 00 60 .00 .,~06~ .oo 25 . Tota l Valu e . 30 . 00 2750 . 00 ,°; ~;'lfJO . 00 �County: - #163- Gibbon, Mrs . Emma District: Rockingham Stonewall v. N .......... _ T. L. Yance7 Jacob Yost LEGEND: Slope Scale • l" = 20 chains su, �I/ file m the Clerk's Office Rockingham County, Va, oc·1 / THS ST.<\TE J0~J:Is.3I0N DP 71 R'; rnA • o:J 1932 ~O:iS3RV'r::'IOH YS . 81\3S11]DR~ ATZI:r~ IJ OTIC.:i.:3 , -~=rn t'IFTY TWO THOU.3Airn FIVZ HUimR.m SIXTY ONS (52 , 561) AJRE.3 OF Ld1:rn rn 110_,Kl]GHA:.1 cou.:TY . To the honorable .u. • •1 . l 3ertram , Judge of the circuit court of HockinghaLl J ounty . The .Pet i tion of .Jrs . ~:n.na. v. Gi bbons , i unter ..1 . Gibbons , ana .lrs . J ry Gibbons dnapp , respectfully represents: ~/I,~. That tney are the ovners in fee sLnple of' a tract of one hundr d ,\ and tr enty four and one - half acres of Lnd within the urea which i sought to be condemned for Par.;c purposes in the above entitled 0au e . '.that this land lies .t!)ast of yancey about one or one and one - ha f niles , that nost of the land is flat land , timber , and 0ontrins valuable .1anganese prospects as will be seen from Bulletin 660 J issued by the interior Depart~ent on Januery 21 , 1918 . This land is in ti nber but is cap'"'ble of utilization for f r1:1ing purposes and for fruit raising . 'l'he land 'itself regardless of the rnineral pro s pects thereon is worth at least one 111hous811d .&ight Hundred Sixty :,even Dollars and .1<ifty Gents for ·,;hich the Appraisal Corruissioners of the rar,:: proposed Lo give only the sun of Five ttundred and Sixty Dollars which is aot one - third of its actua Vfl lue . LI .A.:.:D IT ION '.i. 0 H.:::: 11 OT.;, .uXJeptaa t exJept s to SEi id report of .'ippra isal Go,n.nissioners upon the grou.:1cls that they h~ve ignored th .11ineral rights thereon belonging to .r;;xcepta . . t 1d others which is c:i ... worth at le&st 'l'Welve l'housand .uollars , ...:.iXCeptant·s interest there n being 7orth · if teen ~1und rea. Dolls rs . 'l'he proposed t£,cin, of ~xceptant • s property at the price aug;ested by the ~oard of apprai al uom;nissioners a nounts to confiscation of their property and ta,.::ing tte same without ~ ny just compensation th ~re for . --- ~ ,JEERE OR Petitioners pray leave to file this, their except , 3oS �to the said report of the ::said Board of asks the Court to grant the ..1 Fi hesrin ppraisal co.nnissioners and befo:re the ,ourt or the Jur empanneled by it to the end that justi0e .ay be done p3titio11ers . AJD they will ever pray , etc . Cou 1s el VI .c,J- IJ 1ri , I, Bess. ie "': . Coo,;{,e , a .1. ota ry Pu bli...i in r..uct for the ; i tJ of Ha risonburg in the ;;;t-£te of Virgii1ia , do certify th!it •.1rs . E.11na going Petition or ~x0eption are true . Given under ~y hand tfuis 1st day of October , 1932 . ~r~l ~q v. �VIRGINIA: · IN TEE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY . The State Com.mission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PETITIONER v. At Law No. 1829 Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, ana Fifty-Two Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of land, more or less • • • • • • . • . • . • • . •• On this !J.,~ DEFENDANTS day of December, 1933, came Emma v. Gibbons, Hunter M. Gibbons, Mary y . Snapp, Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Baltimore, and FarmenB sAgriculture Credit Corporation, by counsel, and on their motion, leave is given them to file their application for the payment to them in the amounts hereinafter of the sum of Thirty Six Hundred Eighty Five Dollars ($3685.00), the amount of the award set out in the judgment of condemnation for tract number 230, and heretofore paid into Court. And it appearing from the report of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners heretofore filed in this cause, and in the petition for judgment and condemnation heretofore filed herein that in the opinion of the petitioners, the said Emma V. Gibbons, Hunter M. Gibbons and Mary Y. Snapp, are invested with a superior or better right or claim of title in and to said tract number 230; and it further appearing that the said tract of land is incumbered by a certain deed of trust to Howard K. Gibbons, Trustee, securing a debt of Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1200.00), payable to /.'~)n.. Thompson; and it further appearing that the said owners ~ve assigned to the Farmers Agriculture Credit Corporation and the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Baltimore , the sum of Eleven Hundred Thirty Dollars and Thirty Cents ($1130 . 30) out of said award; and it further appearing that excepting said deed of trust and said assignment, the recofd of this cause does not disclose any denial or dispute of any party or person in interest as to the title to WARD SWANK ATTORNEY AT LAW HARRISONBURG , VA. �--2-said tract or to the proceeds arising from the condemnation there of; and it further appearing that the said Hunter M. Gibbons and Mary Y. Snapp desire that the entire amount of said award remaining aflter the payment of said deed of trust debt and said assignment debt shall be paid to the said Emma Vo Gibbons; appearing to the Court that all taxes due or taxable upon the sai tract number 230 have been paid; upon consideration whereof , it i considered and ordered by the Court that the said sum, to - wit, Thirty Six Hundred Eighty Five Dollars ($5685 . 00) paid into Court ,I by petitioner as just compensation for said tract number 230, shall be paid and distributed as follows : Twelve Hundred / Dollars ($1200 . 00) thereof to said / ~ J'rv. Thompson , the owner and holder of said first lien deed of trust; the further sum of Eleven Hundred Thirty Dollars and Thirty Cents ($1130 . 30) to said Farmers Agriculture Credit Corporation and the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Baltimore ; and the balance of said award, to-wit , the sum of Thirteen Hundred ~ifty Four Dollars and Seventy Cents ($1354 . 70) shoµld be paid to the said Emma v. Gibbons ; and the Clerk of this Court is directed to transmit a certified copy of this order to the Treasurer of Virginia , who shall pay unto the said / . ~ ~ . Thompson , Farmers Agri- culture Credit Dorporation and Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Baltimore , and the said Emma v. Gibbons , the aforesaid respect- ive amounts , the aggregate of the same being the amount of the award set out in tl:e judgment of condemnation for said tract of land, taking from the said payees r eceipts therefor, and certifying such payments to the Clerk of this Court for appropriate entry as required by law . ENTER : tr WARD SWANK ATTORNEY AT LAW HARRI SONBURG, VA. lifJj �COUNT Y OF ROCKINGHAM Year Assessed to: ~ss;s~ .. ........ District as follows Received of: . Capitation Intangibles Income NOTICE This receipt 1s given Penalty for partial payment of taxes . Original tax ticket will not be delivered to taxpayer until t:.ixes are paid in full. ~ -;.. Personal Property ~eal FJ4 t; - P enalty --"---- l!J - lJ -/4 I) /)cres - - - -,- / d n_ I .t.-j ~ Intere st AJ verti si ng Cost, etc. / 100 Dollars Total Harrisonbu rg ~3/ Date .......1.. ~/-·-~ / -/ ...... M. H. HARRIS ... .. .... 193........ . By.... ... II lJ ti �C!tltrk'11 ®ffi.ct Qtirruit <!tnurt nf Jnrkingqant <!tnuniJJ HON. H . W. BERTRAM JUDGE J . ROBERT SWITZER 1Jlfarrisonhurg, lllirginia DEPUTIES W . EDGAR SIPE MARGI E BOWERS MARGARET BRANUM C L ERK STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM, to-wit : I , 3 . Robert Switzer , Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rockingham 0ounty , do hereby certify that I find no delinquent taxes against the tract of 120 acres in stonewall District , assessed in the name of Emma v. Gibbons and others , except for the tax year 1932 , but which taxes by statement of M. H. Harrison , County Treasurer , shown herewith, have been paid in the County Treasurer ' s office , since said tract was returned delinquent to my office . Given under my hand this 27th day of December , 1933 . Cler{ of the C i r ~ u r~ County , Virginia . J of Rockingham ~ c 9-e. �M. H. HARRI SON TREASU RER OF ROCKING HAM COUNTY HARRISON BURG, VIRGINIA To Whom It I\,aY Concerm : I hereby ce rtify that the records of my of fice show that the tax2s for the years 1932 and 1933 assessed in the name of Emma V. Gibbons , Hunter Gibbons and others, on a tract of 120 acres of land situate in Stonewa ll District in Rockingh am County, have beE n paid . Given m.nd.er my hand this 2?th day of Decembe r 1933 . County . �State of Virginia, City of Harrisonburg, to - wit : I, Janet SprinKel, a Notary Public, in and for the City and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Hunter M. Gibbons and Ward Swank, whose names are signed to the foregoing writing, have personally appeared before me in my said City and having been duly sworn, made oath that the facts therein stated are true . Given under my hand this 21st day of December , 1933 . ! Notary Public . WARD SWANK ATTORNEY AT L AW H ARR ISO NBURG , VA, �'/ , I :z z- n:; '• STATEMJNT » aN JJ "' 0 n 0 m ... !=0 OF ) 2 Chas. A. Hammer, p .q. cm m 3. XJ l'I C :a:, 2 !l -I z, z, "' :i C "R~ <. . ae.;-~-...N EMMA. V . GIBBONS , HUN!ER M . GIBBONS , MARY GIBBONS SJ APP < :::r DI -2 C ., "' :, "' Z, - 3 .. z, n I'\ oo_ ;: i"" STATEMENT OF COS TS. , POSTAGE, ETC. : ,. l'I 0 I> I( "'... 0 �SUPLEE ENVELOPE CO .• UPPER DARBY. PA. �CHAS. A. HAMMER ATTORNEY AT LAW HARRISONBURG, VA. To The Hon . u hil ip 1Villi ams. , .u d .i:.c ct <;;i.i .rJ1<.1J.1 of the Ve , Tho.;ias. L . Y r. i:auz.y , Julia .:.:,Stea , !Jiessrs. Ha. er de hen & rbi tra ti o doah ~a.tion v • .zib ons , · . r. YarceJ , . ttie cey, • .:i . Yancey and 1 n. er of :: .r ...··- nu ati on proc a edi ngs in co1 , ecti o .r~ rea , as it Bo-·a. : .rark v. Y 0 1 t c y , hu.ve eu1.ployed represent us in all con- ,v'i th our land tract 116 3 in the ppears upon the maps filed in the Jle rk ' c Office of Rocxing ha.n County . Given u~ der our h • ds this 22~1d d y of ugu st , 1933 . IC-k, �T OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, THE STATE CO?AMISION ON CONSERVATION AND DEV]ru)RtENT OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA , Vs o CASANDRA LAWSON ATKINS , et als ,, and 52,561 Aores of Land in Rockingham County. filM t,-, th~ Clerk's Office R~klN4ham County, Va. AUG Jf 1933 'ro TEE HONo Ho (l) w. Bml'RA1:1, JUOO- OF rn CIRCUIT c ~ L + ' j : t - Clerk The motion of Emma V.Gibhons, Ifumter MaGibbons, and Mary Gibbons Snapp , praying the Court to diaapprove and to decline to accept the findings of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners heretofore appointed by the said Court in the above matter, wherein the said Board reported under #163 of its findings as filed in the Clerk's Office of the said Court that moveants are only entitled to FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ($560 . 00 ) DOLLARS for the 124-1/2 acres of land which they own in fee , the mineral rights being owned by Dmna V.Gibbona , et als ., and for 1hich a separate claim has been filedo (2) The amount allowed for the said land is Wholly inadequate , and amounts to a taking of their property without just compensation. This land is in young growing timber , is suitable for farming purposes , and excellent land for fruit growingo This land at the lo est calculation, lying within a mile and a half of the railroad , and alongside the public road, is easily worth FIFTEEN ($15000) DOLLARS per acreo The land is unimproved and the entire tract is slope and orchard land of a good typeo is The value of this land at the lowest GHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN' (,rl , 867 . 60 ) DOLLARS .AND FIFTY CEN'ISo Uoveants prefer a trial by juryo By Counsel Ji,l �VIRGINIA , CITY OF HARRISONBURG; TO- WIT: a This day personally appeared bna Va. Gibbons, one of the moveants in the above- named case , acting for herself and for Hul!lter 11. Gibbons and l.Iary Gibbons Shapp , and whose name is gi gned on the margin hereof for purposes of identification , before me and made oath that the facts stated above of her own knowledge are true, and those made upon information derived from others, she believes to be trus t Given under my hand and seal this 22nd day of August, 1933. Ill �VIRGINIA, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. THE STA'fE CORPOR.\TION COMMISSION ON CONSERVA'rION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA v. CAS1ANDRA 11\YSON ATKINS and others, and 53,561 acras, more or less, of land in Rockingham County, Virginia. filed in the Clerk's Office Rockingham County, Va, t'O\' '1 1932 ~ ~ - - Clerk tJ - Statement made this 8th day of November, 1932, by Thomas L. Yancey, Nettie I. Mauzy, Julia Estes , A. S. Yancey and Frank W. Yancey, in response to an order entered in the above ant it led cause on October 25, 1932. Your respondents say that they are the owners, along with Emma V. Gibbons, Hunter M. Gibbons and Mary Gibbons Snapp, of the mineral rights in and to that tract or parcel of land known as Tract No._//, J , upon the plat made and filed by the said Appraisal Commissioners and containing 124-l/2 acres of land lying about one and a half miles east of Yancey, in Stonewall Magisterial District, Rockingham County, adjoining the land of Crawford, Moubray, Charles Catlett, Trustee, and others, which is described upon the plat submitted by said Board of Appraisers as No. /(oj , and is more fully described in exceptions filed by these exceptants to the report of said comnissioners to which ·exceptions refarence,is hara aude 1or greater certainty of de cri~tion. ~ ~d --o-~ f<.v..A,M/'~.C> -Y ~ A . ~ 1'/0600'{_0 ~ A ~ f~ly"aiiswa~e's"i)~ ~a~: pray a air ex e p ~ - ~~ tha report of the said commission ba sustained, and they will ever pray, etc. c£. 0 ~s:--.....~==---=- Counsel �., _, 'l'H:S ST TE JO ..t.II33IOlr CF VIRGI:rI~ :; ]0:L3 .... P.V~TIO~; j:m D:]V.JLOP:.c:rT r:r '.i'H....: STA1 = 1 V3. c:,0S~~lrn & .J/1.XLh :_L.., 0.1.T...:R3 , ...dD :B1 I.:!TY 1./0 i 'dUU.3i-l:;:J .i!'IV.J ~"-u:;n:::un .,u; SIXTY o. .L~ (52 , bol) AC:t3JJ 0.31 LlLf Lr RJJ~:1:mt lx.. '.JOU~;'.(y . To the Honorab le Roc..ringh s :n tl . ,. Bertrfu1 , Judge of the uircuit Court of ounty . The Petition of '.,.'homas L . Yancey , ~ • .._!i,nrna • Gibbons , F . LI . Yancey , ::Jettie I . :.1auzy , Julia ...,stes , A . 3 . Yrmcey, and .!!'rank H. Y-ncey respect fully represen ts: t hat they alon 6 .• ith the heirs at law,of _the l~te ·1. ,YBncey , r ~""' ~~-- '+- ~ & : . , ~ ~ ~~ whou,ha a brother of your ~etition ers a.re the owners of :-aineral righ s. I in a tr~ct of one hundred and twenty four and one-hal f acres of lan 1 situate about one ~nd one -~lf ~iles ~ast of tanJey in stoneua ll :,Iagister ia l .Distric t of Hoc..r ingh.-m s) ounty and .1 i thin the area pro posed to be condemne d for the establish ment of th3 0henando r.h Nation1::: l ParK , :Jrs . ~~n.na v. Gibbons l.lla her -!hildren O'.'ming in own right the land subject to this illineral right . Your Petition ers except to the report of the ~oard of Appr~isa Co.n ..1iss ioners of the .E'arA. upon the groJ11ds tnat theJ have utt3rly ignored all righ ts ttl 3:x:.ue_ptants and the GibbO!lS. es and Yancey heirs in and to the .nineral rights in said. lands . la ~ These lands are under- with v&luable deposits of .1angsne se ore as ;,~J ill be seen f.com an inspecti on of BuLt..etin 660 J of the Depart,ne u'c of Interior of th United states to whi:)h special .referenc e been spent developi ng th is 1£ nd a reu 1d is '1.'WO here nade . There has Thousand JJOlla rs and the analysis of the iron ore is attached hereto whioh shows ·thet the Mangane se runs a boot 69 . 18 per cent. tone tiae ~x.~ept nts refus d to teke the sumo~ ~ight thousand Dollars for the mineral rights upon the property • ~he ores upon the property have not be e n and the ,nineral rights alone in th3 opinion of .;:Jxceptn nts are worth at the loN"est 'lwelve 'l'housand Doll::1rs . This valuable property is no; d �2 being sought by the Par~ Com.nissio n and they propose to take it from the ~xceptant s without the allowance s of anything whatever t~ for :tl.. ~ .. e ,.__ -- st. ~ - The analysis of the Lastern Lab oratory of 0hester , ~ennsyl~a ia , dated 00tober 17 , 1917 , is atta~hed hereto as is the affidnvit of Dr . S • .1. Yancey as to the condition s of the property . Your ~xcept£nt s end ~etitione rs pray leave to file this Petition or Bxception to the report of the said ppraisal 3oard and ask the uourt for a hearing before a Jury o1' the court thereo I I to the end th2t justice may be done them in this .natter and that they be reason bly co ,npensa ted for the property ·. vhich they propos to ta.Ke . 11 of which is respectfu lly sub.nitted . VI RGI:fIA , CITY OF HARRL30HBUEG , TO- .vit . I , Bessie~. Cooke , a ~otary PubliJ in end for the uity of Harrisonb urg in the .:itate of Virg inia , do certify that •ran.,c ., . Yancey , whose mme is ;::, igned on the .nsrg in hereof for the purpose of identifica tion , this d , y personally appeared before ;11e and. rnsde oath that the facts stated in the foregoing Petition or ~xception 517 �3 are true . Given u.1der ,ny hand this 1st day of October , 1932 . ~lh-G 1rotary Public ) �DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Director BULLETIN 660-J POSSIBILITIES FOR MANGANESE ORE ON CERTAIN UNDEVELOPED TRACTS IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VIRGINIA BY D. F. HEWETT, G, W. STOSE, F. J. KATZ, AND H. D. MISER Prepared in cooperation with the Geological Survey or Virginia · Contributions lo economic geolOff, 1917, Part I (Pa11es 271-296) Published January 21, 1918 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE I �DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Director POSSIBILITIES FOR MANGANESE ORE ON CERTAIN UNDEVELOPED TRACTS IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VIRGINIA. Bulletin 660- J By D. F. HEWETT, G. W. STosE, F. J. KATz, and H. D. MISER. POSSIBILITIES FOR MANGANESE ORE ON CERTAIN UNDEVELOPED TRACTS IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VIRGINIA SCOPE OF INVESTIGATION AND REPORT. Studies of ore deposits aim to interpret the associations of ores, in order that the systematic exploitation of known deposits or the search £or unknown ones may be carried on intelligently. Such studies attempt to determine the source of the materials that make up the ore and associated minerals, the conditions that determine the favorable places £or accumulation, the processes by which the accumulation has been accomplished, and the subsequent processes that have affected the deposit or brought it to view at the surface. It is apparent that any attempt to determine areas that may contain ore deposits now unknown must be based upon a sound even if incomplete hypothesis concerning the origin and mode of occurrence of the ores, and such a hypothesis can be formulated only after many deposits of the particular ore sought have been thoroughly explored and studied. Manganese minerals are widely distributed in Virginia, and a fairly complete explanation of the origin of the large deposits, which are sources of ore, will be possible only when many deposits haYe been examined in detail. Although much remains to be learned in future work, it is believed that sufficient is now known concerning some types of these deposits in Virginia to warr~nt the direction of effort toward exploration in areas where unknown deposits may be found. This report aims to present briefly the results of field work in a part of Virginia where many manganese deposits are known. The examination was directed toward the discovery of areas likely to contain manganese, with the aid of data gathered in a study of the geologic relations of known deposits. The field work was done in cooperation with the Geological Survey of Virginia. As it has brought forth much information concerning the nature and strncture of the rocks associated with the manganese ores, which may greatly aid the operators of producing mines, a more detailed report will be published later by the Virginia Survey. BY D. I!'. HEWETT, G. W. STOSE• .If. J. KATZ, AND H. D. MISER Prepared in cooperation with the Geological Survey of Virginia Contributions to economic geology, 1917, Parl I (Pages 271- 296) Published January 21, 1918 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1918 271 52.1 52 �272 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1917-PART I. AREA EXAMINED AND METHODS EMPLOYED. CONTENTS. 'Scope of investigation and report ............. .. ...................... ... ~ .. . Area examined and methods employed ...................... .............. . The manganese deposits ............ .. ...................... ............. . General features ...................... ...................... .......... . Rocks with which the ore is associated ...................... ...... . ... . Relation of deposits to structural features ... . ...................... .... . Relation of deposits to surface features ...................... ........... . Origin of the deposits ...................... .... .......... ............ . Tracts recommended for exploration ...................... ................ . Basis of recommendations ...................... ...................... . Tract 1. .................... ...... .. ... .......... ......... .......... . . Tract 2 ...................... .................. .. .. .. ...... . ........ . . Tract 3...................... ...................... ....... ·.. ......... . Tract 4 ......... .. ... .......... .. ...................... ...... ......... . Tract 5 ...................... ...................... ...... - · - · - -... · · ·. Tract 6.................... ... .. .. ... - - - - . - . - .... · · · · · · · · · · · · - · · · · · - - · Page. 271 272 273 273 273 Northwestern Virginia has long been the source of much of the manganese ore mined in the United States, and at times it has been the scene of active prospecting in the hope that other extensive deposits like that at the Crimora mine might be discovered. The manganese deposits lie along the east side of the Shenandoah Valley, at the foot of the Blue Ridge. For the present investigation a narrow belt was selected extending from Front Royal at the north the _outh. ro so~t-oLWa.y to a point about 10 · (See fig. 26.) This strip is abo~miles lcmg and averages 4 miles 277 280 281 282 282 283 287 289 290 292 294 ILLUSTRATION S. Page. FIGURE 26. Index map of northern Virginia, showing location of undeveloped tracts recommended as favorable for prospecting for manganese .. 27. Generalized structure section of the west front of the Blue Ridge and the adjacent part. of the Shenandoah Valley, showing the normal relations of the rocks and their former extent before removal by erosion .. ...................... .......... ... ...... . 28. Sketches showing vertical cross sections of four manganese mines in the Shenandoah Valley-Blue .Ridge region, representing four types of deposits ....................... ..................... . 29. Sketch geologic map of region near Elkton, Va., showing location of tracts 1 and 3 .. .. . . ................. . ..................... . 30. Sketch geologic map of area south of Lyndhurst, Va., showing location of tract 2 ...................... ...................... ... . 31. Sketch geologic map of region near Waynesboro, Va., showing location of tract 4 ....................... ............. . ....... . 32. Sketch geologic map of area south of Luray, Va., showing location of tract 5 ....................... ....................... ...... . 33. Sketch geologic map of area east of Front Royal, Va., showing location of tract 6 ...................... ...................... ... . 272 25 276 278 284 287 291 293 295 50 75 I00 MILES FIGURE 26.-Index map of northern Virginia, showing location of undeveloped tracts r ecommended as favorable for prospecting fol' manganese. Tracts are numbered In the . order of prospective promise. wide, and the Crimora mine occupies a central position in it. A preliminary geologic map of the area has been prepared, and this will be published in the report of the Geological Survey of Virginia. The method of study was Yery similar to that which would have been employed in making a detailed areal map of the region~ Traverses were run along the roads and up the streams that cross the belt nearly at right angles to the trend of the bedded rocks. By this means the attitude of the beds was determined and the boundaries of the rock formations were located. The adjacent mountains were climbed where more information was needed or where a general Yiew was desired £or the purpose of location. This was essential in many places on account of the inadequate exposures of the rocks in the �MANGANE SE ORE IN SHENANDO AH VALLEY, VA, 275 places it forms the front ridges. The formation in this region is generally made up of three massive cliff-maki ng ledges separated by thinner-be dded sandstones. The thickness in the measured section given below, the best-exposed section in this region, is 500 feet, but it appears elsewhere to be much greater, possibly 1,000 feet. Section of Erwin qiiartzite in Blue Ridge n ear Stanley, Va. White sandstone full of scolithus; crumbles readily to sand. Rarely exposed in place. Upper layers harder; weather red to rusty and porous ____________________ ____ _______ _ Upper cliff: Hard white thick-bedde d vitreous quartzite. Contains some scolithus ----------- ----------- --------Partly covered, probably crumbly white sandstone _________ _ Middle cliff: Hard thick massive beds of bluish-whit e vitreous quartzite _________________________________ ___ _____ _ Covered, probably crumbly sandstone ___________ ___ _______ _ Lower cliff: Hard white vitreous quartzite. Contains some scolithus ----------- ------ - ----------- ----------- ------ Feet. 120 40 90 80 70 100 500 The cliff-maki ng ledges consist largely of massive beds of dense white quartzite, some of which are 15 to 20 feet thick without a visible trace of bedding. Many of the beds contain casts of worm tubes ( scolithus) , and as these were vertical when the sediments were deposited they may be used to determine the bedding of the rocks, which is at right angles to them. This formation is the same as the Erwin quartzite of northern Tennessee and has also been correlated with the Antietam sandstone of northern Virginia. It is believed, however to represent not only the Antietam but also a lower quartzite the Montalto quartzite of southern Pennsylva nia, which is a mem' , her of the Harpers shale. In the Shenando ah Valley the Erwin quartzite is overlain by a great thickness of limestone and shale, but. only those beds immediately adjacent to the mountain front need h_ere be co~sidered. The formation that normally lies above the Erwm quartzite -the Shady dolomite -is composed largely of coarse dolomite containin g chert nodules and beds of impure shaly limestone. Because of the solubility of the dolomite it readily breaks dow~ ~nto grains and finally weathers into red clay and is generally not visible at the surface. It therefore' forms a deep-red granular and clayey soil containing chert fragments and underlies low valleys. Some yellow laminated clay or ocherous layers at the base represent banded argillaceous limestones. Unallotte d dolomite has been exposed only in a few shafts and tunnels in the region. The formation is the same as the Shady l~mestone of northern Tennessee and is equivalen t to the Tomstown hmestons of southern Pennsylva nia and Maryland . It is reported to be 1,800 feet 24998°-1 8-2 MANGANE SE ORE IN SHENANDO AH VALLEY: VA. 273 lowlands and the necessity of resketchin g the topograph ic base map where it was inaccurate . Where the rocks were found so broken by weatherin g or so covered by rock waste that the bedding could not be determine d, the structure was inf erred by the study of surface forms and the distributio n of distinctive debris derived -from the several formation s. In addition to the traverses for the purpose of making the map and determini ng the structure of the rocks, manganes e and iron mines, prospect pits, and holes of any sort where informati on as to the relation of the ore to the bedrock might be observed were examined . At only a few places was the unaltered limestone in the mine pits visible, but the relation of the ore to the residual clay and to the wash was carefully scrutinize d. The clay in most of the deeper mines and in some of the shallow pits was found to preserve the original bedding of the impure dolomite and limestone, so that the structural relations of the ore to these rocks could be determine d. THE MANGA NESE DEPOSIT S. GENERAL FEATURE S. The known manganes e deposits of this part of Virginia are masses · of oxides that are associated with rocks of several different types and have diverse structural relations. Some bodies of the oxides are rather large and so pure that they may+be mined and shipped witho"ut prelminar y treatment . Other masses are composed of nodules dissemina ted through clay m proportio ns that have a wide range. The material from such deposits must be washed to procure ore of high enough grade to warrant shipping. A complete discussion of the origin of the deposits should include geologic data of several kinds, such as the distributio n of manganesebearing rocks and minerals, the chemical properties of manganes e compounds and natural minerals, the character of the ground water of the region, the characteri stics and stratigrap hic rebtions of the rocks with which the ores are associated, the local structure of the rocks, and the surface features resulting from the erosional processes that have affected the region. Brief statement s concernin g data of the last three kinds only are presented in this report, as they are used in outlining favorable areas for the accumulat ion of the ores. ROCKS WITH WHICH THE ORE IS ASSOCIAT ED. The rocks which occur in the vicinity of the manganes e deposits of the Blue Ridge and adjacent part of the Shenando ah Valley include sandstone , shale, limestone, and dolomite and the older crystalline rocks on which these rest. The oldest crystallin e rock present in the area is granite. The other crystallin e rocks are greenstone, greenston e schist, and sericite schist, which were originally molten 5 �274 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1917-PART I. lavas. The massive greenstone is very resistant to weathering-that is, it is not readily soluble in water nor easily broken up by frost and rain-and therefore it forms the highest summits of the Blue Ridge throughout this area. Immediately overlying the crystalline rocks are sandstones and quartzites, composed in part of unassorted debris derived from the disintegration of the older crystalline rocks. These beds range from soft arkose through harder arkosic sandstone to hard gray sandstone and dark ferruginous quartzite. With them are associated beds of slaty argillaceous sandstones. Some of the basal beds have rounded grains and small pebbles of quartz, which are usually clear and transparent, though some have an opaline blue color. Besides quartz there are grains of feldspar, generally chalky white from weathering, Hnd considerflJ)le clay and iron oxide. A spotted sericite schist, representing a thin amygdaloidal lava flow, occurs at several places interbedded with the lowest sedimentary beds. These rocks have been called the Unicoi formation in northern Tennessee, and that name will be used in this report. They are equivalent to the Weverton sandstone and Loudoun formation of Maryland and norLhern Virginia. Their thickness in this area is estimated to be 1,750 to 2,000 feet. The formation is best exposed in the cuts of the Southern Railway 4 miles east of Front Royal but is also well shown on the Simmons Gap road south of Elkton and elsewhere in the belt between the main Blue Ridge and the front foothills. Overlying the Unicoi formation are dark-gray shales, slates, and thin sandstones which in northern Tennessee constitute the Hampton shale. The shales and slates are mostly sandy and weather to hackly outcrops, so that in many_ places their original charact~r and bedding can not be clearly discerned. Some of the shale is dark and banded but weathers to soft buff rock. The formation is the same as the lower part of the Harpers shale of northern Virginia. It is estimated to be about 400 feet thick in this area but may be much thicker, as it is in general highly folded. Typical rocks of the Hampton and Unicoi formations are easily distinguish~d, but the two formations were not separately mapped everywhere m the field, because there are shaly rocks in the Unicoi and hard sandstones and arkoses in the Hampton. All these rocks weather more easily than either the underlying greenstone or the overlying massive white quartzite, so that they form depressions or subordinate r~dge~ between the main Blue Ridge on the east and the outer foothill ridges on the west. The next higher formation is a massive white quartzite, the outerops of which make prominent ridges in th~s region. It is ~ere called the Erwin quartzite. The western footh1lls of the Blue R!dge throughout most of, the area are composed of this rock, and in many 276 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1917-PART I. thick in the vicinity of Natural Bridge, and it has probably about the same thickness here. The next recognized formation of the limestone group is a shale called Watauga in northern Tennessee. Its characteristic color is reddish purple, but in this area it is generally so much weathered that it is buff colored. In places it is weathered to purple and buff banded ocherous clay, as at the ocher mine 10 miles southwest of Luray. It contains thin calcareous shales and blue limestone beds and in places thinly laminated ripple-marked sandstone, which is best displayed east of Front Royal. It is the equivalent of the 'Waynesboro shale of southern Pennsylvania and Maryland, which is conspicuously purple and sandy. The thickness in this area could not be determined, because of poor exposures. The formation is reported to be 900 feet thick in the vicinity of Natural Bridge, where it is better exposed, but it does not appear to be so thick in this area. Above the Watauga 27. -Generalized structure section of the west front of t he Blue Ridge and the adjacent part of the Shenandoah Valley, showing the normal relations of the rocks and their former extent (dashed lines) before removal by erosion. FIG URE shale are limestones and dolomites that have not been differentiated in this area, and as they need not be considered in the present connection, they will not be described. All the sedimentary rocks above described are geologically very old. No fossils, except the worm tubes in the Erwin qnartzite, were found in them in this arra, but casts of shells and other fossils have been found in the equivalent formations elsewhere, anrl they are therefore known to belong in the Cambrian anrl to be among the oldest fossiliforous rocks known in the eastern part of the continent. The sediments were nearly horizontal when they were laid down in the sea. The beds are now in most places steeply inclined and folded into long troughs (synclines) and arches (anticlines) whose axes are parallel to the northeasterly trend of the mountain ridges. ( See fig. 27.) After being folded and wrinkled the rocks were worn down by processes of atmospheric erosion, and the softer and more soluble rocks were removed from the higher regions. The underlying quartzites, shales, and greeristones were thus exposed and, because of �MANGANJ~SE OHE IN SHENANDOAH VALLBY, VA. MANGANESE ORE IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA. 279 was made by one of the present writers in May, 1917, and a report is now in preparation. Near Elkton 1 manganese ore .was mined -from a U-shaped trough in the ,vatauga shale, but no other deposits with such associations are kno\1 n. At the Crimora mine over 300 1000 tons of manganese ore has been recovered from a deposit about: 20 acres in., extent that lies in a trough formed by theErwin quartzite. The trough trends N. 40 ~ E. and is therefore shglitly inclined to the ridges adjacent to the Blue Ridge, which limit it, and it plunges southwest under the low plain that: here forms a part of the Shenandoah Valley. T~e trough is bounded on the northwest by an anticline, which also plunges southwest into the valley. Much ore has been recovered at depths ranging from 10 to 900 feet below the surface, but the limits of ore toward the- southwest end of t e eepenmg trough are not known. Explorations of the deposit at the Crimora mine, which has yielded more manganese than any other in the region east of the Allegheny Mountains, and of other deposits that have similar relations confirm the tentative conclusion that troughs in which the beds have low dips are the most favorable sites for the accumulation of ore. Other deposits of manganiferous iron and manganese pre which occupy troughs in the Erwin quartzite occur at the Mount Torry · mine, near Sherando, and the Red Mountain mine, 5 miles east of Pekin siding, on the Norfolk & ·w estern Railway, Augusta County. 3. In the deposits of the third type manganese oxides replace porous sandstone along crushed zones in the Erwin quartzite. One deposit of this type has been prospected in the southeastern-part of the Mount: Torry tract, south of Sherando, and another on Dry Run, 9 miles northeast of Luray, is being actively mined by the Compton Manganese Co. Such crushed zones appear to be irregular in distribution. They yield siliceous ore and, as th'?Y occur in hard rocks, are expensive to exploit. 4. A fourth type of deposit is represented by that explored near Dargan, Washington County, Md. 2 ( fig. 28, D). This deposit occurs along a fault zone in clay derived in part from the decomposition of limestone (Tomstown) on one side and shale (Harpers) on the other. Such deposits appear to be uncommon, and no others are known in the belt from Potomac River to Vesuvius, Va. They appear to yield small quantities of ore. 5. The fifth type of deposit in this region of which the structural relations are known is represented by that at Midvale, explored by the Rockbridge Manganese & Iron Co. 3 ( See fig. 28, C.) Another of 1 Hewett, D. F., Some manganese mines in Virginia and Maryland: U. S. Geo!. Survey Bull. 640, pp. 42, 61-67, 1916 . 2 Idem, pp. 42, 69-71. • Idem, pp, 42, 54-60, 277 their resistance to erosion, now form the mountains, whereas the limestone underlies the valleys. A generalized cross section sl)_owing the rocks of the region as they are now and their extent before they were eroded is given in figure 27. The manganese deposits are not confined to a single thin group of beds but lie in or .over beds that range from the upper part of the Erwin quartzite to the lower part of the Watauga shale, stratigraphically 2,000 feet higher. Most of the deposits, however, occur in banded clays that are believed to have been derived by weathering in place from the lower 200 feet of the Shady dolomite. RELATION OF DEPOSITS TO STRUCTURAL FEATURES. Manganese oxides are widespread in the Shenandoah Valley, but as most of the rocks near by are deeply decayed, the structural associations of many small bodies of the oxides are obscure. Studies of a number of deposits that were large enough to warrant extensive exploration, however, show that at least five structural types may be recognized and that in most places the local structure of the adjacent rocks has determined the form of the deposits and in large measure their areal extent and their persistence below the surface. The five types of deposits will be briefly described. Figure 23 shows cross sections of four deposits which have been studied recently and which probably include those types that are sources of most of the ore now mined in northwestern Virginia. 1. The commonest type of deposit in the belt under consideration is that represented at the old Kendall & Flick shaft, south of Elkton, but also shown at the Vesuvius mine, 1½ miles northeast of Vesuvius, Rockbridge County, and elsewhere in the region (fig. 28, B). These deposits occur in a 200-foot zone of decomposed shale and cherty dolomite that overlies the upper beds of the Erwin quartzite, where the beds dip toward the Shenandoah Valley at angles that range from 30° to 60°. The structure near these deposits may be termed monoclinal, as all the beds are similarly inclined. In such localities the upper surface of the Erwin quartzite forms the slope of a conspicuous straight ridge, and float ore from the deposits is found over the gentle slopes near by on the northwest. Under these structural conditions irregular bodies of manganese oxides are found here and there in a narrow belt of decomposed shale and dolomite parallel to the outcrop of the Erwin quartzite. The bodies of manganese oxides appear to have no relation to the transverse ravines that rise in the Blue Ridge and cross the quartzite. So far as available records show, no deposits of manganese ore or manganiferous iron ore occurring under these conditions in this area have yielded more than 25,000 tons, and many have been abandoned before producing as much as 5,000 tons. �278 UON1'RIB01'lON8 TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, l!J17-PART I. 2. Deposits of another type occur in clays that: fill troughs formed by the .upper surface of the Erwin quartzite. The best 1llustration NW. SE. A SE . NW. 1,500' 1,000' soo' r"AULTAND OR£800IES\ 500• 280 CONT'RIBUT'JO Nl'l TO ECONOMTC GEOLOGY, 1917-PART I. this type is now being explored on the Kennedy property, 3 miles southwest of Sherando, Augusta County. In these deposits manganese oxides replace the clay zones of sediments that fill an ancient river channel (Midvale) or that form nn ancient alluvial fan or gravel terrace (Kennedy). It is a coincidence that the Kennedy deposit is near the outlet of an ancient stream that rose in the high ridges several miles to the south and flowed in a trough directed toward the depos· ,. Such deposits are flat masses that conform to the depressions in which the sediments were laid down. Exploration by drilling at the Kennedy mine is reported to show the presence of a large quantity of ore, and it is possible that here, as with deposits in troughs, the size may depend upon favorable local structural features. The field work on which this report is based was directed especially toward the interpretation of the structure of the beds making up the Erwin ·quartzite, Shady dolomite, and Watauga shale. The tracts in the belt examined that are considered favorable to the accumulation of manganese or manganiferous iron ore are those which are underlain by troughs of the upper beds of the Erwin quartzite, from the surface of which the products of decay of the overlying Shady dolomite have not been removed. The six tracts that are described in the following pages fulfill these conditions, but the troughs are· considered favorable in proportion to the size of the area that has drained into them, or to the abundance of float ore present and the thoroughness of the decay of the rocks over the Erwin quartzite. A number of faults have been recognized in this belt, but as the factors which determine the parts of the fault zones that are favorable to accumulation of ore are not known, and as the only deposit known to lie along a fault is not large, it would not be wise to direct exploration along such faults. RELATION OF DEPOSITS TO SURFACE FEATURES. D 28.-Sketches showing vertical cross sections of four manganese mines in the Shenandoah Valley.BJuc Ridge region, representing four types of deposits. A, Cross section S. 48 ° E. through the Crimora manganese mine, Augusta County, Va. , in which the ore lies iu a trough in the Erwin quartzite; B, cross section s. 52° E. through tbe old Kendall & F·lick mine, south of Elkton, Va., in which the ore occurs as pockets I~ clay immediately above the top of tbe Erwin quartzite, wbl~h has a monocllnal structure; C, cross section S. 65° E. through the Midvale mine, Rockbridge County, Va., in which the ore occurs in gravel in a stream channel cut on nearly vertical limestone; D, cross section S. 65 ° E. through the mine at Dargan, Md., near Harpers Ferry, W. Va., in which the ore occm·s in clay along a fault zone. FIGURE of this type is the deposit worked nt the Crimora mine, Augusta County.' (See fig. 28. A.) A detailed study of the Crimora mine : Hall. C. E., Geological notes on the manganese deposits of Crlmora, Va, : Am. Inst. Mm. Eng. Trans., vol. 20, p. 46, 1892. In a recent report 1 it has been suggested that several manganese deposits in the region between Potomac River and Midvale, R9ckLridge County, Va., occur under conditions that make it appear that they were formed during or soon after the period in which the valleyfloor peneplain was being established. This peneplain has been considered to be of early Tertiary age and for brevity it will here be referred to as the early Tertiary peneplain. It was also noted that several deposits crop out at the level of this plain, without regard to the extent to which the plain was locally djssected. The present investigation has shown that the outcrops of a number of additional 1 Hewet t, D. F., op. cit., pp. 37-71. �MANGANESE ORE IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA. 283 MANGANESE ORE IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA. eoverbg such deposits is recommended. Formerly such deposits ,Yere prospected by means _o f pits and trenches, but recently improvements in methods of employing the churn drill make it most useful for this purpose, and several operators use it extensively. ..E.Yenif deposits should exist.under-these_ tracts, they may be covered by gravel or wash from ~ neighboring s~es. as at the Crimora mine, and exploration by drilling is peculiarly adapted to such ~ditions. These tracts are regarded as favorable for exploration largely because they have the same structural and stratigraphic features as other areas within which lar e de osits of manganese and manganiferous iron ores are known and bear a -similar relation to the surface. They are described in the o.rder of greatest promise, the one in which the conditions are believed to be mos ttvontb1u-first. ~ments o:f manganese minerals have been :found on-the sur:f ace' 6t many tracts, but as such fragments are widespread in this region they are not especially significa,nt. Positive assurance that these tracts contain "·orkable deposits of ore can not be given, but to those interested in searching for unknown deposits of these ores the tracts should offer an attractive field. 281 deposits lie close to the position of this peneplain, but also that the lowest point of one deposit-that at Red Mountain, northeast of Vesuvius-occurs 400 to 500 feet above the level of this plain, and that the surface near the Lyndhurst mine is not 50 feet below the early Tertiary plain, as stated in a previous report by the senior author,1 but nearly 250 feet below it. Therefore, while the conditions during or soon after the early Tertiary peneplanation appear to have been particularly favorable to the accumulation of certain deposits of manganese and possibly of iron ores, others were probably formed at an earlier and some at a later period. Evidence collected during this investigation shows that although four periods of planation may be recognized,2 the recent physiographic history has probably be.en even more complex. Although field work has shown that the Midvale and Kennedy deposits are in alluvial material laid dow_n near the level of the early Tertiary plain and the region contain_s many remnants o:f gravel on this plain, there is no way of recognizing, in advance of exploration, the places where these gravels may contain deposits of manganese ore. According to the hypothesis previously stated, t_hat troughs present tion of man anese ores, the most favorable structure for the ace :i;tiary t o e__roug s which pitch at a low angle under the earl p ain would be the most favorable and the arts of the trouO'hs most esi-ts.. should be those where the top o:f the to rece 1 rn f e 00 feet be ow h Erwin quartzite is not mo oft e groun . TRACT 1. Tract 1 lies 2 miles soutl:west of Elkton, within a mile of the Norfolk & Western Railway. (See fig. 29.) The west front of the mountains in the vicinity of Elkton has many sharp offsets in its general southwest course. From Swift Run this course is a little south of west for 1½ miles to a point where the mountain front is slightly offset to the northwest. From that point the front runs wcst~southwest across Hawkshill Creek for 1¾ miles to a sharp offset to the east of about half a mile. The southwestward course then continues for three-fourths of a mile but is interrupted by a second sharp offset to the east of about a quarter of a mile. At Gap Run, three-quarters o:f a mile beyond, the mountain front is slightly offset in the opposite direction, to the west, but the south,vest trend is maintained. At Swift Run the mountain .front is offset to the southeast, and beyond Elk Run the front ridge breaks down to low knolls :for over a mile. Along the west flank of the mountain§, immediately west of the line just traced, there are gravel-covered terraces that slope toward Shenandoah RiYer and are deeply trenched by cross streams. No_ rock exposures occur in the gravel-covered belt, but several mine shafts and test pits show that it is underlain by lower members of the Shenandoah group of limestones.(Shady dolomite and Watauga shale). The gravel-covered area is 1 to 1¼ miles wide, except for a ORIGIN OF THE DEPOSITS. A hypothesis of the origin of the manganese deposits of the region is here presented briefly, in so far as it bears on the. conditions that are most favorable for the accumulation of manganese oxides. The purpose of this report does not permit the presentation of evidence. bearing upon some phases of the hypothesis. Definite evidence concerning the source. of the manganese that now makes up the workable deposits is lacking; but, from the data at hand, it appears that the manganese was originally widely disseminated as carbonate in the dolomite and limestone and possibly in silicates in other rocks found in the ne.ighborhood of the deposits. The manganese was dissolved as bicarbonate and transported along established channels of circulation to the places where the oxides are now found, in clays produced by the previous decay o:f sericitic shales, limestone, and dolomite. The. oxides were probably deposited when and where the solutions containing manganese bicarbonate Hewett, D. F., op. cit., p. 61. " Watson, T. L., Drainage changes in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia: Virginia Univ. Phllos. Soc. Bull., Sci. ser., vol. 1, p. 355, 1913. 1 24998°-18-3 521 �282 CONTRIBUTI ONS TO ECONOMTC GEOLOGY, HH7_:_T'ART J. met oxygen-bea ring waters. Manganese oxide appears to have been deposited largely by replacing the clay, although small quantities were deposite.d in open spaces. The largest deposits 0£ manganese were • formed in places where the maximum amount 0£ mano-anese in 0 solut10n met the most favorable conditions for deposition. Most complete rock decay and, therefore, solution 0£ the maximum proportion 0£ manganese in the rocks are probably attained in regions 0£ low relief having a thick cover 0£ vegetation, under the influence of a warm, moist climate. As the process 0£ solution would be most active in those parts 0£ the region above the average level 0£ streams and above ground-wat er level, more manganese should be delivered in solution to the belt of country where the ridges and hills meet the p lains than elsewhere. I£ not diverted by the local rock structure the maximum flow of solutions near the surface would have occurred near or directly under surface stream channels. Where oxidation was possible deposits formed in the stream channels themselves As deeper circulation 0£ surface waters was controlled by rock structure, troughs would have received the maximum circulation, although fault zones might have been locally favored. According to this hypothesis structural troughs were the most favorable channels £or circulation, and i.£ suitable conditions £or oxidation and deposition existed they should be the most favorable places for accumulatio n. Many reports have been published which describe briefly the associations of manganese ore in certain ·mines in Virginia, but most 0£ the available information concerning the stratigraphi c and structural relations of the deposits in Virginia is contained in reports that are based on comprehens ive studies 0£ many deposits in a large area. 1 . The relation 0£ the hypotheses of origin 0£ the manganese deposits set forth in these reports will be discussed in a later report. 284 CONTRIBUTI ONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 191'7-PART I. . short stretch at the mouth 0£ Hawksbill Creek, where it is reduced in width to about a quarter 0£ a mile by the eastward bend 0£, Shenandoah River. West 0£ the gravel terraces at the mouth 0£ Hawksbill Creek, especially along Shenandoah River, there are exposures 0£ the Watauga shale and overlying beds of limestone. TRACTS RECOMM ENDED FOR EXPLORA .TION. BASIS OF RECOMMEN DATIONS. Description s 0£ six undeveloped tracts along the west front of the Blue Ridge are presented below. These tracts appear to present features favorable £or the accumulatio n of deposits 0£ manganese and mangani£er ous iron ores, and prospecting with the view to dis1 Penrose, R. A. F ., Manganese, its uses, ores, and deposits : Arkansas Geo!. Survey Ann. Rept. for 1890, vol. 1, pp. 401-412, 1891. Hall, C. E., Geological notes on the manganese ore deposits of Crlmora, Va.: Am. Inst. Min. Eng. Trans., vol. 20, pp. 46-49, 1892. Watson, T. L., Mineral resources of Virginia, Virginia Geo!. Survey, 1907. Harder, E. C., Manganese deposits of the United States: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 427, 1910. Hewett, D. F., Some manganese deposits in Virginia and Maryland: U. S. Geo!, Survey Bull. 640, pp. 37-71, 1916, Y2. 0 L--L-L--'-- l - -- 3 M I LES 2 --J.----'---....J FIGURE 29.-Sketch geologic map of region near Elkton, Va., showing location of tracts 1 and 3. The western foothills 0£ the Blue Ridge are made up 0£ white quartzite (Erwin), whose structure determined the irregular course of the mountain front. Thus from Swift Run westward £or 1½ miles, where the mountain front is straight and trends west-southwest, the quartzite beds strike about parallel to the mountain front and dip 50°-60° NW., passing under the limestone 0£ the valley. The small offset in the mountain front at Hawksbill Creek and the larger one east of y ancey are produced by a detached anticlinal ridge of quartzite which is separated from the main quartzite ridge by a �. MANGANESE ORE IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA. 287 prese~t, as the manganiferous nodules in th~ Yancey prospect pits occUI: 1~ rnd p.ehh]J! .clay, although chert fragments, such as are characteristic of the Shady dolomite were not seen in it. This area though not as promising as the embayment east of Yancey-still ha~ suffici 1 favorable indications to suggest that further pr~spectino0 shoulrl be done jp it. ~-- - TRACT 2. Tract 2 lies between two spurs of the Blue Ridge about 3 miles southwest of Sherando and 6 miles south-southwest of Lyndhurst in Augusta County. (See ' fig. 30.) It is about midway between the Kennedy mine, to the n o r th w e st , and the Mount Torry mine, to the southeast, and is drained by Mills Creek. . A lumber railroad over which ore from these two mines is shipped passes just north of the tract and joins the Norfolk & Western Railway near Lipscomb. A spur of the lumber road f o rm e r 1y r a n southwestward up Mills Creek, but the rails and ties have been removed. The mountain spurs on both sides of the tract are composed of white quart:tite (Erwin) , and the structure O of each is anticlinal. 'la z MILES · Both anticlines plunge FIGURE 30.-Sketch geologic map of area south of Lyndnortheastward, so that hurst• Va., showing location of tract 2. in this direction ·the quartzite descends below the limestones and shales of t~e Shenandoah Valley. (See fig. 30.) The area between the ~purs 1s a northeastward-plunging syclinal trough and therefore 1s probably underlain by limestone and possibly some shale, but no outcrops are to be seen, as the surface is covered with quartzite MANGANESE ORE IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA. 285 shallow synclinal valley. Both the anticline and the syncline plunge sharply northeast just east of Hawksbill Creek, and the quartzite abruptly passes under the limestone of the valley. Southwest of Hawksbill Creek the folds plunge more gently southwestward, and the quartzite again passes below the level of the gravel-covered plain in that direction. The syncline widens in this direction, as the main Didge of the mountain here strikes more southerly and diverges from the outlying ridge, and the limestone embayment is there£ore large and open. The offset in the mountain front three-quarters of a mile farther south is apparently produced by two similar though smaller folds, which plunge south, and the northw.est offset at Gap Run is formed by two other flat, gentle folds, which plunge north. The offset east of Swift Run is apparently produced by a northeastward-plunging anticline and syncline, for, although the bedding in the sandstone was not observed, the rocks seen along the road crossing the syncline are believed to be the basal sandy beds of the limestone group. Beyond this offset the mountain front is straight, although the front ridge breaks down beyond Elk Run, where the quartzite is weakened by crushing and probable minor faulting. Although the white quartzite beds have a general steep westerly dip on the front foothills they flatten out toward the east and cap the tops of several spurs and ridges some distance back from the front, where they are nearly horizontal or even lie in gentle synclines. To the east of and therefore beneath the white quartzite there are shales and arkosic sandstones which are somewhat folded and form a belt half a mile to 1½ miles wide. These basal Cambrian beds rest upon pre-Cambrian greenstone and greenstone schists which generally form the main mass of the Blue Ridge. There is a group of manganese mines about 1 mile south of Elkton, which will be referred to as the Elkton mines. The old workings are known as the Kendall & Flick mines and include the Niesswaner shaft and Bartell shaft, which have been described by Harder 1 and Hewett. 2 O,_Ee of the m!!!..e · ow beino- worked by the United States Manganese Co. These mines are on a terrace at the base of the quartzite ridge between Swift Run and Hawksbill Creek. Three of the mines, including the easternmost, which alone is active at present, lie close to the top of the northwestward-dipping quartzite, and apparently there is no synclinal structure of the bedrock that determined the concentration of these deposits of ore. As the outer mine, which is about 1,200 feet from the base of the mountain, struck the purple Watauga shale in its deep shaft, the steep 1 Hard"er, E. C., Manganese deposits of the United States: U. S. Geo!. Survey Bull. 427, 1910, p. 57. 2 Hewett, D. F., Some manganese mines In Virginia and Maryland: U. S. Geo!. Survey Bull. 640, pp. 61-67, 1916. �286 288 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GE9LOGY, 1917-PART 1: westward dip of the beds probably continues out that far, and the small syncline at Hawksbill Creek must therefore plunge steeply northeastward. Just east of Swift Run there is a manganiferous iron prospect which is in strike with the three Elkton mines, but the cmbayment to the south, between the prospect and the quartzi.te ridge, which is covered with mountain wash, has not been prospected so far as known and may be worthy of investigation, as the structure of the inclosing rocks is apparently synclinal and favorable for the accumulation of ore. Southeast of Yancey a manganese prospect north of the small run has been opened by J. H. Crawford and another south of the run by W. B. Yan~. These two proiip - havy direct bearing on the tract to which particular a~ention i he· direc eel. The Crawford prospect s 1aft, w 1c is 75 feet deep, is on the south side of the embayment in the mountain front 1½ miles east of Yancey station on the Norfolk & Western Railway. This embayment is a triangular area about half a mile long and ' covers about 180 acres. It lies in the reentrant angle between the white quartzite ridges locally called Little Piney Mountain ( on the northwest) and Big Piney Mountain ( on the southeast). In the saddle between these hills the upper quartzite beds of the Erwin formation lie horizontal in the bottom of the syncline. The quartzite hills diverge toward the southwest, and the . syncline plunges in the same direction, so that the trough between the hills incloses the overlying Shad_y dolomite. At the Crawfo~-d shaft, half a mile south of the head oTihe tr-Qi, manganese nodules occur in red clay with chert fragments, which is the characteristic he entire embayment, therefore, residuum of the Shady dolomite. is probably underlain by the Shady dolomite, but it is completely covered by wash from the quartzite mountains. The only means of determining the thickness of the wash and the presence of manganese ore beneath the alluvial covering is by drilling or by digging test pits. '{'he synclinal structure of the quartzite in the surrounding mountains, the ~vorably located basin fi1led with -wash and underlain b gently dippmg eds of the Shady dolomite or its residual clay, ~nd,tlie-known pr~ ce of manganese or~_i~Jhe...t.1.:aughjustify the recommendation that this tnangu ar area be thoroughly pros- / pected for manganese. The conditions in the embayment in the mbuntain just south of this tract are not so well determined. The structure of the quartzite hills around the offset at the north end of the embayment is obscure and is inferred chiefly from the topography, but at the offset at the south end, just north of Gap Run, the quartzite lies in a very slaallow, broad syncline. The alluvial filling in this embayment appears to be heavy, but the ~ y dolomite or its residual red clay is probably I ( CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1917-PART I. wash from the mountains. The anticlinal spurs on both sides of the plunging synclinal trough diverge to the northeast, so that the limestone belt widens · in this direction, forming a wedge-shaped area which is about 1 mile long in a northeasterly direction and about three-quarters of a mile wide between the points of the spurs. ':['his wedge-shaped area merges on its northeast side with the great lime. stone and shale belt of the Shenandoah Valley. This synclinal embayment closely resembles the ad_jace_nt ~mbayment on the southeast, in which the Mount Torry mme 1s situated and which also is a synclinal trough. This mine produced a large amount of iron ore 40 or 50 years ago and was abandoned because of the manganese in the ore. Later it was extensively prospec~ed for manganese ore, and some ore was shipped. Both the mangamferous iron ore and the manganese ore are now being mined by a company which has, leased the property. This embayment is larger than that on Mills Creek and the syncline is deeper, and although bedrock is not exposed at the surface within the basin, fresh Shady dolomite was encountered in a shaft near the head of the valley. West of tract 2 there is a smaller embayment of limestone in the mountain front. This embayment occupies a northeastward-plunging synclinal trough, at the mouth of which the Kennedy mine is located. Back in the mountain the syncline deepens and forms a narrow , valley which once inclosed limestone between two high, rocky quartzite ridges. This limestone has probably all been removed by erosion, but some may still be present, deeply covered by the quartzite wash. Even if limestone or its residual clay is present, the area is too narrow to expect any large deposit of ore to occur in it, for the ore was probably largely carried out to the mountain :front by the former underground draina.ge and deposited in the clays in which the Kennedy mine is located. The accumulation of ore in the deposits in which the Mount Torry and Kennedy mines are located was greatly aided by the synclinal structure of the quartzite and overlying limestone. The ore is found in t:he undisturbed residual clay :from the limestone and in overlying clay mixed with quartzite gravel and boulders, where solutions deposited the manganese oxides in crevices or bedding planes, and in nodules and masses replacing the clay. The structural conditions in tract 2 appear to be equally favorable for the accumulation of manganese ore in commercial quantity, and although no manganese ore has been reported there, possibly because of the deep filling of t:he basin with wash, the favorable structural relations warrant search for the ore. It is therefore recommended that the tract be thoroughly prospected by drilling. , �MANGANESE ORE IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA. 291 MANGANESE ORE IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA. Shenandoah Valley is underlain by Cambrian limestones, dolomites, and shales of the lower part of the Shenandoah group, but these beds are not exposed near the foot of the mountains because of the thick covering of mountain wash consisting of gravel, sand, and clay. West of Sawmill Ridge there is a low, narrow hill whose anticlinal character is well shown on the road up Sawmill Run, where the anticline plunges south. The narrow valley between this hill and Sawmill Ridge is therefore synclinal and probably contains some Shady dolomite overlying the quartzite. Manganese ore was mined on the Watts property in this syncline many years ago. From the west side of Ramsey Mountain a low ridge that extends 1 mile to the west is made up of several narrow north-south hills with shallow saddles between them. Although no outcrops from which the dip of the rocks could be determined were seen on these hills, they are covered __ __ Yz 0 .......,,._..__._...,__ __._ 280 TRACT 3. Tract 3 lies between Grindstone and Piney mountains, two foothills of the Blue Ridge about 5 miles northeast of Elkton. (See fig. 29, p. 284.) It is chiefly in Rockingham County, but partly in Page County. Naked Creek, which· flows near the no~th edge of the tract forms the boundary line between the two counties. So far as know~, no prospecting for manganese has been done within the area, but the Watson mine is about 1 mile to the north-northwest, and a number of manganese prospects are scattered along the west base of Grindstone Mountain, between it and this tract. White quartzite (Erwin) is exposed on the crest and most of the west slope of Grindstone Mountain. In general its strike is parallel wit:h the mountain, which trends N. 10°-20° W., and it dips 40°-5? 0 W., passing beneath the limestone and shales that are exposed m the Shenandoah Valley. A small embayment near the south end of Grindstone Mountain is formed by a steeply plunging" syncline. No limestone is exposed at the surface in this syncline, but residual clay from the limestone was observed at the W at:son mine and in the prospects near by, all of which are in the syncline. This residual clay retains the original bedding of the limestone and incloses decomposed chert that is characteristic of the Shady dolomite. The clay is overlain by and at the top is partly mixed wit:h quartzite boulders, which are especially numerous on the flat wooded spurs that extend southward from the base of the mountain. Grindstone Mountain ends abruptly at Naked Creek, where the mountain front is offset about a mile to the east and thence continues south in Piney Mountain. The crest and most of the west slope of Piney Mountain are formed of the same white quartzite, which strikes S. 25° W." and clips at a high angle toward the Shenandoah Valley. This offset is caused by an anticline and associated syncline, which are similar to but larger than those at the Watson mine, a mile to the north. The folds are so broad and open and plunge so steeply to the southwest that the strike of the Erwin quartzite here makes two nearly right-angle bends. (See fig. 29.) In the syncline a limestone, which is probably the Shady dolomite, is inclosed above the white quartzite. The limestone is not exposed near the mountain, but a sink hole and red clay residual from limestone seen in a stream bank close to the west slope of Piney Mountain are sufficient evidence of its presence under the covering of wash. Dolomite beds are exposed in Naked Creek south of the Watson mine and also farther out in the valley. The axis of the syncline strikes northeast between the two mountains but lies south of Naked Creek. Along the creek the white quartzite beds, which are north of the synclinal axis, strike N. 70° E. and dip 15°-30° SE. To the east, up the creek the older ___.2 MILES FIGURE 31.-Sketch geologic map of region near Waynesboro, Va., showing location of tract 4. with angular quartzite fragments nearly in place, and the hills are believed to be small anticlines which plunge steeply to the north, toward Sawmill Run, and less steeply to the south. Between the south ends o:f these hills are small embayments which are structurally synclinal troughs, and two of them are sufficiently: large to inclose the overlying Shady dolomite or its residual clay. In fact, fragments of chert derived from the Shady dolomite were found in the alluvial fill of the valleys. The quartzite in thelow hills is seemingly that of the upper beds of the Erwin formation. West of Ramsey Mountain, across an alluvium-filled valley threefourths to 1 mile wide, is a group of low hills, including a higher one called Bear Mountain. These are quartzite hills which are covered with angular fragments of quartzite and cemented quartzite 531 530 �290 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1917-PART I. Cambrian sandy shale and slate of the Hampton formation and arkosic sandstone and conglomerate of the Unicoi formation crop out beneath the white Erwin quartzite, with similar low southerly dips :md nearly east strike. At the base of the Cambrian rocks purple ferruginous sandstone rests on. pre-Cambrian greenstone schists. The ore at the Watson mine consists of concretionary psilomelane and pockets of wad in residual clay of the Shady dolomite. It was mined by means of a shaft and two tunnels and was concentrated in a mill at the mine, but no mining has been done here. for several years. Similar ore occurs at the prospect pits along the foot of the mountain for about half a mile southeast of the mine. The mine and prospects are located in a small syncline and are therefore favorably situated for the accumulation 6f manganese ore, but large, rich deposits are probably not to be expected because of the. small size of the syncline. The tract near Naked Creek, however, is larger and more favorably situated for the accumulation of ore, because the syncline from which ore could have been concentrated there is broad and open. Although no ore has been reported from this tract, it is recommended that the tract be thoroughly prospected by drilling or digging pits. It is not advisable to prospect in the stream flats of Naked Creek and its tributary flowing north at the west base of Piney Mountain, for but little, if any, residual clay in which manganese ore would be expected occurs here between the alluvium and the unaltered limestone. Prospecting should be confined to the area between these two creeks. TRACT 4. Tract 4 is an irregular low land area inclosed by low hills, 3 miles northeast of Waynesboro. ( See fig. 31.) This region is . served by the Shenandoah Valley branch of the Norfolk & Western Railway and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which cross at Basic City. The boundary between the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Valley here follows a very irregular but general southwesterly course, which is determined by the irregular structure and distribution of the underlying rocks. Some of the foothills are so low that it is difficult to decide where the boundary between foothills and valley should be drawn. The westernmost foothills of the Blue Ridge are composed of white Cambrian (Erwin) quartzite. Sawmill Ridge and Ramsey Mountain form the main ridge of the white quartzite in this area, and quartzite beds on their west slopes dip 50° W., toward the valley. East of Ramsey Mountain and Sawmill Ridge the white quartzite is underlain by older Cambrian sandy shales and dark arkosic sandstones of the Hampton and Unicoi formations, and east of these are the pre-Cambrian greenstones and schists that compose the larger part of the Blue Ridge. West of the mountain front the 20 2 CON T'RJBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1917-PART I. breccia but no rock ledges from which the structure could be determined ~ere seen. The hills are believed to be anticlinal in structure and to be made up of several low anticlines in which the quartzite is barely exposed at the surface. Between the individual hills are several small valleys or hollows, presumably occupying synclinal troughs, which, if not too shallow, may contain Shady dolomite. Those on the north and east sides merge with the embayments on the south side of the quartzite hills to the north, which are known to contain chert residual from the dolomite. These structural troughs, which are large and deep enough to contain a con·s iderable body of the Shady dolomite, or its resi~ual clay, are favo:able for the accumulation of manganese ore bodies. A prospect pit northeast of Bear Mountain found considerable manganese ore, and two other prospect pits on the west flank of Ramsey Mountain also sho_w ore. In fact, the whole lowland southwest of Ramsey Mo~ntam and southeast of Bear Mountain is believed to be underlam by residual clay from limestone and therefore to have favorable structural conditions for the accumulation of ore. The surface of much of this area especially the portions close to the quartzite hills, is strewn with'small pieces of flinty iron ore, and the soil is markedly red in places. Both of these features indicate the probable presence of the basal beds of the Shady dolomite, in which some ore has been deposited. The limestone lowland and the white quartzite of Ramsey Mountain are abruptly terminated at the south by the older Cambrian shales and arkosic sandstones, which have been thrust westward about 2 miles along an east-west fault, the trace of which lies close to the main road from the gap south of Ramsey Mountain to Basic City. Because of the favorable structure just described it is recommended that the triangular valley of about 1 square mile lying north of the fault and extending from Ramsey Mountain to Bear Mountain with its two northward synclinal prongs, be thoroughly prospect~d by drilling or test ·pits to determine the presence of manganese. The small synclinal valleys wes~ and sou~h~est of Bear Mountain are also recommended as possibly contammg workable deposits and worthy of examination. The small syncline on Sawmill Run is likewise favorable, but large deposits are not to be expected there. TRACT 5. Tract 5 lies 6 miles due south of Luray and just northeast of Marksville. (See fig. 32.) As it is a limestone valley inclosed by quartzite ridges it may prove worthy of careful prospecting. The main quartzite ridge of the mountain front is br?lrnn d~wn east _of the village of Stony Man (Blosserville), as the white Er':m quartzite is here crushed by faulting. South of Stony Man the ndge appears �MANGANESE ORE IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA. MANGANESE ORE IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA. 295 293 ' to be anticlinal, with a fault on its southeast side, and farther south- derived and incloses decomposed chert from the limestone. This clay is residual ·from the Shady dolomite at the base of the Shenandoah group of limestones, for purple shale, :residual banded clay, and thin sandstone of the next overlying formation (Watauga shale) crop out near the wagon road west of the mine. In the mine pits the residual clay merges at the top with mottled clay that has moved somewhat down the slope and has been more or less niixed with the sandstone wash froni the mountain. The overburden is not more than 10 feet thick at the mine. The ore seems to be mostly deposited in the undisturbed residual clay. At the west end of the railway cut there is a small detached mass of brecciated white quartzite, which evidently forms a small anticline on the west flank of the main q u a r t z i t e m a s s , although it is so highly brecciated that · the anticlinal structure can not be determined in the railway cut. The sinall ridge which this quartzite mass makes on the flank of the main quartzite ridge west of the railway is covered with fragments of the quartzite, but there are no bedrock outcrops on it. It declines toward the southwest and merges into the w a sh - c o v e red terraced mountain slope on which the Seibel mine is located. <j.M1LES 1 , ~z , ? In the swale between the FIGURE 33.-Sketch geologic map of area east of main ridge and this small Front Royal, Va., showing location of tract 6. ridge is much iron-ore float and several shallow pits which show considerable manganese oxide. This swale is on the axis of a small syncline that plunges southwestward toward the Seibel mine and incloses the residual clays of the basal limestone beds which rest on the top of the gently dipping white quartzite. Its structure is therefore favorable for the accumulation of manganese ore. The fold, ~owever, is s~ small that the embayment can not be regarded as hkely to furmsh a large quantity of manganese and would not be class~d as favorable for prospecting if it were not for the good s~10wmg .o f ore at the surface and in the surface pits over a considerable area northeast of the Seibel mine. An iron mine was formerly worked by the Seibel Co. 1 mile southwest of the manganese mine, on the flank of the same ridge. In the west, west of Ida, there are two quartzite ridges, the outer one apparently anticlinal, so that the valley between them is a syncline. The £;ult east of the quartzitecutsouttheHamptonshaletothesouthwest, bringing the Unicoi sandstone and Erwin quartzite together. These nre minor structural features, however, and even if the synclines in the white quartzite inclose limestone, as is suggested by exposures of certain residual clays, they are hardly to be regarded as favorable for the accumulation of large manganese deposits. Northeast of Marksville an outlying q u a r t z i t e ridge trends northeast, and although large masses of rock cover its surface no rock was observed in place, and the structure could not be determined. It is believed to be an anticline, however, but may be faulted on the west side. The valley between the outlying ridge and the main ridge of the mountain front is deeply covered with sandstone wash, and the bedrock is concealed, but with the quartzite fragments there is much iron-ore float and some ferruginous chert derived from limestone. This valley is therefore Y• o , MILE believed to be a synclinal FIGURE 32.-Sketch geologic map of area south of limestone valley between Luray, Va., showing location of tract 5. two quartzite ridges and thus to be stq1cturally favorable for the accumulation of manganese ore. Manganese ore has not been mined in this area, but in a small synclinal valley on the mountain side 2 miles southwest of Marksville some old workings show fragments of manganese oxide, and preparations are being made to reopen the workings. The limestone embayment opens into the main valley both at the north and south, but as a fault probably breaks the limestone at these places the bedding is not continuous across these breaks and the syncline is cut off. The synclinal basin therefore forms a wedgeshaped area with the point at the northeast, over 2 miles long and a 533 532 �294 296 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 191'7-PART I. mile in width at its southwest base. At the southwest it is cut off by pre-Cambrian granite, which is faulted across the end of the basin. The granite has been moved westward along the east-west fracture and now abuts against the ends of first the pre-Cambrian greenstone beds southwest of Ida, then successively the basal Cambrian sandstones and shales (Unicoi and Hampton), the upper white quartzite (Erwin), and finally the limestone of the inclosed valley. The fault thus caused a horizontal displacement of the rocks of at least 3 miles at this place. This wedge-shaped embayment is regarded as a d~irable place to prospect for manganese deposits, as its structure is favorable for the eoncentration of any manganese that may have been originally present in the surrounding rocks. The portion of the embayment south .of the stream and road is a lowland with little coarse wash and has apparently been recently scoured by the stream, so that if ore were originally deposited there it has probably been removed by erosion. The higher part of the area, north of the road, is deeply covered with wash and is more favorable for the occurrence of ore, particularly that portion which lies at or near the saddle in the valley between the outer ridge and the main ridge. TRACT 6. Tract 6 is a small area of valley and mountain slope in the vicinity of the Seibel manganese mine, near Happy Creek station on the Southern Railway, 3 miles east of Front Royal. (See fig. 33.) This tract is worthy of careful prospecting for manganese, which can be done most readily with the drill. The rocks of this area are unusually well exposed in the Southern Railway cuts east of the mine. Here the pre-Cambrian greenstone is succeeded on the west by nearly vertical beds of arkosic gray and purple banded sandstone and conglomerate which represent the basal formation (Unicoi sandstone) of the Cambrian. These beds are followed by purple shaly arkosic beds, hacldy sandy shales, and soft buff sandstones with low dips and minor folds, and these in turn by nearly vertical, thicker, harder argillaceous sandstone with some thin dark shale partings which represent the Hampton shale. Then follows the main ridge-making upper white quartzite (Erwin), which is nearly vertical but also somewhat folded and much brecciated, the fragments being cemented in part by limonite. At the foot of the west slope of the mountain is the Seibel manganese mine, described in detail by Hewett. 1 The manganese and manganiferous iron in a new pit at the mine clearly occur in clay that in part retains the original bedding of the limestone from which it was 1 Hewett, D. F., op. cit., pp. 67-69. , CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 191'7-PART I. mine pit the brecciated white quartzite clearly overlies banded yellow clay residual from the Shady dolomite, which dips 40° SE., so that the beds are overturned. The unaltered Shady dolomite was encountered in a tunnel below the pit. These rocks strike southwestward but are cut off in this direction by the pre-Cambrian greenstone which is faulted across the ends of the beds. The greenstone has been moved westward along the fault, .resting against the ends first of the basal Cambrian beds, then in turn the white quartzite, the residual clay of the Shady dolomite, and lastly purple shales and thin sandstone of the Watauga formation. The horizontal movement of the greenstone was at least 2 miles. _T o the west the brecciated quartzite makes another low hill 1 mile from Front Royal, which is believed to be a crushed anticline, although the rock outcrops do not fully indicate the structure. The limestone lowland between this sandstone hill and the Seibel iron mine is therefore synclinal. However, on account of the crushing of the quartzite, the marked overturning of the fold at the iron mine, and the probability of minor faulting, this larger syncline is not regarded as particularly favorable for the occurrence of large deposits of manganese ore, although the residual clay is stained in places by manganese oxide. The most favorable place for prospecting with the drill in this area therefore is along the mountain front in the vicinity of the ' ' mine, particularly northeast of the mine, between it and the Seibel railway, and search there for commercial deposits is recommended. �DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 660 CONTENTS. [The letters in parentheses preceding the titles are those used to ,lesignate the papers for • advance publication.] CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY Page. (A) Notes on the geology and iron ores of the Cuyuna district, Minn., by E. C. Harder and A. W. Johnston (published June 7, 1917)... . ....... . . . .... (B) Notes on the greensand deposits of the eastern United States, by G. H. Ashley (published Aug. 28, 1917).... . ............................... (B) Methods of analysis of greensand, by W. B. Hicks and R. K. Bailey (published Aug. 28, 1917)..................... •• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (C) Manganese deposits of the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Ark., by H. D. Miser (publi~hed Sept. 12, 1917). . ...... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . (D) Tin resources of the Kings Mountain district, N. C. and S. C., by Arthur Keith and D. B. Sterrett (published Dec. 10, 1917). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (E) Louisiana clays, by G. C. Matson (published Nov. 26, 1917).............. (F) Ore deposits of the northwestern part of the Garnet Range, Mont., by J. T. Pardee (published Jan. 10, 1918).... . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (G) The Dunkleberg mining district, Granite County, Mont., by J. T. Pardee (published Dec. 27, 1917) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (H) The antimonial silver-lead veins of the Arabia district, Nev., by Adolph Knopf (published Jan. 7, 1918)........................... ........... (I) Strontiflnite deposits near Barstow, Cal., by Adolph Knopf (published January 18, 1918) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (J) Possibilities for manganese ore on certain undeveloped tracts in Shenandoah Valley, Va., by D. F. Hewett, G. W. Stose, F.J. Katz, and H. D. Miser (published January 21, 1918) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Index.... . ..... . . . ......... . . . . . . .. . . . . .. .. . . . ... ........... . ............ (SIIORT PAPERS AND PRELIMINARY REPORTS) 1 27 1917 51 59 123 147 PART !,-METALS AND NONMETALS EXCEPT FUELS 159 241 249- F. L. RANSOME AND H. S. GALE 257 GEOLOGISTS IN CHARGE 271 297 ILLUSTRATIONS. I. Map of east-central Minnesota showing the location of the Cuyuna district and a part of the Mesabi district .................. . .... . II. Sketch map of New Jersey and parts of Maryland and Virginia, showing general distribution of greensand-bearing formations ..... III. Geologic map of the northern parts of the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Arkansas and Oklahoma ....... . ... .. ............ . . IV. Map showing location of deposits of tin ore in Kings Mountain district, North Carolina and South Carolina....................... .. V. Map showing the distribution of clay-bearing formations in Louisiana and the localities where samples were collected .•• : ........ . VI. Geologic map and section of the northwestern part of Garnet Range, Mont .............. . ............. . .. .. ..... .. ... .. ..... . Page. PLATE 2 36 64 124 WASHINGTON 148 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 172 . 1918 III 5 531.\ �IV ILL USTHATIO NS. Page_ NOTE.-T, ~e Su_rvey's _annual volumes entitled "Contribut ions to economic geology are issued m parts, and the last part will include a volume title p~ge, table of contents, and index for the use of those who may wish t · ~md the separa~e parts. A small edition of the bound volume will also b: but copies can not be supplied to those who have received all the ~:s:i:~· II PLATE VII. Workings in the Nancy Hanks zone, Garner Range, Mont...... .. VIII. Structure in the Shamrock and Dewey mines, Garnet Range, Mont.... ............ ............ ............ ............ ... IX. Workings of the Red Cloud and adjacent mines, Garnet Range, Mont.... ............ ............ ............ ............ .. X. Reconnaissa nce geologic map of the Dunkleberg mining district, Granite County, Mont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XI. Reconnaissa nce map of the Barstow-Kr amer region, San Bernardino County, Cal........ ........... .......... . . ..... . ......... F10URE J. Sketch map of area adjacent to Middletown, Del. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Index map showing location of northern or mountainou s parts of the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Ark....... ......... 3. Section along line C-D on Plate III, through the east ends of Leader, Brier Creek, and Sugartree mountains and the west end of Statehouse Mountain, Ark., showing the. folding of the Arkansas novaculite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Section along line A-B on Plate III, through East Hanna Mountain, Polk County, Ark., showing the folding of the Arkansas novaculite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. Section of east face of Bear Mountain prospect, Pike County, Ark., showing veins of manganese ore along the bedding planes and a network of films of iron and manganese oxides at the crest of an anticline in the novaculi te.......... ............. .......... 6. Plan of Still mine, on IIogpen Mountain, Pike County, Ark........ 7. Sketch map showing the location of most of the James prospects, Montgomery County, Ark...... ............ ............ ........ 8. Sketch geologic map showing workings on south slope of North Mountain, Montgomery County, Ark...... ............ ........ 9. Section along line A-A, figure 8, on south slope of North Mountain, Montgomery County, Ark...... ............ ............ ... 10. Section in a pit on North Mountain, Montgomery County, Ark., showing a manganiferous breccia in the Arkansas novaculite .... 11. Sketch map of workings on land of Dierks Lumber & Coal Co., Montgomery County, Ark ........... ........... ........... ....... , 12. Section on north slope of Tall Peak Mountain, Polk County, Ark., showing the occurrence of manganese ore in the gray novaculite. . 13. Section in a pit on Manganese Mountain, Polk County, Ark., show- , ing the occurrence of manganese ore in the gray novaculite. . . . . . 14. Diagrams of wells showing the general character of clay-bearing formations in Louisian a........... ............. ............. .. 15. Diagram of well at Pineville, Rapides Parish, La......... ......... 16. Index map showing location of northwester n part of Garnet Range and Dunkleberg mining district, Mont.... ............ ......... 17. Vein in 400 level west, Dewey mine, Garnet Range, Mont...... ... 18. Vein in 400 level east, Dewey mine, Garnet Range, Mont...... ... 19. Diagramma tic section of Nancy Hanks vein, Garnet Range, Mont... 20. Cross section of Shamrock mine, Garnet Range, Mont..... ........ 21. Section along First Chance Gulch, Garnet Range, Mont..... ...... 22. Veins at Coloma, Gamet Range, Mont.-~- ............. .......... 23. Vei~s at the head of Elk Creek, Garnet Range, Mont..... ........ . 24. Plan of Dandy vein, Gamet Range, Mont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25. Geologic map and section of the vicinity of Copper Cliff, Garnet Range, Mont.... ............ ............ ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 186 188 242 258 40 59 76 77 89 92 95 99 100 102 105 117 120 157 158 160 179 180 182 186 191 196 200 202 216 �JLLUSTRA'T'lONS, V Page. FIGURE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1917. PART I. METALS AND NONMETALS EXCEPT FUELS. F. L. RANSOME and H. S. GALE, Geologists in charge. INTRODUCTION. The Survey's "Contributions to economic geology" have been published annually since 1902. In 1906 the increase in the number of papers coming under this classification made it necessary. to divide the contributions into two parts, one including papers on metals and nonmetals except fuels and the other including papers on mineral fuels. In 1915 the year included in the title was changed from the year in which the field work reported in these papers was done to the year of publication, and in consequence there was no volume entitled "Contributions to economic geology, 1914." The subjoined table gives a summary of these bulletins. United States Geologicrtl Survey "Contributions to economic geology." Date in title. Dat~ of Pti~~~:- Bulletin No. - -- - - - - - - - -- - - 1902. .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1903...... . ..... . .............. 1904............ . .............. 1905. . ....... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1906, Part I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Part II. . . . .. . .. . . . . .. .. . 1907, Part I. . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. . Part II. . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. 1908, Part I. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part II...... . ...... ... .. 1909, Part I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . Part II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1910, Part I. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . Part II. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1907 1908 1909 1909 1910 1910 1911 1911 1912 213 225 260 285 315 316 340 341 380 381 Date in title. __________ ,____ m 470 471 Date of publication.a 1911, Part I. ................ .. Part II... . .. ....... .. 1912, Part I. ..... . ........... . Part II. ..... . ..... . .... . 1913, Part I. ....... . ... .. .... . Part II ................. . 1915, Part I. ................. . Part II ................. . 1916, Part I. ........... .. .... . Part II .. . .... . . . . . ..... . 1917, ~:~tk::::::::::::::::: Bulletin No. 1913 1913 1914 1914 1915 1915 1916 1916 1917 1917 1918 53 53 54 54 58 580 621 620 640 641 660 661 1918 - a The date given is that of the complete volume; beginning with Bulletin 285, the papers have been issued as advance chapters as soon as they were ready. As the subtitle indicates, the papers included in these volumes are of two classes-(1) short papers giving comparatively detailed descriptions of occnrrences that haYe economic interest but are not of sufficient importance to warrant a more extended description; VII 26. Index map of northern Virginia, showing location of undeveloped tracts recommended as favorable for prospecting for manganese.. 27. Generalized structlli'e section of the west front of the Blue Ridge and the adjacent part of the Shenandoah Valley, showing the normal relations of the rocks and their former extent before removal by erosion.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28. Sketches showing vertical cross sections of four manganese mines in the Shenandoah Valley-Blue Ridge region, representing four types of deposits............................................. 29. Sketch geologic map of region near Elkton, Va., showing location of tracts 1 and 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30. Sketch geologic map of area south of Lyndhurst, Va., showing location of tract 2. . . . . . . . . • . • . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31. Sketch geologic map of region near Waynesboro, Va., showing location of tract 4... •. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32. Sketch geologic map of area south of Luray, Va., showing location of tract 5 ................................................. -.. 33. Sketch geologic map of area east of Front Royal, Va., showing location of tract 6 ...................................... - . . . . . . . . . 272 276 278 284 287 291 293 295 �VIII INTRODUCTION. (2) preliminary reports on economic investigations the results of which are to be published later in more detailed :form. These papers are such only as have a direct ~conomic bearing, all topics of purely scientific interest being excluded. Brief abstracts of the publications of the year are given in the annual report of the Director. The complete list of Survey publications affords, by means of finding lists of subjects and of authors, further aid in ascertaming the extent of the Survey's work in economic geology. The reports on work in Alaska have been printed in a separate series since 1904, the volumes so far issued being Bulletins 259, 284, 314, 345, 379, 442, 480, 520, 542, 592, 622, 642, and 662. / �299 INDEX. Page. Page. Dierks Lu:nber & Coal Co.'s prospect, Ark., description of _____________ 63,104-105 Dufrenite, occurrence oL__________ 75 Dunkleberg mining district, Mont., geologic map oL_____ 242 geology of_________________ 242-243 location of__________________ 241 mining In _____________ 241, 244-247 ore deposits oL ____________ 243-244 topography of _____________ 241-242 E. East Hanna Mountain, Ark., novacullte beds· in________ 77 See also Hanna Range. Electric silver-lead vein, Nev., description oL_________ 254 Elk Creek, Mont., lodes on _______ 200-201 mines near head of _________ 201-205 placers on _________ 231-235,237-238 Elkton, Va., manganese deposit northeast of, probability of__ ______ _____ 289-290 manganese deposit southwest of, probability of_ _____ 283-287 Enarglte, occurrence of, in the Garnet Range, Mont_____ 218, 219-220 England, strontium production oL 267-268 Erwin quartzite, occurrence of, in the manganese area of northwestern Virginia- 274275 Eureka prospect, Ark., description of ________________ 111- 112 F. Fagan mine, Ark., description of_ __ 88-89 Faires tin prospect, N. C., description of______________ 139 Fairview mine, Mont., description of ________________ 194-195 Faus tin prospect, N. C., description of - -- - -- - ----- ---- 138- 130 F'aults in tbe' Garnet district, Mont., features oL ______ _ 170, 174 Fayette sandstone, mechanical analysis of______________ 151 occurrence of, in Louisiana____ 150151,158 Fields prospect, Ark., description oL 88 First Chance Gulch, Mont., course of ________ ___ · ______ 172 First Chance Mining Co., Mont., properties oL _____ _ 190-195 Forest Rose silver-lead mine, Mont., description oL ___ __ __ 247 Fossils, occurrence oL ___________ 70, 258 Fourth of July mine, Mont., description oL__ __ ___ ______ 194 French, C. L., acknowledgment to__ 62 Front Royal, Va., manganese deposit east of, probability oL __ _____ _____ 294-296 G. INDEX. Gaffney, S. C., tin mine near_ ____ 135-1:n Garnet district, Mont., geography and geology oL ____ 172-173 mining in _________________ 171- 172 ore deposits in ____________ _ 173-178 Garnet Hange, Mont., access to---150 geography of _______________ 161-162 geologic map and section of northwestern part of_ 172 gold production of_ _________ 160-161 location of__________________ 150 physiography of____________ 162-165 stratigraphy and lithology oL 165- 169 structure of ___ ____________ 170-171 Germany, strontium production oL 268- 269 Glauconite, analyses oL _______ 31, 32- 33 physical character oL ________ 29- :lO Gold, in the Garnet Range, Mont., occurrence oL_______ 176 in the Garnet Range, Mont., production oL_ 182, 18:l-184 Golcl Leaf gold mine, Mont., description of________ _ 2H Golden Angel gold prospect, Mont., description oL __ ___ 212-213 Gowrie gold prospect, Mont., location oL___________ __ 227 Grant & Hartford mine, Mont., description oL ________ _ 188 Grant & Hartford vein, Mont., discovery of___________ _ 171 Grant prospect, Ark., description oL 116 Grass Widow copper mine, Mont., description of____ ___ _ 229 Greensand, analyses oL __ _____ ___ _ 47- 48 analyses of, methods followed in ___________ ______ _ 51-58 availability of potash in ______ 48-49 composition oL ______________ 29-33 distribution of, in Eastern ancl Southern States ______ 37-47 extent of, in the Eastern States_ 28 formations containing ______ __ 36- 37 grains in, size of_____ ______ __ 30 origin and nature oL ______ ___ 33- 35 sampling of___________ _ 35- 36, 39- 47 water-laid sample of__________ 42 Greenstones, occurrence of, in the Cuyuna district, Minn_ 25 Grindstone Mountain, Va., maganese prospects on_________ 289 Gypsy copper prospect, Mont., location oL_____________ 229 Page. A. Acknowledgments for aid _______ 159-160, 241, 257 Adaline gold prospect, Mont., location of _____________ 227 Aitkin, Minn ., population oL______ 3 Alabama gold mine, Mont., description of _____________ 204 Aladdin gold prospect, Mont., location of _____________ 227 Allen, R. C., and Barrett, L. P., correlation of Huronian rocks by ________ 8-10 Allen tin prospect, N. C., description of ___________ 145-146 Andraclite, occurrence oL_________ 211 Antimony, mining of, in the Arabia district, Nev ______ 249-255 .trabia district, Nev., geology oL 249-251 location of__________________ 249 mining in _________________ 252-255 ore deposits of ________ 251-252, 255 Arizona, strontium from__________ 266 Arkansas, greensand samples from_ 46-47 manganese deposits in, bibliography of___________ 60-61 development of __________ 62-64 Arkansas Development Co.'s mines, Ark., description oL 120-121 Arkansas Geological Survey, cooperation by ________ 61- 62 Arkansaw gold mine, Mont., description of _____________ 204 Ashley, George H., Notes on the greensand deposits of the eastern United States-------------- 27-58 Avant, C. C., claims, Ark., description of ___________ 119-120 Aztec silver-lead prospect, Nev., description of _______ 255 B. Baker & Sullivan lead-silver mine, Mont., description oL 230 Baldwin tin prospect, N. C., description of ___________ 145-146 Barrett, L. P ., Allen, R. C., and, correlation of Huronian rocks bY-------- 8- 10 Barstow-Kramer region, Cal., reconnaissance map of_ 258 Barstow strontiani te area, Cal., geology of____________ 257-261 minerals of _______________ 259-263 origin of strontium deposits in_ 264 Raton Rouge, La., clays in __ ____ 152-154 Beer Creel., Mont., placers on ___ 231-235, 238-239 H. Hammond, George, acknowledgment to __________ _______ _ 62 Hanna, S. A., acknowledgment to __ 62 Hanna, S. A., prospect, Ark., description oL ________ _ 86- 87 Hanna Range, Ark., location of ___ _ 7{l manganese deposits in _______ _ 118 Page. Bear Mountain, Va., manganese deposit near, probability of __________ ______ 290-292 Bear Mountain prospect, Ark., description of_ _________ 63, 89 Bessemer granite, nature and distrlbu tlon of, in the Kings Mountain district, N. C.-S. C. __ 129-130 Bessemer ore, occurrence of, In the Cuyuna district, Minn_ 20 Big l<'ork, Ark., manganese prospects near__________ 116 Bilk Gulch, Mont., gold lodes near______________ 209-210 placers on _____________ 232, 236-237 analys~ of__________________ 251 Bindhelmite, in the Arabia district, Nev., occurrence of______ ______ 249,251-252 Biwabik formation, recent study oL 9 Blackfoot River, Mont., description of _____________ 161 Blue Ridge Tin Corporation, main works of, description of ________________ 141-142 Boston gold prospect, Mont., description of _______ 212-213 Brackett, R. N ., analyses of manganese ores by___ 74,98,108 Brainerd, Minn., population of____ 3 Brier Creek Mountains, Ark., novaculite beds In _____ 75-77 Brunson, Frank, prospect, Ark., description of_______ 87 Brushy Mountains prospects, Ark., description of ____ 63, 89-90 Buckeye gold prospect, Mont., description oL________ 203 Buckeye Mountains, Ark., manganese deposits in ____ 118- 119 Buel Hill prospect, Ark., clescr!ption of____ ______________ 95 C. Caddo Gnp qua o.lrangle, Ark., geography of northern part of __________________ 64-65 geologic map of northern part of_________________ _ 64 manganese ores in ___ __ __ ____ _ 73-85 section of formations in __ __ __ _ 66-68 structure of formations in ____ _ 71-73 Caddo :\fountain prospect, Ark., de- scriptlon of_ ________ _ 97 Cady prospect, Ark., description oL_ 98 Calcite, occurrence of, in the Barstow, Cal., strontianite area ____________ ___ _ 263 297 53"1 53'b �298 300 INDEX Page, 160 Calkins, E'. C., acknowledgment to__ Camas Basin, Mont., physiography of ________________ 162-165 161 Camas Prairie, Mont., geography oL stratigraphy and lithology oL 165-169 structure oL _______________ 170-171 Cape Nome copper mine, Mont., description oL _______ 227-228 Carolina gneiss, nature and distribution of, in the Kings Mountain d is t r i ct, N. C.-S. C _________ 127-128 Cascade mine, Garnet Range, Mont., description of______ 184-185 C assiterite, See Tin. Catahoula sandstone, occurrence of, in Louisiana _______ 151, 158 235 C,,yuse Gulch, Mont., placers near__ C'elestlte, occurrence of, in the Barstow, Cal., strontianite 263 area________________ production of, in England ___ 267-268 268 ln Sicily________________ value of ___________________ 264-265 Charcoal gold prospect, Mont., loca227 tion oL_____________ Chestnut Ridge, N. C., tin prospects on ______________ __ 142-143 Chloride lead-silver mine, Mont., description of_ _______ 229-230 Citronelle formation, occurrence of, in Louisiana _______ 152, 157 Claiborne group, occurrence of, In 150 Louisiana____________ 161 Clark Fork, Mont., description oL__ plac~rs on _________________ 232-233 Clay-bearing formations in Louisi148 ana, map showing__ __ Clays, Louisiana, sections of formations containing____ 156-158 Louisiana, tests of_ _________ 155-156 225 Cli.uton dlstrict, Mont., geography oL geology of_________________ 225-226 mining In __________ 224-225, 227- 231 ore deposits oL ____________ 226-227 Cogburn, R. M., prospect, Ark,, description oL _________ 94-95 Coloma district, Mont., ore deposits and development oL_ 195-199 199 Comet mine, Mont., description oL_ Compton Manganese Co.'s mine, Va., structural f e a t u r e s 279 near---------------Coon Creek, Ark., manganese pros111 __________ ____ pect on Copper in the Garnet Range, Mont., 222 nuggets oL__________ in the Garnet Range, Mont., occurrence of_ _______ 160- 161, 175, 176, 177, 180- 181, 185, 187, 193, 197, 2or., 207, 218- 219, 222, 226 tc·nor oL ___________ __ _ 181, 184 Copper ClltI copper mine, Mont., description oL _______ 220-223 Page, Copper ClitI district, Mont., geog~a213 phy of__________ ____ geology of _________________ 215-217 mining in _____________ 214, 220-224 ore deposits of_ ____________ 218-220 Cossatot Mountain prospects, Ark., description oL _____ 115-116 Crawford, J. H., manganese pros286 pect of______________ Crawford gold prospect, Mont., loca227 tion of______________ 190 Crescent mine, Mont., location oL__ Cretaceous rocks, occurrence of, in the Cuyuna district, 26 Minn________________ Crlmora mine, Va., structural features near _________ 278-279 Crooked Creek, Ark., manganese prospects on ___________ 102-103 Crowders Mountain, N. C., altitude' 124 of__________________ " Cube iron," occurrence of, in the 185 Garnet Range, Mont__ Cuyuna district, Minn., discovery of 3 iron in______________ 1-3 geographic features oL_______ horizon markers in ___________ 13-;l.5 iron ore bodies in ____________ 19--20 lithology oL _________________ 13-26 rocks in, classification oL_____ 6-11 metamorphosed ______ 8-10, 13-25 structure of _____________ 11-13 rocks of areas adjoining, out7 crops oL____________ 1 scope of report on____________ D. Daisy gold prospect, Mont., location 227 of__________________ Dandy gold mine, Mont., description Of----------~----- 201-203 Dargan, Md., structural features 279 near________________ 159 Davey, F. A., acknowledgment to__ Davis, Tellus, prospects Nos. 1 and 63, 2, Ark., description oL 108- 109 Davis, W. A., prospects Nos. 1 and 63, 2, Ark., description of_ 109-111 De Queen quadrangle, Ark.-Okla., geologic map of northern part of__ ____ ___ _ 64 manganese ores in _____ ______ _ 73- 85 _ _ structure of formations in __ 71- 73 Deep Creek, Mont., gold bodies near_ 209210 placers on __________________ _ 236 Delaware, greensand samples from __ 40-43 Delhi, La., clay at_ ______________ _ 154 Dewey mine, Mont., description oL 178182 production of _______________ _ 172 structure In, plate showing___ _ 186 INDEX Page. Ilaparanda gold mine, Mont., des cription of _____ __ 203-204 Happy Creek, Va., manganese deposit near, probability of---------- -- 204-296 Harder, E . C., and Johnston, A. W., Notes on the geology and iron ores of the Cuyuna district,\ Minn_ 1-26Tlartford gold prospect, Mont., description oL __ ____ 212-213 Hastings tin prospect, N. C., de145 scription oL________ Hat ta silver-lead mine, Mont., de247 scription of_________ Hattiesburg clay, occurrence of, In Louisiana_____ 151,157,158 Hatton, Ark., manganese prospects near______________ 121-122 He Mountain, Ark., manganese 111 prospect on_________ Tlellgate Canyon, Mont., geography of __________________ · 161 Hematite, occurrence of, in the Cuyuna district, Minn ___ 15-17, 20-21,23 !Ionderson, L. G., acknowledgment 2 r,7 to _____ __ ______ _____ Howett, D. F., manganese ore in Virginia __________ 271-296 Hidden Treasure gold prospect, 227 Mont., location oL__ Hollander, Albert, acknowledgment 2#1 to__________________ Hollifield, Dallas, acknowledgment 62 to___ ____ _____ ______ Horton tin prospect, N. C., description of _____________ . 143 Hovis tin prospect, N. C., descrip143 tion of_____________ Jiuronian rocks in the Cuyuna district, Minn., correlation oL_____________ 8-10 I. mine, Mont., descrip204 tion of _________ __ __ Igneous rocks, age and occurrence' of, in the Cuyuna district, Minn _________ 10-11, 24-25,26 Inclependence gold prospect, Mont., 204 description of_____ __ In ternational mine, Mont., descrip187 186___ ___ _____ oL tion Intrusive rocks. S ee Igneous rocks. Iron, deposition of, in ferric · or ferrous form _______ _ 16- 17 rllscovery of, In the Cuyuna 3 district, Minn ____ __ _ ores of, in the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, 74 Ark.- Okla_________ __ in the Cuyuna district, Minn ----~- - ------- - 13-23 Idaho gold Page. Iron carbonate, occurrence of, in the Cuyuna district, Minn _______________ 17-18 J. Jack Pot copper mine, Mont., de229 scription of _________ Jackson formation, occurrence of, in Louisiana ______ 150-Hil Jackson silver-lead mine, Mont., de247 scription of_________ G2 Janes, M. A., acknowledgment to__ Janes prospects, Ark., description of__________________ 95-97 Jasplllte, occurrence of, in the Cu19 yuna district, Minn___ Jersey silver-lead vein, Nev., de254 scription of_________ Johnston, A. W., Harder, E. C., and, Notes on the geology and iron ores of the Cuyuna district, Minn_ 1-26 159 Jones, E. L., jr., field work by____ Jones tin mine, N. C., description of ________________ 144-145 Joslin, G. A., acknowledgment to__ 62 K. Katz, F. J., manganese ore in Virginia_____________ 271-296 Keith, Arthur, and Sterrett, Douglas B., Tin resources , of the Kings Mountain district, N. C.-S. c._ 123-146 Kendall & Flick manganese mines, Va., structural featltres near ______ __ 277,285 Kennedy manganese mine, Va., features structural near__________ 279-280, 288 Kings Mountain district, N. C.S. C., geography oL 123-124 12G geologic features oL_________ 124 map showing tin deposits In__ 126 structure of the rocks in____ Kings Mountain mine, N. C., de138 scription of ________ _ Kings Mountain Pinnacle, N. C., 124 altitude oL_________ Kings Mountain quadrangle, N. C.S. C., tin prospects in _______ ____ _____ 137-138 159 Kl enze, H. G., acknowledgment to_ Knopf, Adolph, Strontlanite deposits near Barstow, CaL 257- 270 The antimonial silver-lead veins of the Arabia district, Nev _____ ____ 249- 2l:iti Koch, Julius, method of, for analyzing greensand ____ 52-53 L. Lafayette, La., clay at___________ Lake Charles, La., clay at_ ____ ___ 153 153 �Page. Hamsey Mountain, Va., manganese deposit near, probability of _____________ 290-292 Rattlesnake prospect, Ark., d escription oL _____________ 63, 91 Ha yfield tin prospect, N. C., descrip14G tion oL_____________ Recent clays, occurrence of, in Louisiana ______________ 152, 158 Heel Cloud mine, Mont., description of ________________ 190- 194 workings of, plate showing____ "Red ore," O(·currcnce of, in the Garnet Range, Mont__ 175, 182- 183 Slate, nature and occurrence of, in the Cuyuna district, Minn ___ 14, 15, 17-21, 23-24 Slatington prospects, Mountain Ark., description oL 103- 1 04 Slidell, La., clays in ___________ 152-1G4 Smith, J. Lawrence, method of, for greensand, analyzing results obtained by __ _ 53, 137 Ross tin prospect, N. C., description of__________________ Ruston, La., clay near____________ 142 150 s. formation, occurrence 150 of, In Louisiana_____ ,v. T., acknowledgment to ___ _____________ 159,241 lllaurice Schaller, Sherrod, S. W., acknowledgment to_ Shreveport, La., clay at_ _______ _ _ Sicily, strontium production of_ __ _ Sierra mine, Mont., description oL Silver in the Arabia district, Nev., occurrence of__ 251, 252-253 in the Dunkleberg mining disoccurMont., trict, rence of_ __________ 243;-244 In the Garnet Range, Mont., occurrence of _____ 160-161, 175,176,177,187,193,227 tenor of ___________ 175,181,194 lktl Ro"k gold mine, Mont., description oL ___________ ,213-2H lil·ynold s Mountain prospects, Ark., 88 description oL_______ Risner l\Iountain prospects, Ark., de94 6S, _________ oL scription Roan gneiss, nature and distribution of, in the Kings Mountain district, N. C.S. c ______________ 128-129 Robert Emmet mine, Mont., descrip194 tion oL---------~--Hogcrs, 11. D., method of, for analyzing greensand _____ 51-52 Rosenkranz, 'I.'. H., field work by __ 159,241 lloss tin mine, S. C., description oL 135- St. Page. 62 154 268 187 188 Schist, nature and occurrence of, in the Cuyuna district, Minn ______ ___ 13, 15, 23-24 Seibel iron mine, Va., structure of beds near _____ _____ 29G-296 Senate gold prospect, Mont., loca227 tion of____ ________ _ "Hhadow Rock Mountain,'' Ark., .d~posits manganese in ________ ____ _ 78, 118-119 Shady dolomite, - occun·<>nre of, in the manganese area of northwestern Virginia ______________ 275- 276 description Shamrock mine, Mont., _________ _ of ________ 186 structure in, plate showing __ _ 186 Shamrock vein, discovery oL _____ _ 171 Shenandoah Valley, Va., manganese deposits in ________ 271-296 Shcrando, Va., manganese deposit probsouthwest of, ability of _________ 287-288 267 Sherlock, R. L,, cited--------- -·-- 57-58 C., method of, for analyzing greensancL_ 52--53 Sossamon, W. R. , acknowledgment 62 to__________________ Spokane mine, Mont., description 185 of__________________ Statehouse Mountain, Ark., novaculite beds In __________ 75- 78 Sterrett, Douglas B., Keith, Arthur, and, Tin resources of the Kings Mountain district, N. C.-S. C._ 123-146 Stevens, Chester, acknowledgment 62 to__________________ Still mine, Ark., description oL 63, 92-93 Stone placer mine, Mont., description oL ___________ 235-236 Stose, G. W., 1nanganese ore in Virginia ______________ 271-296 262 Strontlanite, analysis oL__________ discovery of, near Barstow, 257 Cal--------~-------occurrence of, near Barstow, Cat _______ 259-261,269-270 production of, in Germany __ 268-2Ufl 2u:{ 1·esemblance of calcite to_____ val11P of ___ _______________ !l64-2U:i StrontianitP ro!'k, analyses oL __ 2UO, 261 Strontium, sources of __________ 266--260 uses of _______________ 265-266, 270 Strontium hydrate, use of, in relining sugar_ ______ 265-266 Rtroup tin prospect, N. C., descrip14;5 tion oL_____________ Sugartree Mountain, Ark., novacullte beds In __________ 75-78 Sugartree Mountain prospects, Ark., description of _____ 106--107 Summit silver-lead mine, Mont., description of _______ 246--247 Sumpter gold prospect, Mont., loca227 tion of___________ __ Smock, 301 INDEX. 303 INDEX. John Page. Lake Superior region, deformation in __________________ 11-12 Launen placer mine, Mont., .description of ___________ 238-239 T,eaci, occurrence of, in the Dunkleberg mining district, Mont_____________ 243-244 190 Lead King mine, Mont., location oL Lead King vein, Mont., discovery 171 of__________________ Leader Mountain, Ark., novaculite beds in _____________ 75-77 .Leader Mountain prospects, Ark., description of __ 63, 113-115 Ledoux, old, tin prospects, N. C., 140 description of _______ 151 Leesville, La., nature of clay at___ Lehsou placer mine, Mont., descrip236 tion of_____________ Leith, C. K., Van Hise, C. R., and, preof correlation Cambrian rocks by___ 8, 10 L~na, La., nature of clay at_ ___ 151-152 Leonard copper mine, Mont., description of _______ 223-224 222 Lichen, yellow patches of-_________ Llmonite, occurrence of, in the Cuyuna district, Minn_ 15-17 Page. Manganese, area of, in northwestern Virginia, origin of cle281 po~~ in____________ rocks oL ______________ 273-277 structural features oL_ 277-280 surface features of_ ____ 280-281 tracts recommended for exploration in _______ 282-296 occurrence of, in the Cuyuna district, Minn _______ 22-23 ores of, analyses of_ _____ 7 4, 81-84, 20-21 gold mine, Mont., description oL ________ _ 204 Mauney Park tin prospect, N. C., description of_______ 142-143 61 Mesler, R. D., field work by________ Meyer, M. C., cited ____.__________ 265-266 Middletown, Del., map of ·area adjacent to _____________ _ 40 Manganese Mountain, Ark., 121 cave lode on_________ Little Musgrove Mountain, Ark., prospect manganese on ________________ 112-113 Little clay-bearing for·mations 148 in, map showing____ clay-bearing formations in, sections of_ _______ _: __ 156--158 formations that crop out in, 148 table showing_______ 62 Lowery, R., acknowledgment to_~_ Luray, Va., manganese deposit south of, probability oL __ 292-294 Lynx gold mine, Mont., description 205 of__________________ Louisiana, M. Iverson placer mine, 238 Mont., description oL McKinley Mountain prospect, Ark., 108 description of _______ llfrQueston (Otto) silver prospect, 229 Mont., location of____ Magnetite, occurrence of, in the Cayuna district, Minn __ 17-19, McKevltt & 20,21,25 Magone & Anderson mine, Mont., description of _____ 188- 189 Mammoth vein, Mont., development of __________ 195-198 l\fan;.::U1ese, area of, iu northwestPrn Virginia, fipl(l work on __________ 272-273 s~, 98, 108, 118, 119 the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Ark.-Okla ____________ 73-85 Manganese Mountain, Ark., man119 ganese claims on_____ 74 Manganite, description oL________ 85 uses for____________________ 149 Mansfield, La., clays In __________ in Marksville, Va., manganese deposit northeast of, probability oL ____________ 292-294 Marl, use of term _______________ _ 37 Maryland, greensand samples from_ 43-44 map of part of, showing greenformasand-bearing tions _______________ _ 36 Masculine Midvale manganese mine, Va., structural features near__ 279-280 Midway formation, occurrence of, in 148 Louisiana____________ Mills Creek, Va., manganese deposit on, probability oL_ 287-288 2 Minnesota, east-central, map of____ 3-6 general geology of_ _____ _:.____ Minnesota Geological Survey, co1 operation by_________ Miser, Hugh D., · Manganese deposits of the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Ark ________________ 59-122 manganese ore in Virginia ___ 271-296 Mlsslslppl Valley Iron Co.'s prospects Nos. 2 and 3, description of_ __________ 63, 93-94 Missouri Mountain prospect, Ark., 104 description of________ ::\Ilxter, W. G., analysis of blnd251 helmite by___________ Molasses, desugarization of, with strontium hydrate __ 265-266 15cl Monroe, La., clay near_ ____.______ _ l\fontnna Gol<l Mines Co., workings of ________________ 197- 198 5 �302 INDEX Page. silver - lead - antimony mine, Nev., description of ________________ 252-254 149 Mooringsrort, La., clay in_________ Morrell claim, Ark., description oL 105- 106 Morse & Kennedy copper mine, Mont., description of_ _____ 230-231 l\feunt Torry, Va., manganese deposit, structural fea279 tures near___________ 288 Mount Torry mine, Va., operation oL Mountain gold mine, Mont., description oL ___________ 210-211 M:ulky Creek, Mont., silver-lead deposits near_ ________ 229, 230 Mussigb,od, Ludwig, acknowledg159 ment to _____________ Montezuma N. Naked Creek, Va., manganese deposit near, probability oL 289-290 Nanc.v Hanks mine, Mont., description oL ___________ 182-18_4 171 discovery of__________________ Nancy Hanks zone of Vf'ins, Mont., description oL _____ 173-1 H 170 minerals in__________________ 175 tenor of ore in_______________ 182 workings in, plate showing____ 150 Natchitoches, La., clay in_________ 241 N<•al, Walter, acknowledgment to___ Nellie gold prospect, Mont., location 227 of ___________________ Nelson mine, Ar_k., -description of __ 63, 85-86 N<'w .Jersey, greensand in _________ _ 37-40 30 greensand in, map showing ____ _ M., acknowledgment_ Nicholson, D.to __________________ 62 257 Sicklln, T. G., acknowledgment to __ !forth Carolina, greensand samples from _______________ _ 45-46 North Mountain mine, Ark., descrip. tlon of_ ____________ 99~102 Novaculite, nature and occurrence of, in th<' Ca,ldo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Ark ___________ 68-71, 75-79 o. Ohio gold prospect, Mont., descrip203 tion oL_____________ 62 Obnsorg, N. H., acknowledgment to_ Ophir copper prospect, Mont., loca229 tion of______________ Ormond-Carr tin prospect, N. C., de143 scription of__________ Ouachita Mountains, character of, in Caddo Gap quadrangle, Ark_ ____________ 64-65 P. Pardee, J. T., Ore deposits of the northwestern part of Range, Garnet the Mont _____________ 159-239 304 Page, Pardee, J. '£., The Dunkleberg mining district, Granite County, Mont ______ 241, 2-17 Pascagoula c1ay, occurrence of, in Louisiana _________ 151, 107 P,•arl gold mine, Mont., description of ________________ 211-212 Peurl lead mine, Mont., description 24f. of__________________ Pegmatlte, nature and distribution of, in the Kings Mountain district, N. C.S. c __________ 130,133-135 13-! origin of____________________ Penrose, R. A. F., jr., acknowleg. 61 ment to_____________ cited _________________ 62-63, 78, 84, 97-98, 101, 102-103, 106, 108,lll,112-113,115-12 1 Piedmont Plateau, geologic features of ________________ 124-125 Placer deposits in the Garnet Range, Mont., distribution and character of_ ______ 232-234 231 history of mining on__________ ,nines on ____ ~------------- 235-239 origin of_ _________________ 234-235 production from ____________ 231-232 Pleistocene clays, occurrence of, in Louisiana _________ 152, 157 Plonk tin prospect, N. C., descrip139 tion of______________ Pointed Rock Tunnel, Ark., description of_ ___________ 116-117 Porter, Robert, acknowledgment to_ prospect, Ark., clescriptiou of__ Porter, W. ·R., acknowledgment to__ prospect, Ark., description oL_ Potash, minerals containing _______ See also Greensancl. Potassium cbloroplatlnate, solubility of, in alcohol acidified with hydrochloric aclcl_ I'otomac River, section on, cutting greensancl ___________ Powers placer mine, Mont., description oL_____________ Psilomelane, description oL _______ uses for ____________________ _ Purdue, A. H., fielcl work by ______ _ Pyrolusite, description oL _______ _ uses for ____________________ _ 62 97-98 62 98-99 27-28 5G-57 · 45 238 73, 74 85 61 73-74 85 Q. Quartzite, occurrence of, in the Cuyuna district·, Minn___ 24 R. Rainwater, W. E., acknowledgment 02 to__________________ Rainwnter prospects, Ark., d<'scription of ____________ 107-108 Ramseur Mill tin prospect, N. C., description oL _____ 143-144 INDEX Page. Pago. Sunset sliver-lead minr, Mont., description of ________ _ w. 24() T. Mountain, Ark., manganese ore in ______ 117-118 'l'ellurides, occurrence of, in the 176 Garnet district, MonL 'l'empleman, J. L., acknowledgment 159 to__________________ T,•nmile Creek, Mont., placer de239 posits on____________ 46 Tennessee, greensancl reported in___ 187 Tiger mini•. Mont., description of___ 'l.'in, cleposi ts of, in the Kings Mountain district, N. C.-S. C., 135 age of__________ _____ occurrence of, In th,, Kings Mountain district, N. C.-S. c ____ 132-133, 134-135 Top o'-Deep district, Mont., geography and geology oL_ 205-20G mines and prospects in __ 205, 210-214 ore deposits oL ____________ 206-210 Triangle copper mine, Mont., de228 scription oL_________ 257 'l'urner, A. A., acknowledgment to__ •.rail l'eak u. States Geological Survey, method of, for analyzing greensand _______ 53-56 United States Manganese Co., mine 285 operated by__________ United v. R., and Leith, c. K., correlation of pre-Cambrian rocks by___ ____ 8, 10 Veins in the Garnet district, Mont., features oL_______ 173-174 179 movements in________________ 177 persistence of, downward ______ Vesuvius manganese mine. Va., struc277 tural features near___ Vicksburg limestone, occurrence of, 151 in Louisiana _________ Virginia, greensancl samples from __ 44- 45 map of part of, showing greensand - bearing forma36 tions________________ Virginia Geological Survey, cooperation by _____________ _ 271 Virginia slate, use of term _______ _ 8,10 Volcanic rocks. See Igneous rocks. van Hise, c. 74 Wad, description oL______________ s;; use for______ ___ __ ___________ 259 Walcott, Charles D., citecl_________ Warner placer mine, Mont., description oL ___________ 237-238 244 Wasa Ioele, Mont., description oL___ Wasa mine, Mont., description oL_ 244-246 " Wash ore," occurrence of, in the 21 Cuyuna district, Minn_ 266 Washington, strontium from____ ___ Watauga shale, occurrence of, In the of area manganese 27G northwestern Virginia_ 62 Watkins, II. L., acknowledgment to _ Watkins-White prospects, Ark., description oL _________ 87-88 Watson manganese mine, Va., loca289 tion of______________ 290 operation of__________________ Watts mauganese mine, Va., locatio'n 291 of__________________ "'aynesboro, Va., managanese deof, northeast posit probability of_ _____ 290-292 232 Weasel Guieb, Mont., placers on____ Wells, R. C., analyses by ____ 260, 261, 202 "West Hannah Mountain," Ark., 118 manganese claim on__ Westphalia, strontium production in________________ 268-269 Whisenhunt, Wlll, acknowledgment 62 to -----------------White, N. F., prospect, Ark., de91. scription oL_________ White, W. T., prospect, Ark., descrip91 tion oL_____________ Whiteside granite, nature and distribution of, in the Kings Mountain d 1st r i ct, N. C.-S. c _________ l30-lS2 Wilcox formation, occurrence of, in Louisiana __________ 148-149 • Williams placer mine, Mont., de238 scription of__________ 195 Willie lode, Mont., description oL__ l50 Winnfielu, La., clay near__________ Wolff', J. E., study of the Biwabik formation by_________ 9-10 0 Y. manganese prospects near______________ 286-287 Yegua formation, occurrence of, in 150 Louisiana___________ Yancy, Va., �4)41 2,00; 8-1 7 I , 0--~~~~~\'"J From Rec'd - \ _ \'.)~ \ ').. \ \ \ 1 SAMPLE REPRESENtS Car No. Shipper Date Shipped Destination Date rec'd ) Date Samplfll 1 Place Marki Lettet ANALYSIS !!:ASTERN LABORATORY, CHESTER, PA. ,~ =Y·~~ [ ~~:: \. \ 5" ; <~..:.li°'I i = i D·~ ~ ~~~::fdS ~,.. 6 ~ = l · IS ltl\~b ~) . . ~ ~ 'l- io.~b = O~=&~.lf ~~_q 7.S-0 Analyst\~' Report to Copy lo Director. �\ PATRONS ARE REQUESTED TO FAV( (' ~ Cl.ASS OF ~ERVICE " This is a full-rate Telegram or Cablegram unless its deferred character is in• dicated by a suitable sign above or preced• ing the address. " ..E COYPANY BY CRITICISM AND SUGGESTION CONCERNING ITS SERVICE W~ ST ER l\ UN IO N NEWCOMB CARLTON. P11•s1D•NT SIGNS NL LCO = = Night Letter = Deferred Cable NLT "'CableNightLetter WLT .J. c. WILLEVl:R. P1R9T v1ca-P11t•••D•NT 'vJAC1~76 .J, ' DL "' Dav Letter NM Night Message " = Weck-End Letter The filing time as shown in the date line on full-rate telegrams and day letters, and the time of receipt at destination as shown on all meesages, is STAND Received at 1201S ., ARD TIME. I 4 5 NL=GA I i~ ESVI LL E FLO 12 F W YANCEY= ~CGAHEYSVILLE VIR = LETTERS JUST RCD WAS OFFERED EIGHT THOUSAND BY PITTSBURGH CO ORE ANALYZED 40 PERCENT PURE BY DUPONT CO A VERY HIGH GRADE NO OTHER MANGANESE EAST OF MISSl~SI PPI RIVER EXCEPT SPENT IN PAGE WARREN & AUGUSTA COUNTIES LETT~R FOLLOWS TWO THOUSAND DEVELOPING IT= SM YANCEY . THE QUICKEST, SUREST AND SAFEST WAY TO SEND MONEY IS BY TELEGRAPH OR CABLE. �STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF ALACHUA Personally appeared before me, Fred D. Bryant, a Notary Public of the State of Florida, s. M. Yancey, who by me first being duly sworn, deposes and says: That for a number of years affiant has known and been familiar with thew. B. Yancey Woodland tract of land in Rockingham County, Virginia; that several years ago he prospected thereon for mineral deposits and that the ore from which the formula hereto attached, was obtained from said w. B. Yancey, Woodland tract of land, East of Yancey Station, Rockingham County, ~irginia; that he knows same to be true and genuine and the orgiginal formula was made and obtained through his agency from the Dupont Company. Dated at Gainesville, Florida, this 17th day of August, A.D. 1931. Notary Public large. at (/ ~ / t,, �VIRGINIA, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVi:LOPMEtlI' OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA Filed in the Clerk's Office Rockingham County, Va. v. CASSANDRA LAWSON ATKINS and others, and 53,561 acres, more or less, of land in Rocki11gham County, Virginia. NO\' '/ 183L Jd4d4c~lerk Statement .made this 8th day of November, 1932, by Emma. V. Gibbons, Hunter M. Gibbons and Mrs. Mary Gibbons Snapp , in response to an order entered in the above antitledcausa on October 25, 1932. Your respondents say that they are the owners of 124-1/2 acres of land situated about one and a half miles east of Yancey, in Rockingham County, adjoi ning tha lands of Catlett, Trustee, Crawford and others, and the lands now owned by A. L. Moubr-a.y a1~d J. F. Moubray, as shown on the plat on file in the Clerk's Office of Rockingham County. That the said plat as returned by the Board of Appraisers for Park Purposes lists said land as No. / '.J , and as con- t~ining llO acres, whereas , as a matter of fact, it contains 124-l/2 acres. Your raspondents refer specifically to the exceptions filed herein and ask that they be read in connection herewith. And respondents further state they are the owners of a one-eighth interest in and to the mineral rights in the lands known as the W. B. Yancey land, which are not mentioned at all in the said report as far 1:1.s mineral rights are concerned, ,1hich miner,,t.l rights respondent3 and their associates allege a r e worth at the lowest, $l'Y,OOO . OO . And having fully answered, respondents pray that their exceptions to tho report of the said commission be sustained,and they will ever pray, etc. - ~~v~ H ,, ,..tcn+,J Jc, AA M "' w r:Lar.t .. ~-- ~~ ~ By Counsel Couneel SI �:a: n '- l> :;' • STATEMENT 2 X, i=O IA n ZI 0 :z OF Chas . A. Hammer , p . q . 0 C mD ffl m :!. A1 NETTIE I . MAUZY, JULIA. ESTES , A. S .. YANCEY , FRA:IB: W. YANCEY Heirs- at- law of late Win . B. Yancey STATEMENT OF COS TS , POSTAGE , ETC . : C z, C O -4 :z ZI ; II\ :i .. OR~ < ~'°' . ;- -4 THOMA.S L . YANCEY , EMMA V . GIBBONS, S . M . YANCEY , II -I < N :::r X, Ill "' - 3 • ZI n n Oo- ::, C ., II\ :z ii~ II ti JI> '( Ill -4 0 ��CHAS. A. HAMMER ATTORNEY AT LAW HARRISONBURG, VA. To The Hon . Phillip dilliama , chai.r,nan of the L d Tract rbitration Boa.rd : :ve , Thomas L. Yancey , ..... n.ra v . Gibbo ..1s. , t> . 1.I. Yancey , r;ettie I. S.UZJ' Julia s tes , • .:) • Yancey and Fr 1k ,{. Y cey , have e ployed Messrs. Harn.ne r & Harn. er of Harrisonburg , to represent us in all conde nation proceedings in connection with our land tract ,rl63 in the het1andoah National P rk • re , as it appears upon the u ps filed in the Clerk's Office of Rockingh,Ln county. Given under our hands this 22nd day of ~ ugust , 1933 . �Ill' Tfra CIRCUIT COURT OF ROOKINGH.M1 COUNTY, VIRGINIA. THE STATE C01MISION ON 60NSERVATION .AND DEV.EIDBvmNT OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, Vs o CASANDRA LA.WSON ATKINS , et ala., and 52 , 561 Acres f Land in Rockingham Countyo filed in the Clerkts Office Rockingham County, Va. AUG.Jfl933 TO TEE I HON. H. W. BER'IRAM, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT: (1) ~lerk The motion of Thomas L. Yancey, 1ilmna Vao Gibbons , SoMoYanoey, Nettie I.Mauzy, JUlia Estes , A. S. Yancey, and Frank TToYancey, all. ot the heirs at law of the late William B. Yancey, except the children of William Lo Yancey , dec ' d o, praying the said Court to disapprove and decline to accept the findings on Tract #163 of the Board of Appraisal Conmissioners heretofore appointed by the said . Court in the above matter as filed in the Clerk ' s Office of the said Court, wherein the said Board reported certain inadeQuate values for the land and mineral rights of the William B. Yancey estate , and which now belongs to moveants , along with the children of the late William L. Yancey. The grounds of said motion are that the said Board of Appraisal utterly ignored all mineral rights in and to the tract of 124- 1/2 acres of land in whioh moveants own the mine . land being owned by Emma. v . Gibbons , Hunter M. Gibbons, and Mary rights , the bons Snapp. This tract of land is owned in fee simple by »mna V. Gibbons , Hunter M. Gibbons , and Mary Gibbons Snapp, the mineral rights therein belonging to moveants . The mineral rights in these lands are valuable and have been opened and explored , and moveante ancestors spent considerable money in developing them. Moveant s ressrved in the sale of these lands the mineral rights because of th~ir value. The tract of land lies in the manganese ore belt in the spurs at the foothills of the Blue Ridge , on the west side thereof , as shown by the Virginia /bl �-2- Geological Reports, which lands were recommended for p•ospecting and development by the State for the development of manganese for war purposes. Special reference is made to Bulletin 66O- J of the United States Geological Survey, at pages 282-3-4-5- 6, which contains a full statement as to the prospective value of these lands for mineral development . l.Toveants at one time were offered and refused to accept the sUl;ll of XIcmT THOUS.AND ($8,OOOoOO) DOLLARS for the mineral rights upon this tract of lando nothing. For this mineral right the appraisers allowed The lands lie within easy reach of the railroad, and the means of transportat ion of the ores woul.d be readily available . Moveants claim that the mineral rights upon this land are easily worth the sum of TEN THOUS.AND {$iO,OOOoOO) DOLLARS , and they therefore ask that the Board of Arbitration disapprove and decline to accept the said findings of the Appraisal Board , and that a reasonable and fair appraisemen t of the mineral rights be made. Given under our hands this 22nd day of August , 1933 • . &.++ +U<• vL-,. VIRGINIA, CITY OF HARRISONBURG; TO-WIT: This day personally appeared hna V.Gibbons, one of the moveants in the above-named case, who is acting for them all , and whose name is signed on the margin hereof for purposes of identificat ion , personally appeared before me and made oath that the fac~s stated above of her own knowledge are time , and those made upon information derived fran othe:rs, she believes to be true. Given under my hand and seal this 22nd day of August , 1933 . £ .f~ No taryr=>ubl1oo lb1. �C\ r\<.'~ offic f\\ed in the e \Ja. i, · g"'arn CouC1ty, Roc"m 11 SEP f \9'3'3 GIBBONS , E iMA V. , ET U.S 163 R CKILGHAI i COUNTY Il~ R..c:, . ..ffiBI :R.ATIOl\J _ G ~E :i:.t.:.ll./l.'S submit ted to the Govern or rising in or out of conder mation Proceed in,.:,s pendin g in the Circui t court of Virgini r: under uthoTi ty of the shen:::.n douh :e..ti o11c 1 p~r}~ .. ct . \ .,;;xcEP1 _..i.:Ts : 1 G-ib' ons , :.! ma V., et ORIGIN L CL_ L · : VaLUE PL.ACED ls .._crecge 125 : V~lue p31 , 000 . 00 r _.CT BY PET::;: I Ci."E ' S ...PPR-IT SERS : V_LUE 163 .,p416 . 00 Il"!CID.u:l'r \.L DA:.TAGES None / CO ~-:ISSI ,i.,.wRS FI.c.:JL.G S : VALUE 1R...,CT 163 F TRLCT : 1 O. rnc .nam g_es , r:one V_\LUE ~560 . oo None �The basic differences between Petitioner and these exceptants are as to the classification and value of the land, timber values, and mineral rights . Although we believe the values reported by the Petitioner ' s appraisers were very liberal and ~hat the findings of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners as to values are substantially too high, we have accepted and will not seek a lower valuation than their findings as shown on the above tables in this case; As to the classification of the land and the other elements of value we submit that these matters are correctly set forth in t~e Work Sheet of the Board with reference to this case, and not as set forth in exceptants 1 statements . This Work Sheet is filed with the record and a copy of this Work Sheet is submitted with copy of the record tendered herewith, and additional copies of the Work Sheet in this case will be furnished if desired; I orney Subscribed to and verified before me this ~he 5'' day of September, 1933 . ,~ �Q1nmmnuweult11 nf ]lirgiutu TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. JOHN M. PURCELL December 29 , 1933 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA This is to certify that I, J.M. Purcell, Treasurer o f Virgi nia have this 29 day of December with an order of the circuit court of dated 12/27/33 in accordan c e Rockingham Crnmty in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virg in ia vs. Ca ssandra Lawson At k i n s =---=-=-==="'----------- paid to Emma V. Gibbons , Elkton , Virg inia $_ 1~,_3_5_4_._7_0_ __ being in full settlement of tract #--2:MJ i n the above mentioned cause. //n7 �Q!nmmnuwtnltlJ nf lfirgiutn TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND , VA. December 29, 1933 JOHN M . PURCELL TREASURER OF VIRGINIA En:nna v. Gibbons Received of J.M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 1 1 354 . 70 , in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county 0 Rock ingham -f - - --------C'--- entered on the 27th day of December 193~ , in the matter of the State Commission on Conservation and Development v _ __ - - ~C~a--.. u.s~s=a~u~d~r~a.._____I~,a~w.ll...Us~a~uL-...<A~t~k~1~n.u.ws~ -- and others, being full and complete settlement for the tract of land known in said proceeding as # ~2- 3- 0~- - Sign original and duplicate and return to the Treasurer of Virginia. �Q!ommnuwraltq nf llltrgiuia TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. De cember 29 , 1933 JOHN M. PURCELL TREASURER OF VIRGINIA This is to certify that I, J. M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virgi nia have this 29 day of Deceniber in accordan ce with an order of the circuit court of Rockingham County dated 12/27/33 in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia vs. Cassandra Lawson Atkins _c__cc.=----=--=--'--=-'~---------- paid to __Farmers .Agri cultu re Credit Cor oration and the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Baltimore co Ward Swank, Atty. $1,130 . 30 being in full settlement of tract ~ HarrisoR bur g , Va in the above mentioned cause. / 100 �Q!nmmnuwtalt11 nf ]lirgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE J RICHMOND, VA. JOHN M. PURCELL December 29 , 1933 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA Farmers Agriculture Credit Corporation and the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Baltimore Received of J.M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 1 ,13 o. 3 o , in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county 0 f - -Rockingham - -- - - - - -- entered on the 27th day of December.193-3.. , in the matter of the State Commission on Conservation and Development v _ _ _ ---=C~a=s=s~a=n=d=r~a-'----"L=a=w'-'--=-s~o=n~A~t=k=i=n=s____ and others, being full and complete settlement for the tract of land known in said proceeding as #_2_3-0~- - - Sign · ori g ina l and duplicate and r e t u rn to the Treasurer of Virg inia. '2 ol �<ttnmwnumtalt}1 nf ]Itrgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. December 29, 1933 JOHN M. PURCELL TREASURER OF VIRGINIA This is to certify that I, J.M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virg inia have this 29 day of __ne cember in accordance with an order of the circuit court of dated 12/27/33 Rockingham County in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virgi n ia vs. Cassandra Lawson Atkins -~~==-=---------- paid to Louise M. Thompson , c/o w. A. Gibbons , Roanoke , Va . $_1~,_2_0_0_._0_0_ _ _ being in full settlement of tract #-2.MJ in the above mentioned cause. 1'18 �Qtnmmnuwtaltq nf ]firgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. 1JeC8lllt.H:~l· JOHN M. PURCELL TREASURER OF VIRGINIA 29 1 1933 Lou1 se M. Thompso Received of J.M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 1 , 200 . 00 , in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county of Rockingham County entered on the 27th day of December 193L , in the matter of the State Commission on Conservation and Development v _ __ _C_a_s_s_a_n_d~r_a~L~a~w~s~o=n=-=A~t=k=i=n=s~____ and others, being full and complete settlement for the tract of land known in said proceeding as # -=2=3~0_ _ _ Sign original and duplicate and return to the Treasurer of Virginia. I"\ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context gibbons-emma-v.pdf Title A name given to the resource Gibbons, Emma V. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Park Area Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 163 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Gibbons https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/20d7bd95932f11a91a77b481d06c4b7a.pdf a3b6c283f72293e4d5bce8638264fc66 PDF Text Text Claim of_ _____ Mrs ._ Chas • _L~_ Ga._xnor ___ (Lillie _G~nor ) _____________________ _ In the Circuit Court of__!.1.Q.QlcJ.I J.~____________ county, Virginia, No. __ ~!3-~~-, At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. __Cassandr.a_ w.snn_ t.kins_,__ ~_t__al..s._.__arut _~~!.~~-1-:-~~~~~~--------more or less, of land in __!'.t.9_~}._I:!Bh_~ _____________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ __ R_Q.Qk:!:~£.~--- - ----- County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is ____ J4;r_s_.__..Gha.a._L.~_Gayno..r_-(..Lilli.e...-Geyn0-J;!}---------------My post office address is ___ __Elkt.o.n.~_J...a. _____ _________ ____ _______ ____________ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ __~QA ___________ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: ____ : __-: __-:_ _:-__: __:-____________________ _____________________ _ . Ian d 1s . I Ioca t ed a b ou t ____________ three rton m1·1 es f rom______ __________________ Th1s ·· m · _____ v·1rg1ma, the_ .3.t- ll.J all ___ Magistetial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above. ) __ one- thi rd_int ere s t. _____ _---------- --------------------------------------------The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follows: North _____ dom He nsl.ez ___________________________________ ____ __________________ _ South ____ :I . _H. __ ""'rshall _estate ----------- -------- -- ------------ -- -- - --- - ---East _____ A.dam He nsle..:L estate ____________________ ______ ________ __ ____________ _ West_ _____ • _H. ;.;:arshall _estate _and Cook _esta to ____ ____________________ _ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year __ _l_~{).9___ in the following manner: by .tou.r_se arate _doeds _as _:follows : __ deed _from J . _A._ Bear _and ___ife ; . f . Palmer , ----------------&c ., and J . ----------------------S. Harnoberger, &o . --------------------------~--------------------I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $__i .._QQ9_<@..Q9____ . I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $_J._,_q_g.9_._Q9___ ~. I am the owner of__ l_~_.9R_.?_Q ___ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be da(~g by: ~he froposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of ~OV (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds ). Remarks·------ - ----------------------------------- - --------- - ------------ __ ___ ___ H. A. Bear and wife · Jno $---~3.;.oa8:...S.o__ --------------------------- ---- ------------- ( Continue remarks if necessary on the back). Witness my signature (or my name and mo/2,,~ attache hereto) thi~ ____!§j:;]:! ____ day Fb QM · ' L(7a OF _____ To-« ~--The undersigned hereby certifies thaL ____I,j._l_l,j._~ __G_~ m_Q:r_______________ ...: _________ _ the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters and things appearing in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, ~~~;~-~:-~~:~~~~~' l~~~~TY ~IB-;;;~_ if RQokin~ -------------~- -~--~--day oL ____ F.11brJ1g~: : rk / -' 3:· Notary ~ urt,~ t;g;.~ ublic, or Justice of the Peace. l'& l � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context gaynor-lillie.pdf Title A name given to the resource Gaynor, Lillie Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Not Specified Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): Not Specified Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Gaynor https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/a3551e041a9edbcc092010424653923b.pdf 9c153e5449fdaba467a1b3ba110759e6 PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAH COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #226 - Funkhouser, J . , • • & Effie Number of Acres: 132 Location: Main Ridge near Roach Gap . Roads: Three miles of fair dirt road to Spotswood Trail near Swift Run; thence four miles to Elkton. Soil: The first class grazing land is of good depth and fertility; very The second clas c is rocky little rock with moderate slopes . .vi th thin soil and steep slopes; washed quite badly. 1 he third class is very poor and practically all rock . 1 History of Tract and condition of timber: Post of the tract wqs cleared many years The wooded area has been cut over repeatedago, grazed since. ly in the past . The present stand consists of mixed oaks , etc . Log 18x24' , 4 rooms,kitche n 10xl5x8', etal Improvements : Dwelling: roof, stone flues, 1~ story, log finish , occupied by tenant. Log 12xl6xl0', shingle roof, poor condition . Jmi!m mnlt= Barn: Log 8xl0x6 ', shingle roof , poor condition. Hen house: Acreage and value of types: Types Total Value Value per acre Acreage Ridge: Slope: 2? ~5.00 $135.00 38. 00 3914. 00 25 . 00 50 . 00 ;4099 . oo Cove: Grazing Land: 103 @ Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: 2 132 Orchard: Minerals : V~ueofLand: $ 4099 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 310 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ 310.00 Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit: $ 60 . 00 Value of Timber: $ 4459 . 00 Value of Wood: $ 50 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 33 . ?? Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . �Claim of________ ~1 ohn _.'. _ Funthou _er _ar, d _'!.' ff i e _ 1 • _ '!:\. n .hoL _ er______________ _ . . N o. ________ , At L aw. ar•_!. ___________ Count y, v·1rgmia, "k ; r, or·-=.:......, c ~-!.=~. ·t Court of ----I n th e C1rcm The State Commission on Conserva tion and Developm ent of the State of Virginia, Peti· tioner, vs. __________________________________ . -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --more or less, of land in _______ .I_ ..c..h. · r_,.,.b..a.rr:. _______ County, Virginia, Defendan ts. The undersig ned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conserva tion and Developme nt of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemn ation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordan ce with the order of the Circuit Court of_ ____<::9!-_!!.13-12~- -------- - County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My post office address is __________,.c_Cp.h.~::--.::.Jri.1...1..e..,_3i....c.3ir -i ________________ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containin g about ____ ;]._E__________ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvem ents =-------- -~--r .01- _J:1_".l.U~ - ~riJ_____t h l~------ -------- ----- -- - - ----- - - 11_ inclo _ "'1 by_ r3.i 1 _3-ri. d_wi r• _f enc". -------- ---- --- ----- -------- --This land is located about_ ___l'.)______ miles from __ F--1.ki'~-,-------- -------- --Virgin ia, in . t of sai'd Coun t y. · 1 D'1st ric · t eria ,,~1_..i-.1 _ ___ Mag1s Qtnn• th e ___ L~--- ~_,_.,_ I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) _____ J__Q:y_n____ _,,_j__?,,_JJ:!."'_~i.Y.i.~_-:Li2"..t.~.J:.'! ..t. _r.;: _p.u..rch..':?. ~,-- :.>:!lQ,_~.-'f--'Li.f~-------- --_..,r_::c t,_--1-t _ F ----~...!'_?..f_.[i_e__ _-_.___ ::.:i...,12::l1n.u __~r.., __ · :iJ'_e.rite _ i..2_lJ.L.d:L\1:L__~-t-..i. r -i An·· eni;r!bvt . f ~11• r ·Tne larld owners aaJacent --io tfle above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North ___ ~._ ,J ._ ren _..i."!y _________________________________________________________ _ South_ -----_ 0 rawfor d -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- East ____ • •__1 ._ <'"'r.iff) l'"tt -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------West ____ _.... . __ . _?urke _" c -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year____ lfD..S -in the following manner: "IIl c r::y -vi fe i nh~ri t e i h~ r i 11 t iare t 1923 ."for---1 • . ".\1.r-:;..hou er b,r nurcha e -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------~ -------- -------- -------- -------- _,__' ---------- ~ ~"':\1111 J:-,-,u_ l'"r_ ir-rer;i ten _ ·r __ h.e. __ ·~.t ______ Fffie _H . -e r~~ I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvem ents thereon is· $--~~-~Q ~_QQ _____ , I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, is $__eB!.t.Q..!.C''....Q _____ , in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvem ents thereon . 1n t'!.n. r, iliaa of I am the owner oL_4..:5.e __________ acres of lancL~lf ll-ll'g. tlie above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemn ation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $__ _4. O.C.:..LOJ..l _____ _, as to (In the space below should be set out any additiona l statemen ts or informat ion a here insert also should he le practicab if and make; to this claim which claimant desires bounds). and metes by land of parcel or tract the descripti on of Remarks · ___ "'h" _rrofi teble_ oner-=t: i _n of_ trie _horr~ _ f<i.rr. _wilL' e_ 'It : __ y~_IY_.!1.:.9-.t ~ri_~:U._y _tn..i\Lt.~.d.J~r i_ _yJ>:... .r__ __)le..a..r:+ _..:,ihich _.I._c - X- - 8 ------ to t al_ d:1r age _to__th~ _45. _a.ere _f,,.,rm_ +o_ t)lia_ i-xRn.:t _ f __ 4.QQO~.Df'____ __ ___ _ __rach _vear _the _cattle ____ .ilraze __ n _ ;dri A '"'J.J......,t.e.i. _.f..a.rn_~_.del _ ..e_ ______ _ back). arou.c11d.. __'25..0. ... _.:r-~r__y~..a.r. ____________________ (Continu e remarks if necessar y on the cur of_ :'.~~~~~:-~:tu~ :;: ~;~ ~,f fe~ }-~ ~ STATE OF VIRGIN IA, COUNTY OF___p__Q~J.J1gb_E!.1''"'-------- ---, To-wit11 n~houa e r - f! ~ • ~ ________ __ _ ~ _11_~..r..l. :. 1 .1)_ ~..r._ ___ T h._"Q ______ __..~_ 'uvl 1 es th a t ____,__ d h ere by cert"fi . The un d ers1gne the above named claimant personall y appeared before him and made oath that the matters belief, filed in the Cle i~d things appearin g in his above answer are true to the best of his kno ~ -,---........._, Rockingham rt'hts_o_~~ !__ l..E.th.. _____ day oL __ __ .::.e..b.ru. :x...y. __, 1930:· 1sa1 , counry, va, FEB 18 10~i~ ~/p;f/~ ~ er~ . -- _.,.,-,..--- • 17~ �- vount y: Rocki n~ham Distr ict; Stone wall ~226 - Funkh ouser , J.M. Acrea ge Claim ed: 216 Value Claim ed: Looa. t1on: & ~rr1e Asses sed 219 ., 8640 . oo " 1540. 00 'ain Ridge near Roach Gap. Deed 250 A. accor ding to 1897 - ~2~66 . 00; 216¼ • accor ding to later conve yance s . Incum brano es 1 coun ter oluim s or laps: ~one kno~n . Soil: The :first olas ... g razin g l nu is of good depth •md ferti very littl e rock with mode rate slope s~ The secon d olns ~lity; r ~Y .·1th tin soil and steep slo"e s; wa hw • ite badly is . The third class is very poor · nc~ ;,ract ic'1ll y all rock . .. oads: 1i'n'ree miles of fair dirt road to Spots wood Trail near uiift Run; thenc e four miles to Jlkto n . Usto r and cond ition of timbe r: Most of the tract wa~ clear ed ye rs ago, graze since . T~e oodod ar a has be ~n cut rep atedl y in the past. The ~rese nt stand cons ists of mixed oa s, etc. It is estim ated to cut an Avera ge of 10 eds. or fuel,o od value d @ 25¢. 270 cords 25¢ -- ~67.5 0. Impro veme nts: 0 elliru 5: Log 18x J4', 4 rooms kitoh ne 10xl5 x8', metal roof, st ~e flues , l~ story , log tinis 4, oocup 1ed by tenan 00 Barn: Log 12xl6 xl0', s hingl e roof, pmor cond ition - t - 125. 40 . 00 're"ilh ouso: Log 8xl0x 6', shing le roof, poor cond ition 10.00 11s.oo Value of land b,r types : ~ .t'...creag e 72 31 10 27 g I Fg I% g III Slope Fe Total value Total val ue Total v •l e Total vu lu .. verag e vll. 2 L32 of land of impro veme nts: or timbe r of tra ct e per aere Value ~er acre 35. -_o 10 . 00 5.00 3.00 1 Z891 . )0 175 . 00 67 . 50 ~133 .50 "3.39 .oo otal Value 2520. 00 210 . 00 50.00 81. 00 30 . 00 f2a§I.oo �M. H. HARRISON TREASURER OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA TO WHOM I':' tiAY CONCERN: I hereby certify that the show that John M. office my of records taxes for the years the Funkhouser has paiG. of land containing tract his 1932 and 1933 on Blue Ridge the 219-0-0 acres, situate in Mountains , Stonewall District, Rockingham County. All taxes prior to that are 2 matter of record unpaid, time, if any be said County. of in the Clerk's Office Given under my hand this 1933. December of 16th day L. H. Harrison , Treasurer By & a. {)Q/l'akv feputy 'Ti tness: 1 · ~ STATE OF VIIDJNIA, COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM, to-wit: I, J. Robert Switzer , Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County do hereby certify that the records in my office do not show any delinquent taxes against the tract of 219 acres in Stonewall District, assessed in the namel of .. .Tob.n M. Funkhouser . Given under my hand this 16th day of December, 1933 . Qi �1 J:N THE cmcUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM_ COUNTY, VIRGINIA. THE STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA v. :/11829 PETITIONER At Law CASSANDRA LAWEON ATKINS, ET ALS, ETC. DEFENDANTS On this, the ~ O~ay of" Decan.ber, 1933, came .rohn M. Funkhouse r and Effie Funkhouse r, and on their motion leave is given them to file their applicatio n for the payment to them of' the sum of $4,459.00 , the anDunt of the award set out in the award or condemnation ror Tract No. 226, heretofore paid into Court. And it appearing from the report of the Board of' Appraisal Commissio ners heretof'or e filed in this eause, am in tra petition for judgment am condemnat ion entered herein on the _ _ day of November, 1933, that in the opinion of petitione r, the said J"olul M. Funkhouse r and Ef'fie' Funkhouse r are . in:wested with a superior or. better right or claim of title in and to the said Tract of land No. 226, and that the record of this cause does not disc1-ose any dellial or disµite by any party or person in interest as to the title to the said Tract No. 225, or to the proceeds arising from the condemnat ion thereof, and that tile said J"ohn M. Funkhouse r and Effie Funkhouse r are entitled ~ ~receive the proceeds arising frcm the condemnat ion of' said Tract No. 226, and it further appearing to the Court that all taxes due or taxable upon said Tract No. 226 have been paid: Upon considera tion w.h.ereof, it is considered and ordered by the Court that the said sum of $4,459.00 paid into Court by petitioner as just compensat ion for Tract No. 226 be paid unto the said J"ohn M. Funkhouse r and Effie Funkhouse r; and the Clerk cr: this_ Court is directed to transmit a certified copy of' this. order to the Treasurer of V~ginia, who shall pay- unto the said J"ohn M. Funkhouse r an.d Effie FUnkhouse r the said sum of $4,459.00 , the em.cunt of the award set out in the judgment or condemnat ion for Tract No. 226, taking from the said J"ohn M. Funkhouse r and Ef'fie Funkhouse r a receipt therefor and certifyin g such payment to the Clerk of this Cot.rt for a ppropriate entry thereof as required by law. 'k/3 �NOTE-This need not be filed until the record discloses that the awards have been paid into the custody of the Courts. Virginia: In the Circuit Court of Rockingham County The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia .. PETITIONER. V. At Law No. 1829 Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) .Acres of land, more or less . . . . . . . . . DEFEND.ANTS. Comes now the undersigned and shows to the Court: That a judgment in rem has heretofore been entered in this proceeding condemning to the use of the Petitioner the fee simple estate in the tract(s) of land numbered as follows: Tract No. ~-2::_6___ ; Tract No. ____________ : Tract No. ------------; and described in the report of the Board of .Appraisal Commissioners appointed herein and shown, numbered, and delineated on the County Ownership Map filed therewith, upon payment into the custody of the Court of the sum(s) set out in the said judgment as constituting the award(s) therefor, as follows: .Award on Tract No. _'k_J::£__ $./1-£'.5-.Z~/dn Tract No. ------------ $ __________ ; on Tract No. ------------ $----------; That the report of the said Board sets forth that the following named persons claim, or appear to have a claim to an interest in the said tract(s) of land or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thmof; (Jc.Jr }-IA-l~ , , _ - - ~ J ~ ~ i ·/Ill. r ~ ,?-/CA-- That the Petitioner has paid into the custody of the Court the said sum(s) set out in said judgment as constituting the award(s) for the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) of land; That your undersigned, on the date of the said judgment in rem condemning the said tract(s) of land, owned or was (were) entitled to the following interest in the said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof:- That no other person or persons than the undersigned are entitled to share in the distribution of the said award(s) except the following named persons whose interest in said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof on the date of entry of said judgment was as follows: Wherefore, your undersigned pray(s) that [he (they) be made a party (parties) herein under the provisions of Section 21 of the Public Park Condemnation .Act, and that] an order be entered for the distribution of said sum(s) set forth in said judgment in rem as constituting the award(s) for the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) condemned as aforesaid, and for the payment to the undersigned of the said award(s) or of as much thereof as the Court may find that the undersigned is (are) entitled to _'};:_--7:-6--- $/L/J.i"Zo~ receive, and which the undersigned aver(s) is as follows: Tract No. No. ____________ $ __________ : Tract No. ____________ $ __________ ; Tract The undersigned further aver(s) that: (Leave this space blank unless there is some other pertinent matter to be brought specially to the attention of the court) h ,_2ZL__~~-~ STATE re--.:-¾~~~ - - -~~ o: _A~DR~ss ~ -_db._ - - _L_«_ __ JO(_ I RGI NI At County of _ Rocking_ham , _to-wi t.: _________________________ ______ _ T1iis 0:ay personally a ppe ared before me J . M. Funkhouser am. Effie Funkho us er- -fil'.lG--ffl..ade--oa- t-h- - -th a-t- -t:a.-e--s-ta-t eme n t s ---eon ta- ined--tn-t-h1;r-a-bo--ve---inrt-rt ion so ~~r as_f~~i; -?-~-i~-~!_T;. _S;>_!!1__ !!-!fQ~~1i9_n ar~ __t!'_\!~--~n.<LJ?Q__ fsu·__~_s__m.f!d_e_.up.un.LJ.informaOF A ~~~ly ~f t~i~ t1~~kVftrJ~~P\iel0 p1R~d itr t~~tle~ATce cJl+YenJJAw t of parties. No one is required to use this form, as the form is not prescribed by law, and claimants can De C • , 19 33 • either change or modify it as they deem necessary, or present their motions in any form they may desire which meets with the approval of the Court. This blank form may not and probably will not cover all cases. It has been printed merely as a suggestion of a form of a ~ i o)w}Jich ~ bVl ~~ed, subj N p to the approval of the court in each case. 1/ ?£,.q (27".,,.;; • • 10n ° NoT~ 1mc\~l hlfJi.~&l-\day '-fo'f �Qlnmmnunttultq nf ]lirgiutu TREAS URER' S OFFIC E RICHM OND , VA , JOHN M. PURCELL De c ember 27 , 1933 TREASURE R OF VIRGINIA This is to certi fy that I, J.M. Purce lJ, Treas urer of Virgi nia have this 27 day of Decem ber in accor dance with an order of the circu it court of Rocki ngham Count y dated 12/2 0/~ in the cause of the State Comm ission on Cons ervat ion and Devel opme nt of the State of Virgi nia vs. Cassa ndra Lawso~n....._.A~t....k.....i. .n. .....s.,_____ ___ ___ _paid to John M. Funkh ouser and Effj_e Funkh ouse , McGa beysv ille , Va. $_4_,_4_5_9_._0_0_ _ _ being in full settle ment of tract #...22£, in the above menti oned cause . Treas ure �QTommnuwralt11 nf ]lirgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND , VA . December 27 , 1933 JOHN M. PURCELL TREASURl!:R OF VIRG I N I A .John M. Funkhouser and Effie Funkhouser McGaheysvill e, Virginia Re c eived of J.M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virg inia, the sum of$ 4 , 459 . 00 , in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county of Rockingham entered on the 20th day of December 1 93L , in t h e matter of the State Commi s sion on Conservati on and Development v _ __ ___,.C~a~s~s~an .......d......._r-a.__..,L~auw~s~o~n....._=A~t=k~1un~s"-- - - -and other s , being full and complete settlemen t f or the tract of land k nown in said proceeding as #~2=2~6~-- - Sign or j gin a l and duplicate and return to t h e Treasurer of Virginia. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context funkhouser-j-a-and-effie.pdf Title A name given to the resource Funkhouser, J. A. (J. M. / John M.) & Effie Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Main Ridge near Roach Gap Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 226 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Funkhouser https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/2368eef860eaad2c6e85455a74f7b051.pdf 74f6fd3ca4ccf1034358feb60cc3fd8d PDF Text Text NAME OF CLAIMANT t/48 - Fu.ltz, Vernon Number of Acres: 143 Location.: .,est slope of m:..i.in ridg~ ne0.r Deun I ountain School . Roads: T ,/0 miles fair dirt rol:td to Spotswood r:::ruil , near top of_ ridge , thJnce seven iles to ~lkton . Soil: S n dy clay, ~ood de,t~ d nd fertili ty, s1rfuce rolli ~ mo·erat E slopes , north,1 est ~n-~ so'1t:11vest ex osures . 1 History of Tract and condition of timber~ L:::.rge portion of tr ct cle ared many ye.,.rs u. 6 0 , grazed since, :ooded area cut ove .... repe a. t~uly in p· st b-1 s wmill on trc1ct t 10 years ago, presen t st nd, mixed oaks, sorn.e pcJ1l2 r . lmprovements:D. elline; : Log , 18x28' , 2 roo::1S, s:1in~,: l e roof , bric~-c fl rns , 1 1 star~, poor con ~tion, ub n~o~ed . OlJ. oarn :' Loe; , 18:cl8., :12'. Old st ble : Fr 'B, 1Gx~O xl2', stin~l~ roof, poor conui~ ion. )wellin g : Fr-r.ie, 19x2o' ,, brick r1·1es, ,ml ls ceiled , v1<.. . ter SUJply- sJrin~ , solid fo~nQa t ion , occupie d by tenant . R . . rn: Log , 34x18x lO ', shine le roof , po,,r condit ion . Spri~ ~o~se: Fr~ e, 9x9x5' , shingle roof, poo~ co~- ition . Leu t nouse : Fr...t:1e, 14xl6:: :10', s r in, le roof, poor cond i. t-; 011. Granur y : 1"r<l. .ae, 12xl6x l2', s':·_·1 ·l3 roof, ·it' s ' l:: d l~:;i::l·-=' , poor condit ion. Han house : Fr y:e, 10xl8x 8', s'.t-n le r of . Orch~r d: ~hre~ cres . Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 45 ,~o. 00 95 40 . 00 .:225 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: 3800 . 00 >4025. 00 Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: 150 . 00 3 6.55.00 50 . 00 t'4880. 00 50 . 00 Minerals: lcr Value of Land: $ 4025 . 00 , .., Value of Improvements: $ 655 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ ~- 1.50. 00 Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Jams::: x:f:D1:B XXXXXX XXYX2i UX't,as a.•fi~ Value of Wood: $ 00.00 ~ , : a ; l O C & . ~ ~ x3c8Ci~ Value per acre for tract: $ 3,;_ . 12 'J7X1m:}rx;rrn:n:iii~ Incidenta l damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ . ·~L : ••~ . _~-/ ¢u - CL~JL (;,& �~~a~:e ~ i r c u ~ ~ ~ .- '.: _____- ounty, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conserva on an Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. _____________________________________________________________________________ _ ------------------------- A/J ~ - Jj;:Jl------------------- ------------------------ more or less, of land in __~_______ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ _________________________ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as h:ya::: ::_:r~-~~-?~kl,) __________________________ _ ;:::~:t,..f-_ My post office address is___ ___ ____ _}__lf_ _________________ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest i tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing aboutL~:l-::--:?-::_1:_/__ acres, on which there are the following buildings and-improvem ents=:~---~--~ :---------------- ------.------.------------- ---------------.-------- --A- ,;,,a,;;~-------------. --.-.--.This land 1s locate about_ __ ~_Q _____ m1les from ____ ~ ~ - - - - - - - - - - - -V1rgmia, m the Magisterial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) --=. __ The land own;,rs adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North _____ ..,ff~--~------ --------------- --------------- - 1following ac!~i; manner: my ri~~p erty about the year__________ in the I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $_J.l).d_._e.f/~-~ claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $----------------· I am the owner of_ _______________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $------------------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks·------------- ------------------------ ------------------------ ------------- ------------------------ -------------------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). oL~i~~-~:~~~~3'.;r my name and ~:rk :t~~~~~q;~~~/=~~~~~~~:~ STA;g; OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF_@~---------~ ,;_;;;l:;,,,t, dt.:__i':-L __ _ The undersigned hereby certifies that_ __]_:___ _ _________ the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath t t the matters and things appearing in his above answer are true to the best of his kno dge and belief, tbis_____ Jk/--------day oL-~-- ~~~a ·- ~estigator-or Notary Public, or Justice o e Peace. �Coun ty: Rockingham. Distr ict: Stone all l148 - Vernon Foltz 42 creaB e Claim ed: , 2-2-2 1 Asses sed l43 .11ro' Value Clai Od! n .jlO .oo ~1000 . 00 Deed 11 142.1 01 A• {1921 } for 9000 . 00 Loco.t 1on: est slope of 1n ridge near Dean 'otmtn in vohoo l . Ineumbranc es , count er cl imo or laps : ----- -- Soil: ,andy clay, good dop ~ nnd ferti lity, surfa ce rolli ng modera te, slope s N. i . and s . w. expos ures. Boads : 2 miles fair dirt road to Spots wood Tr a i l , near top of ridge , then ce? miles to ~lkto n . Eisto rxof tru~t and condi tion of clear ed many years ago, repe, ~tedl y in past by ., stand , mix d oak~, some Impro vemen ts: timbe r: Large porti on of tract grazed since , wooded a re ~ cut over wmill on t ra.et two yearn ago, prese nt pop 1 r. · ellin. rs , Log 18x28 , 2 rooms , shin ··le roof , brio~ flues , lstory ~ condi tion .oor, aband oned, Value------~~---- ---------- -~-----~--------~- , 25 . 00 cond ition poor. --~- ----- ----- ----- --- ----- --ellin s, Frame 19x25 , brick flues , walls 20 . 00 n~rn , log 18xl8 xl2 , - ----- ----- ----- ---- 10 . 00 oid s·Eabie, Frame l6x20 xl2, shing le roof , Old celled , ater suppl y-- Sprin g , found ation solid , occup i d by tenan t . ---- ----- - --- ----- ----- --- - 250 . 00 Barn, log 34x48 xl0, sL1nn le roof. cond. oor. 75 . 00 sprin g I ouse , Fr61.lle x9x5 , shing le roor, cund . poor. -~-----------------~-~----~---~---~~-~--~ 10 . 00 Meat House , Fr me 14xl6 xl0 , shing le roe ~ , cond . poor. ~~~~----~~-~~-~~~---~----------~--------- 20 . 00 Grann ery, Fro.me 12xl6 xl2 , shing le roof, with shed l~'X14, cond ition poor . ---- ----- ----- ----lien house , Frame 10xl2 x8 , shingle roof . - - --- Orcha rd , 3 acres 50 . 00 10 . 00 ,50 . 00 --- -- - ---- - - - ----- - 150 . 00 Total 620 . 00 J aj.ue of land by ;types : m;o Ora.z ing Orcha rd Aorea.se 45 . 95 3 143 Value per acre Total Value 40 . 00 ~3800 . 00 <'3 . 00 . ,135 . 00 t 3935 . 00 �Tot l ot 1 To l . vex- g 1 lu o l d lu of i p av . en o lu ot~ tr ot lu r or · 3 56 . 00 620 . 0 ,es. ,.oo 31. �Filed in the Cl~rk's Office VIRGINIA. Rockingham County, Va. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGH . AM COUNTY, SEP..3-t7 1932 THE STATE COTurnISSION ON CONSERVATION AlID DEVELOPMENT -~ ~ l e r k OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, :PLAINTIFF PETITION Aliffi MOTION OF VERNON W. )( FOLTZ, CLAIMANT TO 142 ACRES 2 ROODS vs. AND 24 POLES OF LAND EMBRAC()ED WITH; ~ ~ IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED PETITION, TO ~ M . \ ~ l. ~ ~ SET ASIDE THE FINDINGS OF FACT IN a..J.....c.J-....rt./ ~ RELATION TO THE VALUE THEREOF. )1-~ TO THE HON. H. W. BERTRAM, JUDGE OF SAID COURT: Your petition er, Vernon w. Foltz, respect fully shows unto Your Honor as follows: 1. That he is seized in fee simple of a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situate in Rockingh am County, Virginia , about eight (8) miles east of Elkton on top of the Blue Ridge Mountai n, containi ng 142 acres 2 roods and 24 poles, more or less, which said tract is entirely within the bounds of the proposed Shenand oah Nationa l Park as set out in the above entitled condemn ation petition ; that said tract or parcel of land was purchase d at public auction by your petition er on January 8,1921, as appears in the deed to said property which was recorded in the Clerk's Office of Rockingh am County in Deed Book 119 at Page 189, for the sum of Nine Thousand ($9,000. 00) Dollars , cash; that at said public sale said tract of land was cried for about two hours and at which time there were numerou s and spirited bids given, the last bid ~efore your petition er's said bid of Nine Thousand Dollars was Eight Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($8,950 .00); that said public sale was held a great many years before the proposed Shenand oah Nationa l Park was ever thought of; that said land has been used by your petition er ever since the purchase thereof as a grazing farm, and the same will graze between 60 and 80 head of cattle each and every season, which represen ts an annual income -1- �of from $540.00 to $720.00, based on the present rental value of pasture land of $1.50 per head; that said grazing farm is im- proved with all necessary buildings incident to the same, in fact your petition~r within the last year, and after the Special Investigators and Board of Appraisal Commissioners went upon the land, placed improvements upon said property in the sum of TwentyFive Hundred ($2500.00) Dollars, being the actual c.o-st of construction, and which is not included in the report of the findings of the said Spec;ial Investigators and Board of Appraisal Commissioners; and that since the purchase of said land your petitioner has improved the same by grubbing, cleaning off and fencing, thereby increasing the value; that your petitioner considers the sum of Fourteen Thousand Three Hundred ($14,300) Dollars a fair market value of said real estate .. 2. Under chapter 410, Acts 1928, the State Commission on Conservation and Development instituted proceedings to condemn said tract or parcel of land. And in these proceedings by orders entered the Court appointed George H. Levi, Miller A Frice, and Wm. L. Green special investigators and a board of Appraisal Commissioners to ascertain all facts pertinent to said tract and the compensation to be paid therefor to your petitioner. :3. That ac.t ing under authority of Sections 8 and 28 of said Act said .Special Investigators and B,oard of Appraisal C_om• missioners considered information derived by them from sources wholly unjudicial in character and notwithstanding ~hat the courts of Virginia have frequently denounced such boards as so unjudicial as to deprive their findings of any probative value, this statute sets such decisions at naught and denies to. your petitioner in the protection of his property rights the equal protection of the law and the guaranties of the Bill of Rights of Virginia and of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. That by virtue of said Sections 8 and 28 said boards, -2- �either ~ollectively or individually are authorized to II hear any statement or expression of opinion made under oath or not under oath, by any person, whether such person is or is not interested in the fact or facts they are seeking to ascertain and determine" and the widest range of investigation , wholly unjudicial in character, is vested in these boards, and further by Section 33 the findings of such boards, based on such an investigation , is made, within narrow limits, conclusive on the court. That such a legislative enactment is an unauthorized invasion upon the provinces of the court. 4. That petitioner is not given his day in court, when before the Special Investigator s and ~oard of Appraisal Commissioners, they act unjudicially in their investigation , and when, before the court, the court is denied the right to hear the claims of petitioner fully, sp that petitioner is deprived of his property without due process of law. Your petitioner claims the guaranty secured to him by the Bill of Rights of Virginia and by the Fourteenth Amendment of the 5. 0 onstitution of the United States., Tb.at the said Special Investigator s and Board of Appraisal Commissioner s have made their report in which contrary to any otherwise legal evidence before them, they have grossly misdescribed said tract and have undertaken to ascertain the compensation to which your petitioner is entitled so grossly inadequate as to show that said board or some of them were influenced by partiality or gross mistake of law and fact as to the nature and effect of the evidence with reference to which such findings were based on heresay statements, rumor and exaggeration s from parties unknown authorized by this statute and not upon legal evidence au.ch as judicial boards can only act upon. 6. That said Special Investigator s and Board of Appraisal Commissioner s have reported to the court as compensation for said tract of land the sum of Four Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Dollars ($4,880.00), which is less than 50% of the amount paid for -4- �said tract by your petitio ner at public auctio n, and not taking into consid eration the work and improv ements placed thereo n by your said petitio ner; and that said compen sation of itself is so grossly and manife stly inadeq uate as to show that the said Board of Apprai sal Commi ssioner s were influen ce by gross partia lity and gross error or misapp rehnsio n of the fact and by ignoran ce and mistak e as to the nature of the eviden ce to which such finding s were made. 7. That said compen sation is so grossl y and manife stly inadeq uate as to shock the conscie nce and amount s to the confiscati on of your petitio ner's proper ty, or in other words the taking of privat e proper ty for public uses withou t just com, pensat ion theref or. a. That out of all the tracts of land, embrac ed in the afores aid report of said Specia l Invest igators and Board of Apprai sal Commi ssioner s, the value fixed upon your petitio ner's land is the most grossl y inadeq uate and shockin g inadeq uacy contained therein , and shows conclu sively that said Board of Apprai sal Commi ssioner s arrived at their valuat ion thereo f wholly upon the illega l eviden ce hereinb efore fully set forth, and wholly ignored and disrega rded any and all legal eviden ce that could or might have shown what the true market value of the land actual ly was. 9. • That said Specia l Invest igators and Board of Apprai sal Commi ssioner s in carryin g out their invest igation s under the statue were guilty of such illega l and improp er conduc t as to render their report filed on the wholly null and void. ~ day of a~ d44, , 1932, That said Board of Apprai sal Commi ssioner s asked and sought from the agents and employ ees of the State Commissio n on Conser vation & Develop ment not only for their valuat ion of the land in questio n, but made a practic e of seeking and relying upon their aid and advice in such matter , when said Board should have acted judici ally and impart ially betwee n the State Com-4- �mission on Conservation & Development on the one hand and the landowner on the other; that said Board of Appraisal Commissioners in the discharge of their legal duties w~re transported from place to place by the agents, serv.:ants, and employees of the said State Commission on Conservation & Development; that the said State Commission on Conservation & Development furnished hearing places, temporary offices and permanent offices to the said Board of Appraisal Commissioners, and that the permanent office of the said Board of Appraisal Commissioners was in the same building and prac-tic.ally the same off ice as that used· and occupied by the State . Commission on 3onserv;ation and Development in this judicial circuit; that the employees, servants and agents of the said State Commission on Conservation & Development ~ctually participated and aided in the making and drawing of the report of said Board of Appraisal Commissioners submitted to Your Honor's Court; that in short, the association between the said agents, servants and employees of the State Commission on Conservation & Development and the said Board of Appraisal Commissioners was so close and intimate as to render the entire report null and void; that said Board of Appraisal Commissioners, for the reasons fully set forth in this paragraph, failed wholly to be an impartial or judicial tribunal but was in fact nothing more than an agency of the said State Commission on Conservation & Development of the State of Virginia, wholly incapable of acting fairly and impartially between said Commission on the one hand and the landowner on the other. 10. That the tract of land aforesaid owned by your claim- ant and petitioner is the same tract or parcel of land that is mentioned and described in the report of said Board of Appraisal Commissioners as Tract Number .//Y 11. . Your petitioner therefore prays that this Court will wholly disregard the aforesaid report of said Special Investigators and Board of Appraisal Commissioners in so far as the afore-5- �said tract or parcel of land of your petitione r is concerned for the reasons hereinb:ef ore set forth, namely that in so far as the statute prescribe the weight to be attachedto said report, it is an invasion by the legislatu re of the judicial province of the court; that the provision s of Section 8 and 28 are illegal and the findings of facts of said Board is so unjudicia l in character as to deprive said findings of any probative -v:alue; that petitione r is not afforded a day in court for the proper considera tion of his right•; that compensation to your petitione r as fixed by said Special lnvestiga tors and Board of Appraisal Commissio ners is confiscato ry; that said petition- er has been denied the guaranty of the Eill of Rights of Virginia cronstitut ion and of the Fourteent h Amendment of the Constitut ion of the United States; that said Special Investiga tors and Board of Appraisal Commissio ners were influenced by some error, mistake or misappreh ension of facts; on account of the illegal and improper conduct of said Special Investiga tors and Board of Appraisal Commissioner s wholly failed to act impartial ly and judicially , but in fact acted as an agency or sub-divis ion of said State Commissio n on Conservat ion & Developme nt. That said Special Investiga tors and Board of Appraisal er Commissio ners failed to allow your petition/a ny damages to his 12. home farm, which is situate in the Page Valley near Shenandoa h, Virginia, by reason of the taking of his said grazing farm, thereby making it impossible to carry on his regular business of cattle raising and depriving him of a place to graze his stock necessary to tha carrying on of his farming on his said home farm. WHEREFORE, The said Vernon w. Folt~ prays that the Court decline to accept the report of the Commissio ners and disapprov e the findings of fact therein set forth; that a hearing may be had on the question raised by these exception s; that the said report be set aside, and be declared null and void with respects to the v;alue placed upon the said Vernon w. Foltz' said tract of land; that the Court summon a jury to hear and determine his claim; th.at he may be awarded damages to hi s home farm for the reasons set out in Paragraph 12; �that all such other, further and general relief appropria te in the premises may be afforded the said Vernon W. Foltz as the nature of his case may require. STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF PAGE, TO-WIT: THIS day personall y appeared before me Vernon w. Foltz and made oath that the matters and things stated in the above motion, pbjection and exception s are true to the best of his knowledge and belief. Given under nzy- hand this 29th day of September , 1932. My commissio n expires June 11,1932. ry Pu Tic. 30f.. �C r0 I «) I THE: STATE COl.f.rISSION ON CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PLAINTIFF , vs. I I I I PETITION AND MOTION OF VERNOJj , W. FOLTZ, CLAIMANT TO 142 ACF ~ s 2 ROODS AND 24 :POLES OF LAND EMBRACED WITHIN THE ABOVE &NT:HID== NTtti-=t»T f I ,, ' ' KEYSER & KEYSER ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW LURAY, VIRGINI.A. ' �ROBERT W . KEYSER KEYSER & KEYSER ATTORNEYS AND COUN S ELLORS AT LAW LURAY, VIRGINIA November 18,1933. Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Harrisonb urg, Virginia . Dear Sir: I enclose herewith additiona l affidavit s to be filed in the matter of the State Commissio n an Conservat ion & Developme nt of the State of Virginia vs . G.assand.ra Lawson Atkins in regard ta the Vernon w. Foltz: tract of Ia.nd ,_ Tract No . 48,_ which you will. please fil e. Very truly yours , RVIK/MH ROBERT W. KEYSE:R ��32-1453 �\_ �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAH COUNTY, STATE a01.m:rssro1r OM CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT OF THE ST ATE OF VIRGIN IA. ADDITIO NAL AFFIDA VITS OF D. A. )( FOLTZ, JAMES C. KITE, GROVER C. KOONTZ, JOHN VI. STROIE & VERNON VS . W. FOLTZ, IN THE MAT'l'ER OF VERNON CTASSA.NDRA LAWSON ATKINS, &C W. FOLTZ, CLAIMAli!T T0 142 acres, 2 ROODS & .. 24 POIBS OF LAND EMBRACED IN THE PET lT IOl'I OF CONDEJ\!NATION FIIBD IN SAID COURT, SAID TRACT 48 BEING KNOWN AS TR~CT NO . ----------- The affian t, D. A. Foltz_, depose s as follow s: That his name is D. A. Faltz_, aged 47 years, and reside s in the County of Page, and his occupa tion is that of a farmer . He furthe r says that he is acquai nted with that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situate in Rocking ham County , Virgin ia, miles east of Elkton , on top of the Bl.ue: Ridge. Ioounta in, contain ing 142 acres, 2 roods and 24 poles, which is now owned about 8 by Vernon w. Foltz_ and sought to be condem ned in thes~ procee dings, and known and design ated on the Rocking ham County owners hip map filed in the above entitle d condem nation procee dings as Tract ..____ _• , J3 .... Iifo. ___4 Ke furthe r says that he has been upon this tract on numero us occasio ns and that he is fully ~nquai nted with the same. He furthe r says that said real estate is adapted to grazin g cattle. and other livesto ck during the late spring , summer and early fall montha and that there are approx imately 125 acres • of this real estate in good blue grasa soQ which will accomm odate and fatten betwee n forty and fifty head of cattle . He furthe r says that he is of the opinio n that this real estate is worth betwee n $60. 00 and $65. 00 per acre, or as a whole, approxi mately- $9~000 . 00, exclus ive of the improv ements put on said real estate in the He furthe r says that he has no intere st in last year or two . the said real estate . /o-12 2,W --____,, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=--=--=--=--=: =i~== ==-:== ~==== ��The affiant, James That his name is James c. c. Kite, deposes as follows: 1/ c>---., occupation farmer, Kite , aged and resides in the County of Page J that he ia acquainted with that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situate in Rockingham County,. Virginia, about 8 miles east of Elkton, on top of the Blue Ridge Mountain, containing 142 acres 2 roods and 24 poles, which is now owned by Vernon w. Foltz and sought to be condemned_ in these proceedings , and which is known and designated as: Tract No. _4_8_ _ on the Rockingham County ownership map filed in these proceedings . He further says that he has been upon this tract on numerous occasions and that he is fully acquainted with the same; that said tract is adapted to grazing cattle and other livestock from the late:_ spring until early fall; and that there are approximatel y 125 acres of this real estate in good blue grass sode which will easily accormnodate and fatten between forty and fifty head of cattle. He says that he is of the opinion that this real estate is worth about $9, 0oa. oa, recent i!IlIJrovements put on said tract . not including the He further says that he has no interest in the said real estate . The affiant , Grover- c,. Koont~ deposes. as followst That his name is Grover a. Koontz., aged f '1 is a farmer residing in the County of Page. he is well acquainted yearer; that he He further says that with that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situate in Rockingham County, Virginia, about 8 miles east of Elkton, on top of the Blue Ridge Mountain, containing 142 acres 2 roods and 24 poles, which is now owned by Vernon w. Folt~ and -.ought to be condemned in these proceedings. and known and designated on the Rockingham County ownership map filed in the above entitled condemnation proceedings as Tract No. _4_8___• �He further avers that he has often been upon this tract and that he is fully acquainted with the same~ and that said real estate is well adapted to grazing between 40 and 50 head of cattle from the late spring months until early fa11 and that because of the excellant blue grass sod. will. fatten and acconnnodate: these cattle. He is of the opinion that this real estate is worth bout $70.00 per acre, or as a whole, approximately $10,.00O.00, not including the improvements recently placed upon said tract. He further says that he has no interest in said real estate. The affiant, J"ohn That his name is J"ohn ~ age; w. w. Strole, d.eposes as follovrs: Strole, occupation farmer, and he ia that he residea in the County of Page. He further avers that he is well acquainted.with that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situate in Rockingham County, Virginia, about 8 miles east of Elkton, on top of the Blue Ridge Mountain, containing 142 acres 2 roods and 24 poili:e s, which is now owned by Vernon w. Foltz and sought to be condemned in these proceedings,. and known and designated- on the Ro~kingham County ownership map filed in the above entitled condemnation proceedings as Tract No. 48 C been upon said tract and is is well. acquainted with it; that it/:rully adapted. to grazing 40 to He further- says that he has 1 50 head of cattle from the early part of Nay until about the middle of. November and 'llla.t it has. an exc-allant stand of blue grass. He is of the opinon that this real estate ia worth approximately $9.000.00, exclusive of the recent improvements put upon said tract. Ha further says that he has no intere st in t he above real estate. rt~~- �The affiant, Vernon w. Foltz:, deposes as follows:: That he is the owner of the real estate. set out in the above mentioned petition , and that he <iesires to file these. additional affidavits as to the value and amount of improvements that he has p,ui. on sai<i real estate since the Board of Appraisal Commissionars valued said trac.t. H.e further says that he has. placed improvements upon mid real estate which a~tually- c.ost the sum of $3,DOO.oo. ST ATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF PAGE, TO-WIT: I, Mary R. Holtzman, a notary public in and for the County aforesaid_ in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that n. A. Foltz.. ~ames and Vernon w. c. Kite, Grover c. Koontz, .John w. Strole Foltz:,. the affiants: in the above paper, personall.y appeare<i before me, and made oath to the facts set forth above and subscribed_ the same. Jizy- ~onn:nission expires .June 11,1935. Given under rqy- hand this 18th day of No~ember, 1933. �I I STATE co::USSION ON CONSERV- I iTION & DEVELOPJ.rENT OJJ, THE TATE OF VIRGINIA. I .ADDITIONAL AFFIDAVIT S 0 D.A.FOLTZ ,JAMES C.KITE, I GROVER C.KOONTZ, JOHN W. , STROLID & VERNON W. FOLT ! VS.)( IN THE MA'l'TER OF VERNOJ W.FOLTZ,C LAnlANT TO 142 1 ACRES 2 ROODS & 24 POLID: I OF LA.i."'ID EMBRACES IN PETITION OF CONDE!,!NATIOJ SAID TRACT BEING KNOWN II AS TRACT NO. 48 I I I I I ! 1 ! CASSANDRA LAWSON ATKIUS, · &C 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I KEYSER & KEYSER I ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW I LURAY, VIRGINIA I I I I �VIRGill~ •- ~CIBCU T COUii! OF ROCIIl!G COUB'ttt JANUARY~ 'its!~ _i ION O CO SE VT O D DEWLOPMEII! l GINI , - - - • • • • • PETITIO 'l'HE S?A'?E CODI 0 '?RE S?A OF V • son CASS/\llDRA U T .ms , ET Al.S , AND FIFTY- 0 '.fflOU Am> FIVE WDRED SIX1.I• ONE (62,6il) AC OF , ORE OR LESS , !I' ROCIIIGH.Alt COUliTY, VIRGI IA., - • - - DEF D S ~} II RE t CLAIM 01'' VERfON W. ~•!{ a.u.u~ ,..,..,~ ~ 1 ~3 w. F l~s, o. 48 d . Felt&, i:a p$rH , aa well as e tae peti ioner by Counsel: ..d t er eupo as 'be Hveral t , Vel"ll8n e the cli1 by Cou:nael , ad .ls• o di 4 OLTZ - TRACT pstit1 ner by C unael move t th~ Ceur oTerrule otio a, e jei: ions ud exeeptiona of said cb. e r etoter e i te r pesed oar d or d filed mt Appraisal C d t , Verno rea _eot te tae fi»dings set fort issienera appein din thir roceed• il'lg, as to said tract ·o . 4:8, up :r. the s id neth s, ebjeeth:111; , and e:cc pti& s, t~e ans,rer A. f tne pe1 bioncr , and the sev ral su perti a _e ition~r and the said clain ai,~ed by t~e clai.:,.c t who aidered togetker wit affidavits filed b y $aid motion •t t . wkio e etitioner was re- rayed the Court to kear oral tes,im ny, te be con- t e said aupperti~g tfidavita , i support er hi s i eeveral m tiena , ebjectiens a..~d e%oeptio s . Al\d .etiti ner by Counsel , offeri~g n• bjectioa te the. ring ot nth clair1a tin hia pr ayer for the he ri g oral teati on1, t e Court r cceeded t heart oral testimo y f wit e ~es and peti'bioner respeotiv ly. 1:aoludiag tae teatl ony b r t tile and claim t by Ceunael , having stipuldted in ope Cou , na · i ••far as the tie a, objecti ah claim r r ca pe aat i n fe r 1t1prov e fi l i»e et weu d be s 1 ~e r epor~ oft e said d by LAW OFFICES ELLIOTT MARSHALL FRONT ROYAL, VA, 1"&11 d by t eard ach res eot1Te y aa:m.e te be oe•ni ered by t eats • or f. ol aaid tract e.de by Appraisal Ce related im si•c is iener a, viden e , to tao value or said 1 pr ve a~ s, Court separatel s id moti~ a, objooti d exoeptions ad apar and exoeptio a tr er 11 t e th r q1osvi na aid cl 1m t, r il �• ld •t • 0 • a 11 lemsa t ra, ti I 1 ~ LAW OFFICES ELLIOTT MARSHALL FRONT ROYAL, VA. ear I • r t • • lo �o pen,a ti • 8peoi al I•vee tiiato r1 and Appr isal C r.n.ias ioners asoer taiud the •rd ea the that cldaa llt ii entitl ed t•, in any r;roas aJtd 1 dequa te maue r, aaid ioard •t evide• c• submi tted by the claima nt uid the petiti ener a ow tlt&t ced by partia l~ Appra isal Cerim1aa1o•era, or any of tu meabe re bher •f were iuflue ev1denc 1ty, •r mistak e et law ud faot &ate the nature and effec t ot the ' ... , ,·· ai••er s wita relati &• t tM valu oft e said tract and tke i ciden tal du.age s , tnat will accrue fr m ita prop•e d ce demna ti rumor and en i - era.ti a aay atatem ere baaed ct ~e t, fr0m any persen s v, o a.teve r, as all ged by tae elai ,.a i i:n his add moth a, ob.1eo ti ons nd excep tions, ca pemaa. tion. a.iacer tain~d. by so.id oard Apprc .iod C¢1. • f rt, excl u~ing :J.saio era for said tract •f lad a d sot f rhk in their eaid rep ot said r~pcr t, is t e Talue oft e illproveme ta plac d there n since t e filin not 10 crossl y v..d to ce tisca ti ~ t ~nife atly i ~deq~ te · b .6ck he c of s id pr~pe rty, 1s allege d in paragr&p ... b,iectl ons o.nd exccr ti »"'; d that the s~i~r.c e ner t 7 ef el~ilu m '• motion s t vide oe botore the Curt is tion 1 cient to s·• .a.in a !'i ding that said c npe &.~QUBt uffi• in aay wise unju tor in- adequ ate. ioners were That aid Speci al l:Gtveatigatora and Board et Appra is 1 Cot'lll'liss• nob guil y of illega l and impr per oondu ct ill scert ini.:ne nd de• termin in~ the v lue f the said tract, as allege d in para ap 9 f cl im nt•s ot1on s, objeot 1o Tnat neithe r by the c ail::1 in writin g filed wita tae record 1 th b r~re the Clerk 's Office by the said clai!!a nt, n r by y olai t ereaft er made 4 e f111 , of eard t Appra ise! C iasio era urei n r t uy ime pri•r 0 • by er of tho aaid eard •f Appra isal Co missio •ers wa a y cl•i made the report c• beh&l.lt r ·o claimant ac te any incids nt 1 or conseq uentia l dama es result inc other lands ef clai ant not sougll t t er be oond the prcpcis ed conde ~atien of"' aaid tra.ot a claim. fer such i cide ·tal or c n oque LAW O F FICES ELLIOTT MARSHA LL FRONT ROYAL, VA. this pr ceedi g in 1.ub-a ectic• 12 r . ial d ed in tai s precee ding, by reas 48, and tllat f r the first tin1e ages appea r in ta t :b.is aaid aotion a, ebj cti• s r cvrd of :n xcepti naJ �t • \ 4"1 ot a p •'t'tl ll .,. la a\&1. 8 "pa obj• \1 di • • \o.., • •• ,.-ti e •• 0 • hare ' r reo• m•ti rket 11" 1U. • I lu• •£ • • ra " 1 repe •t .oo). 11,u·•· , • et rc,t,y N 11..... t , • • o. r 11 • • - id t •• • 1 • • • r 11 or 0 • (l LAW OFFICES ELLIOTT MARSHALL fl • al bi "d I I FRONT ROYAL, VA . I •• • �STATE OF VIRGINI A ) COUN'l'Y OF 1JARREN ) SS 1 Persona lly appeared before me the unders i gned Notary Public in my said State and County, E. K. S t okes, who b eing duly / sworn , deposed and said that she is an employee of the State Commiss i on on Conserv ati on and Developm ent in imme 1. · diate ·charge of the records of the Shenand oah Na tipnal Park Division thereof having to do with claims of the Commiss ion fOr distribu tive , shares of condemna tion awards in the Shena:ndo-~h Na tio.p.al Park co:t?-demna tion proce.ed; tngs pending in ,t.he _ -_: G,ir,cuit _.Courts of. V:i,.rgini a, by reason of c9ntrac ts 8.nd agreements entered into with the owners of lands sought to be condemned in these proceedi ng s , and that the vTithi n cla im is ju~t and correct . .t ' ) I , Given under my hand t his 2nd day of • 'j' j .... ···. :· ' :. . ,,! ~ ;:., ... :J . r • i,. •· • ; �I NOTE-This need not'be filed until the r~ord discloses that the awards Jl'ave ,Courts. Filed h, foe ~'· "'· ·" .) es::\ve Rockingham County, Va. been paid into the custo9f , 9f the f,.;/H 1934 1 In the Circuit Court of Rockingham County -. Virginia: lerk The State Commission on Conservation and Devel·opment of the State 1of Vir V. At Law No. 1829 Cassand11a Laws on Atkins and others, and Fifty-T:wo Th ousand, Five Hundred ·a nd Sixty-'One (52,561) Acres of land, more or less Defendants. Comes now :bhe ·undersigned and shows to the Court: Th-at a judgment in rem :ha·s heretofore been entered in this proceeding c·o ndemning to the use of the Petitioner the fee simple estate in the trad(s) of land numbered as foUo,w s: Tract No. .. . ............. : Traiet No..................... : Tract No ..................... ; and de:s cribed in the report of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners •a ppointed therein and shown, number,e d, and delineated on the County Owne;rship Map filed therewith, upon payment into the custody of the Court orf 1:Jhe sum (s) set ,o ut in the s,a id judgment •a s constituting the award (s ) therefor, as follows: Award on Tract No ...48........ $.6.3.6..0... 0.Q on Tract No .............. . $ ................ ; on Tract No ............... $ ................ ; Th·a t the report of the said Board sets forth that the foll'owing named peroons claim, or appear to 'have a daim to an interest in the said tract(.s ) ,o f land ,o r in the pi,oceeds arising fr.om the condemnation thereof; 1 Vernon W. Foltz That ,t he Petitioner has paid into the custody of the Court the s•a id sum (s) set out in s·a id judgment as constituting the award (s) of the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) of land; That your undersigned, on the date of the said judgment in rem condemning the said tract(s) of l•a nd, owned or was (were) entitled ,t o the following interest in the said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the c1ondemnatio~ thereof:1 1 Under th~ terms of a duly recorded contract and deed conveying the Skyline roadbed running through this tract, the own.er granted and 'eonvey d to the undersigned the right to receive from said roceeds, the sum of l76~00 That no otJheir person or persons than the undersigned are entitled to share in the distribution ,of the said award (s) exce·pt the foll:owing named persons whose interest in said tr.act(s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof on the date of entry of said judgment was as follows: The above mentioned claimant to the exte t that he may be a le to establish iA c aiJi. Wherefore, your undersigned pray (s) that -f~ - be- ma4,e-a;m:rit -('f}tl.;f"t;'ies-)---hereiR-afldet'-tm-ttt>o¥is:iioHS- 6'f-8eeti-efl- 4H -~1--the..P.1:t'&He-Pa-~ :a-e'lffil'&tion--Ae:lr,---and·-vhatj an order be entered for the distribution of said sum (s) set forth in said judgment in rem as constituting the award(!'!) for the f.ee simple esta,te in the said tract(s) c,o ndemned as aforesaid, and for the payment to the undersiigneid of the said award ('S) or .of as much thereof as the C'Ourt may frrtd that the undersigned i's (are) entiUed to receive, and whiich the undersigned aver( s ) is as foUo,w s : Tract No.. ............ $.l.Z§.,.QQ : Tract No................. $................ : Tract No ................ . $ ................ ; The undersigned further aver(s ) that: (Le,a ve this spa,c,e Mank unless there is somtl othe r pertinent matter to be brou ght e'spedaHy to the attention of, the court) 1 NAME P. 0. ADDRESS ... STATi ECOAHISSION lt ._ON .. CONSERVATION . AND D Pf . Uuu41P1// / T 1\ .. J~X..... ·· .. ·· -.. b1;-:1 f.u ...'fj:.• ~~COU'tIBEL ························ ···················································· 1- NO'IIE-A supply of this ·b lank has been placed in the Clerk's office for the convenience of interested parties. No one ia required to use this form, as the form is not pre;cribed ,b y law, and claimants can either cilange or modify it as they deem necessary, or present their motions in any form they may desire which meets with the approval of the Court. This tb lank form may not and probably will not cover all cases. It has been printed merely as a suggestion of a form of a motion which may be used, subject to the approval of the court in ~h case. ______________ __________________________________ _ ,.. ,_ _, �VIRG1NIA. IN TH}.: CIRCTirTT COU T OF ffiCKINGH , .1 COU:NTY. The 0tat e Commission on Conservation & Development of the State of Virginia , Petitioner , v. 0assandra Lawson $tkins , et als , defendants . ,June 25th , 1935 . This day came petitioner by counsel and exhibited to the Court it.s motion in writing , heretofore filed herein , requesting that out, of the 1-rr-oceeds of.! condemnation of Tract ~o . 48 , claimed by Vernon Foltz , that it be paid the sum of One Hundred and 3eventy- eHx Dollars ( -~176 . 00) upon the grounds set forth in said motion in 11riting . Upon consideration 1.i hereof , it appearing to the ~ourt from an inspection of said motion in ·writing and of the deed from the s s id •ernon F.oltz , to petitioner , and of the -,,hole of the record in this ca se, that petitioner is entitled to said sum of )176 . 00 so claimed , it is adjudged and ordered thPt the 'l'rea rurer of v-iro-inia , out of the funds in his hands to the credit of this vourt in this proceeding, do pay to petitioner the aforesaid sum of ~176 . 00 a nd deduct the same from the gross proceeds of condemnation of said Tract No . 48 . �June 1 9 th, l93 5 . f,.r. Ver non 70 1 tz , ~ l kt ou . Va . De r r. 'olt z: or t e se ~rou to n , r .. • a/ t . o y to obe rt "' .yse r , Lur y , V • 1 m n our s cr- 1 r·ul y , �Qtnmmnnwraltq nf Birginia TREASUER'S OFFICE RI C H M O N D , VA , J'une 29, 1935 ~LX. TREASURER OF VIRGINIA A. B. Gathright This is to certify that I, of Virginia have this 29 ~ day of June Treasurer in accordance with an order of the circuit court of Rockingham County dated 6/25/35 • • in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Develo:pment of the State of Virginia Atkins Lawson --------------------VS• - - - - -Cassandra :paid to $ State Commission on Conservation & Development 176.00 being in full settlement of tract #-4--'-8_ __ in the above mentioned cause . 2o �<1rnmmnuwtaltb nf ]lirgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. -~~t!1dtx:~t!~-'l~k June 29, 1935 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA State Commission on Conservation & Devel~pment Received o f ~ Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 176.00 , in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county of_~R=o~c=k~i=n=gh=am~--- entered on the of June 25th day _1936._, in the matter of the State Commission on Conservation and Development v _ __ ___C _a_s_s_a_n_d_r_a_ L _a_w _ s_o_n_ A_t_k_i_n _ s ___ and others, being full and complete settlement for the tract of land known in said proceeding as #- 4~8____ __Executive Secy & Treas. Sign original and duplicate and return to the Treasurer of Virginia. 21 �-. The Commonwealth of Virgini a, To the Sheriff of the County ot Rockingham, Greeting i .. . We command you tha;.t you cause the State COllllllission on Conserv ation and Development ot the State of Virginia , to have possessi on .of the followin g describe d tract, or parcel of land, to-wit: A certain tract or parcel ot land with the building s and improvements thereon lying, being and situate in Stonewa ll Magister ial Distric t ot said Rockingham c0unty, about two miles northea st ot Swift Run Gap, on both sides ot the Skyline Drive, and bounded by lands formerly claimed or owned by J. B. Dean, L. G. Meadows, G. s. Lough, Wesley A. Dean, Dorsey z. Dean and J.B. Dean; said tract contains about one hundred and forty-th ree (143) acres, but be the same more or less, and is a part of the lands acquired by said State Commission on Conserv ation & Development in certain condemn ation proceed ings institut ed and conducte d in the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Virgini a, under the style of State Commission on Conserva tion & Development of the State ot Virginia , Petition er, v. Cassand ra Lawson Atkins, and others, defenda nts, which the said State Conmission on Conserv ation & Development of the State of Virgini a, late in our Circuit Court ot the County of Rockingham hath recovere d against Vernon w. Foltz, whereof the said Vernon w. Foltz is convict as appears to us of record. And how you have execu~ed this writ make known to the said Court on t he first day of its next term, succeedi ng the date hereof. And have then there this writ. Witness , J. Robert Switzer , Clerk of our said Court at the Courtho use this ;;-t/-aay of ~ 1935 , and in tho l.59th Par of the Commonwealth. 11 4 �I I I l I I r ~ ~ '\\) "'4- t ~ -~ ~~ d:::z t ~ ~ Not finding Vernon.W.Foltz at his usual place of abode,Exeouted Sept.18,1935 by delivering a ! t~ue oopy of this Writ of Posseuion to Jira Vernon. w. Foltz in pera.on,at said Vernon t. Foltz usual p1aoe of abode ~a; Vernon.W.Foltz: being a. me,.mber of the family above the age of 16 years ,and explainingthe purpoas thereof to her. ~ ll/4 _I,; LI/ y ?;:;t£:-~ \ -- ~A/,/ D.S.for a.a.Fawley ,S.R.C. �AUBREY G , WEAVER WM . C. ARMSTRON G LAW OFFICES WEAV ER & ARMS TRON G FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINI A November 9th,l9 35. Mr. J. Rober t Switz er, Clerk , Harri sonbu rg, Virgi nia. Dear Mr. Switz er: A writ of posse ssion on the jud~e nt in of State Commission on Conse rvatio n & Development v. Verno unlaw ful detai ner n Foltz , was issue d some month s back, return able to the first day of your Octob er term, which w~s Octob er 21st, 1r I recal l corre ctly. I am think ing that this writ is now dead and that a new one will have to be i ssued . I am reque sted by the Chain:nan of' the state Commission on Conse rvati0 n & Devel opmen t, to proce ed with the evict ion of Foltz at once. There fore, I am askin g that you issue a new writ return able place in the hands of the prope r offic er at your earli est : ovember 22nd, and conve nienc e. a/t. Yours very ��THE COMMON ''EALTH OF VI RGI NIA , TO THE SHERIFF' OF TH• COUNTY OF ROC~ I NGH.Alt , GREETING: Vte command you that you c aus the State Commissi on on , Cons rvati on and Develop ment of the State of Virgin ia, to have posses s ion of t'ie follo·-1 ng describ ed tract, or p reel f land , to- it: A cert1in tract or parcel of land with the buildin gs and improve ment s hereon , lying, be1ng and s itu qte in Stonew all t J.!: "vJ ~ Magis terial Distri ct ~f sa td R~CAingham County , about t~o mtle~ northe as t of wift Rn Gap, on both ~ide s of tno SKyl ine Drive , anct bounde d by lands f rmerly clai med or owned by J.B . Dean , L. G. eadows , G. s. Lough , Wesley A. Dean, Dorsey z. Dean and -< J . B. Dean; said tract cont ains about one hundred and forty-t hree (143) acres , but be the s·me more or le ss , and i s a art of the lands acquire d by said State; Commis sion on Conser v::,t ion and Dev lopmen t in certain condem nation procee dings lnstitut d and conauc ted in thoCirc uitC()u rt of Rocking ham County , Virgin ia, under the style of Stute Commi s sion on Conser vation and Develop ment of the State of Virgin ia , Petitio ner , v. Cassan dra La son AtKins , and others , defend ant~ , \\hich tho e;aid State Commis sion on Conser v tion and Develop ment of the State 0f Vir~in ia , lnte in our Circui t Co urt of the County of RocKingham hath recove red agains t V rnon i. Foltz, ~hereo f the sa i d Vernon ~- Foltz is convic t s appear s to us of record . And how you have execute d this grit ma~e Kno ·n to the said Court on the 22d day of Novomber next succee ding the date hereof . And have then and there this \\rit . V'itnes :: , J. Robert Sv,i tzer, Cler:i'. of our raid Co ,1rt, at the Co rt :ouse thereo f, this day of Novemb er, 1935 , and i n the 160th y ar of the C~mmon~ealth . �, I .. IO.HIV .o no nol 0 t l l 0 0:) 0 :ta l o:t V T . D D ' 0 0 8 ·o rl:t 'lo ;t j d1 jo 'l 0 a ol j n lj l ol 0 o no j 0 •• lr-oj ...... ~t nlb ~- d ¼ ~ ¾ rl l: ~j n.t ~ t n:oO V'I j' l ujl j l 0 0 n ':ta 0 nil .a . rl.:t- j'IO'l lo j 'I • 'I fill • j nc no no.t l j '1 It t l 0 l . IJ 0 ~ 0 • 0 l .1) ( t l 0 l 0 t l 'IlV 'le 1 1 l'I 00 j j rtt 1 lo "I • ' 1 o ;tn j j Io • It Li O :CI • j 'I b l l ol: on ri:t n 00 n n 1 :) j . 10 ,: rl • l j J j 'I j noO 'I l !.!O'I.10 'IIJOO t.10 0 nl 0 l j 'I ! t' ol:;t b .. V 0 'I • !l ll !1 jruJ l V • rl:t 'Il 0 bn lo :tlo nl :t j l j t t b 'I . 00 ~ n .o. .a . d j 0 'I n lo l j .t j ~ • "l 0 I d b 'I .r fl .t Ol'Ij 1 j l l :tn ::) lnl ' c.fl j'41 0 n i l j tfIO !al d . b I d j '9' Cl d t j ') "IO V rl j n ~ j 0 ,a .r l ' 'I :t .t 1 j . l 0 0 j 0 j 0 "I 1 rf j n b �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA . ST TE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPME1-J"T OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA PETITION OF VERNON W. FOLTZ vs . )( FOR AN ORDER OF DISTRIBUTION CASSANDRA LAWSON ATKINS, &C . TO THE HONORABLE H. W. BERTRAM, JUDGE OF SAID COURT : Your peti tioner , Vernon w. Foltz, respectfully represents unto Your Honor as follows : That he is the owner in fee simple of a certain trac t or parcel of land, lyi ng and being situate in Rockingham County, Virgi ni a , about 8 mi les east of Elkton, on top of the Blue Ridge Mountain, containing 142 acres, 2 roods and 24 poles , more or l e ss , and within the bounds of the Shenandoah National Park, and which i s known and designat ed on the Rockingham County ovmership map filed in the above entitled condemnation proceedings as Tract No . 48 ; and That the Spe c ial I nvest igators and Board of Appraisal Commissioners heretofore appointed in these proceedings awarded your petitioner the sum of $4880 . 00 as compensation anddamages for the taki ng of the aforesaid land as will more fully appear from their report f i led in these proceedings ; and That your petitioner filed exceptions to said Commissioner ' report in Your Honor ' s Court praying that the Court decline to accept the report of Commissioners and disapprove the findings of fact therein set forth, and on which exceptions a hearing was hand, and upon the determination of said exceptions by Your Honor ' s Court an order was entered awarding your petitioner the sum of _ _ _ _ __ __ Dollars ( $ It; IJ: b'D oG ) for compen- sation and damages for the taking of the aforesaid tract of land; FORD 8: KEYSER ATTORNEYS a: COUNSELLORS AT LAW LURAY, VIRG INIA and �That the petition for condemnation in this cause states that your petitioner is the fee simple owner of the real estate aforesaid and that t he record · n thi suit .does not disclose any denial or dispute of such statement or charge contained in said petition . Your petitioner alleges and avers that there are no liens or encumbrances of any kind whatsoever binding the aforesaid tract or parcel of land. WHEREFORE, your petitioner prays that the Court may make an order which shall be entered in this cause directing that the aforesaid sum of $ ~ Lf-.<iD ~ ( to the said Vernon w. shall be forthwith paid over Foltz, the landowner as af oresaid, or the attorney of record. By Counsel .- ~ ~ COUNSEL FORD 8: KEYSER rtORNEYS a COUNSELLORS AT LAW LURAY, VIRGINIA �\J) STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION & DEVELOPI'.1E:NT OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA VS. )( PETITION OF VERNON W. FOLTZ FOR .AN ORD* ER OF DISTRIBUTION CASSANDRA LAWSON ATKINS, FORD & &c KEYSER ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW LURAY, VIRGINIA �. • ... STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM, to-wit: I, J. Robert Switzer, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, in the State of Virginia, the same being a Court of Record, do hereby certify tha t in the records of delinquent taxes in my office, I find no record of any taxes against the tract of 142 - 2 - 24 , being delinquent, said tract being assessed in the name of Vernon W. Foltz , situate in Rockingham County, State of Virginia , and being tract #48, acquired by the State Commission on Con. & Development of St. of Va. Given under my hand this 20th day of January, 193 7 . 9dl~~ ~ J . ~Switzer, ~ h e Circuit Court of Rocking am County, Virginia . �" " IN THE CIBCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGFLi\M COUNTY, VIBGINIA. STATE CONwUSSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOP:MENT OF THE STATE OF VIHGINIA. vs. )( ORDER OF DISTRIBUTION TO VERNON W. FOLTZ. CASSANDRA LAWSON ATKINS, &C On this ?:t>';'t-.,. clay o:f January, 1937, again came Vernon W. Foltz, who heretofore by leave o:f Court filed his petition and application :for the payment ta him of the. sum of $ 0 0-0 b D' b4:: , the :final amount of the award set out in an order entered in this Court upon the determination o:f exceptions filed to the original report o:f the Board o:f Appraisal Commissioners for Tract No. 48, which said sum has heretofore been paid into Court. And it appearing to the Court from the report of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners here to:fore :filed in this cause and in the petition :for judgment and condemnation entered therein that in the opinion o:f the petitioner the said Vernon VI . Foltz is vested wi.th a superior right or claim of title in and to said tract of land No. 48, or to the proceeds arising :from the condemnation thereof, and is therefore entitled to receive the proceeds arisi:r.g from the condemnation of said Tract No. 48, and it appearing to the Court that all taxes due or exigible thereon have been paid, upon consideration whereo:f it is ordered by the Court that s~~d sum o f $D~ Q--0 · aid into ~ourt by petitione ~~~~p17,~s~ ~ ~~ ~~~ · llas just comp~ion ~or said Trac said Vernon ¥. o. 48,11 be paid unto the 1-t'oltz, and that the Clerk o:f this Court be, and is hereby, directed to transmit a certified copy o:f this order ~ ..2.... \J~ w ~c--... to the Treasurer o:f Virginia, who shall pay unto 'S,ilnd ~ ne:,eer, ::LuP~, Page County, Virginia, a.:ttornoys o;f: rQ<;;sra fox 'bae said FORD 8c KEYSER a: COUNSELLORS AT LURAY, VIRGINIA ATTORNEYS LAW • 1 �~ w. Fol+r.l, the sum o:f $ b3 0 4~ , the final amount of the award set out in the order entered by this Court upon the determination of exceptionsliled to said ~ommissioners' report ~ ~ I '71P t° Op:'-'<>-A4 for said Tract No. 48)\ and ertif'y such payment to the Clerk of this Court for appropriate entry thereof' as required by law. FORD 8: KEYSER a: COUNSELLORS AT ATTORNEYS LURAY, VIRGINIA LAW �IN THE ClliCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIIDINIA State Commission on Conservation and Development of State of Virginia vs . No . 1829 Petitioner Condemnation Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others and 52 , 561 acres of land, more or less . Defendant In the matter of the order entered herein on the 10th day of September , 1938, on motion of State Commission on Conservation and Development aild the Treasurer of Virginia, directing that Vernon W. Foltz and Robert W. Keyser show cause why they and each of them should not be directed to refund and pay over to the Treasurer of the State of Virginia , the sum of One Hundred Twenty Dollars ($120.00) alleged to have been paid by the said Treasurer of Virginia unto the said Vernon Vi . Foltz in excess of the amount to which said Foltz was entitled on the face of the record herein , as his distributive share of the a\Yard to which he ·was entitled by reason of the taking by said Commission of the tract of land known in these prec eedings as Tract No . 48, came the parties, to- wit: State Commission on Conservation and Development, the Treasurer of Virginia by counsel , Robert W. Keyser and Vernon W. Foltz, by counsel, on this the 6th day of March , 1939, and submitted the motion on which said order to show cause was entered, the answer thereto and the entire record herein and prayed that the Court adjudicate and determine the respective rights of the various parties herein, arising out of the matters set forth in said motion and answer . Whereupon,the contentions of the parties having been argued at length by counsel, the Court found that the said award to which thesaid Foltz was entitled by reason of the taking of said tract as set forth in the order entered herein on January 22 , 1934, on · e·xceptions · . · to the value fixed and ascertained for the taking of said tract by the Board of ~ppraisal Commissioners 1 �2. anpointed herein, was $6,480 . 00 and that the amount actually paid the said Foltz by the said Treasurer of Virginia under the order of this Court directing payment thereof, entered herein January 20, 1937, for the sum of $6,304 . 00, being the amount of said award of $6,480.00 less the sum of $176 . 00 theretofore paid to the said Commission pursuant to the terms of a distributive order entered herein on the 22nd day of January, 1934 , was not in excess of the amount to which the said Foltz was entitled under the said order; and the Court further found that the deficiency of $120.00 in the special fund in the hands of the Treasurer of Virginia for application to the award for the taking of said tract originated in the failure or omission of the State Commission on Conservation and Development to pay into the said fund the full amount of said award of $6,480 . 00; -- the amount actually paid in as appears from the face of the record being $6,360 . 00: "Whereupon, the parties having submitted their respective ri ghts and obligations , arising out of the facts disclosed by the record, and the said order to show cause and answer here in, to the &djudication of this Court in this proceeding, it is considered, adjudged, ordered and decreed that the motion to show cause on which the said order to show cause was entered September 10, 1938, should be and it is hereby dismissed: And it is further adjudged, ordered and decreed that the said State Commission on Conservation and Development should and shall pay over to the Treasurer of Virginia, from the funds in its hands known as "Shenandoah National Park" funds, the sum of $120. 00 to · be placed by the said ; t,. in his hands ~u..~1.;-,,, ?' . I r-th.e-~ ayme n t fo sa..id TT.{;tC..t No., 48 . ti �3. Costs in this proceeding, but not including attorneys fees, will be taxed against the State Commission on Conservation and Development. Enter: .Jh·«t3 Judge 1L �0 fJL/ I 76 l~ / 3 6 Ii u CJ �VIRGIIHAa IN Tilli CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKIHGHAH COUNTY TIIB STATE COM11ISSION OH CONSERVATION AlID DEVELOPMEUT OF TH~ STATE OF VIRGIIUA Petitioner v. CASSAlIDRA LAWSON ATKI 1S AUD OTHERS, AUD FIFTY- T'i~O THOUSAlID, FIVE HUlIDRED AND SIXTY-om: (52.,561) ACRES OF LAIID, .10RE OR LESS • Defendants On this day ca.me the State Commission on Conservation and Development the petitioner in the above entitled condemnation proceeding, and Edwin B. Jones, Treasurer of Virginia, by counsel, and exhibited the record herein, including the report of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners appointed herein, and the County Ownership Map filed therewith, in which report the value of Tract Ho. 48 as shown on said map, less a hundred foot wide strip traversing the same, and known as the Skyline Drive strip, was found and reported to be ~4,760 . 00, being $4,880. 00 the appraised value of the entire tract, less $120 . 00 the value found for the said Slcy'line Drive strip: the judgment entered herein upon exceptions to these findings, allowing an increase of $1600. 00 on the values ascertained by the Board of Appraisal Commissioners by reason of buildings erected on this tract after its value had been ascertained and reported by the Appraisal Commissionersa the judgment in rem entered herein condemning Tract No. 48, less the said Skyline Drive strip, to the use of the petitioner upon payment into the custody of the Court of $6 , 360. 00 the amount of the award adjudicated for the taking thereof, being $4,760. 00, the value set thereon by the Appraisal Commissioners, plus $1600. 00 allowed as aforesaid :for the newly C(?nstructed buildings: the order of this Court setting forth the fact of payment by the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the amount of said award, $6 , 360. 00, into the custody of the Court by the payment of said a.mount $6 , 360 . 00 to the Treasurer of Virginia, to be held by him subject to the order of the Court: the distribution order entered June 26, 1935, directing payment by the Treasurer of Virginia to the State Commission on Conservation and De1:,ropment from the amount of this award in his hands of the sum of $176 . 00, -pursui~tto the terms of a deed conveying said Skyline Drive strip to the Commission, executed June 11, 1931 and recorded in Deed Book 150 at page 64 in the office of the Clerk of this Court, wherein Vernon w. Foltz, the owner of said Tract No. 48, authorized and directed such payment to the Commission from any award adjudicated for the taking of said Tract No. 48 in the course of the above entitled condemnation proceedings the distribution order entered January 20, 1937, directing payment by the Treasurer of Virginia to Vernon W. Foltz, the former ovmer of this tract, of the sum of $6, 304. 00 from the amount of the said award held by him subject to the order of the Courta and the certificates of the Treasurer of Virginia to the Clerk of this Court setting forth the fact of payment by him of the said sum of $176.00 to the Commission, and of the said sum o:f $6 , 304 . 00 to Vernon w. Foltz, a total of $6 , 480 . 00, in obedience to said orders entered respectively June 25, 1935 and January 20, 1937, being $120 . 00 more than the sum of $6, 360.00 adjudicated for the taking of Tract No. 48 less the said strip, and paid over to the Treasurer of Virginia as above set forth . 1vhereupon, A. c. Carson, Counsel for the State Commission on Conservation and Development and the Treasurer of Virginia, moved the Court for an order directed to the said Vernon W'. Foltz and Robert W. Keyser, the attorney who represented him in procuring the entry of the above mentioned distribution order, entered January 20, 1937, directing them and each of them to show cause JC/, �why they and each of them should not be required by order of this Court, to refund to the Treasurer of Virginia the sum of $120 .00, on the ground that it appears from the face of the record itself, that the sum of ~6 ,304.00 paid to Vernon W. Foltz by the Treasurer of Virginia, pursuant to the terms of said distribution order, was $120 .00 in excess of the amount he was entitled to receive from said award, and in excess of the amount in the hands of the Treasurer of Virginia, subject to the orders of this Court distributing the award adjudicated and paid into the custody of the Court for the taking of the lands of the said Vernon W. Foltz . Upon consideration whereof, and it appearing on the face of the record that the Treasurer of Virginia did in fact pay unto the said Vernon W. Foltz the sum of $6 ,304.00, as improvidently directed in said distribution order entered January 20, 1937, which a.~ount was one hundred and twenty dollars ($120.00) in excess of the amount to which said Foltz was entitled on the face of the record, and also ~120 .00 in excess of the amount held by the Treasurer of Virginia subject to the order of this Court on account of the award for the taking of said Tract No. 48; and, it appearing further that the said over payment arose by reason of the failure of Vernon W. Foltz and his counsel to direct the attention of the Court, when they procured the entry of said distribution order dated January 20, 1937, to the fact that the award for the taking of said Tract No . 48, less the above mentioned Sk<.rline Drive strip, as finally adjudicated in the above mentioned judgment in rem, was $6 ,360.00 and that the amount of said award paid over to the Treasurer of Virginia by the State Connnission on Conservation and Development was $6 ,360000, being one hundred and twenty dollars less than the adjudicated value of said Tract No . 48 in its entirety; and, it appearing further, that the over-payment was directly attributable to the erroneous representation to the Court by Vernon W. Foltz and his attorney, Robert W. Keyser, when said order was entered, that the sum of $6 ,480000 was paid into tho custody of the Court by the Coronission 11 as just compensation for said Tract :No . 48 11 , whereas the record clearly showed at that time that the sum actually paid by the Commission was $6 ,360.00, being the amount of the award as finally adjudicated and set forth in the judgment in rem condemning this tract less the Sh.'Yline Drive strip, to the use of the petitioner:It is considered, adjudged and ordered that said Vernon r . Foltz and Robert W. Keyser, his attorney as herein set forth, should be and they and each of them are required and directed to show cause in writing, filed with the papers of this proceeding, within twenty days from the entry of this order, why an order should not be entered herein directing them and each of them to pay over to the Treasurer of Virginia the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars alleged to have been paid by the said Treasurer to the said Vernon W. Foltz as hereinbefore set out, in excess of the amount to which the said Vernon W. Foltz was entitled on the face of the record as of the day and date of said alleged over-payment. The Clerk of this Court is directed to mail forthwith certified copies of this order to the last post office addresses of the said Vernon W. Foltz and Robert W. Keyser, Attorney at Law, disclosed by the record in this proceeding, or if no such addresses are thus of record, to their last known addresses. } 1 ( l I . / l ./ -2- �11;st i mate of ' the coat of Filling Station 1·or Vernon ii. Foltz. In Park Area near ~lkton, virginia. 30 cu. yas- ~xcavation 33 cu.yds-- Concrete walls & flo ors 484 sq.ft.- 'Top finish @ - .1rraming 4192 f't otairway 3000 ft. - Shea ting & stone siding Sla te coated shingles 14 aqs - Plastering 100 yae. - stucco metal latn 15b » @ B & B Beaded Clg 1261 rt. a uring Flo 725 " ulass 0/8 l b/8 A 2/8 1- Door u o x panel - 2/8 x o/8 2- l)oor 11 11 •• - 2/o x o/b l- Door 4- Winoows- 10/lo 12 Lt l 1/8 B;K 10 b u 11 11 2- oash - 10/x 12 0- ::lash 1- ~arage door ~ - 0 x 6-o Bat. 227 Cornice material 148 lin. t·t. 2 1/2 Crown Iu.Qula - Ceiling B & B 302 ft. 604 ft. 11 By Mims, Speake & Company, Luray, v irgi nia • • ?o - 24. 'Io 280.00 4 2.00 l~.36 83.t;4 lb.00 2.00 00.00 84.00 a.oo o.oo 63 .00 .50 1.00 lbo.00 44.13 0½ 4½ 02.02 10.00 17.00 10.00 8.bO 8.25 29.00 7 .25 b.Oo 10.00 ~.oo 3.00 lo.OU 13.o2 4.44 10. O'/ 21.14 B & B Haraware 300 # nails ln chimney ~rick 810 1'himbles 2 Flasning chimney Counter & Shelving .h: lectric Wiring 120 lin. rt. Base 4.00 12.00 4¢ 24.,jU .30 • ,jQ 1.uo 20.00 40.00 <.1.00 8¢ ) Labor- carpenter 100.00 ,:Pl28? .. 27 Ins. Overhead and Pror it 10% 124. '12 ~1411 ~9 /1 1-ekt J1fh(,.{,/i. 2( Si JJ~1 \p_ p_ ,. 10.7, ?'I- I 21 11,oi.( �t In r o th r n coat o , t tion ror ·il in ,rnon, . oltz . r m , y • e • 4 -... .. 1- • ~or • 76 .oo r l 2. 00 n l~ . 6 tJ . 64 lb . O .oo t.!4 . 00 6f • . o lti6 .uo th l • 'I b • no .oo {}l. ..-;· l i,) •· r ..llnd o,Ja-- ' l 2- .. sh f h tt l/ It • • l . 00 l· • ) 1·i . 6~? . 44 10 . , ., ... 1 . 14 4 . ... b n chin y • I 12 . 00 24 u . .)0 l. • ·u .. o.oo r or- : r·en er . uu loo . oo Jl28? . 2? J.no . OVCl:'h., 0 • �_nt 1 te o oo t o" tb In Park Are n r J Jta ti ,n ror V rnori 1111 n l tz • • ll·ton, Vir :ini • y 1 C l .' 33 OU • yda ~3 OU •Ydtl -- _l<):C l' l"1 ll t"l o r 484 aq . ft .• 4192 rt dt 1 ay ;jQOO t \. 4 -"" 2 . ()( ton 14 q l j6 yde . - 1261 r t. - .u lb 725 1- .uoor 2 ... JJoor l• JJ or 4• ,ind 2- :; sh 3- ua n • 0 - Fl? ,rin • 2/'. :x '/ - 2;· ;x. 6/8 .. 2/ · 6/6 l l th d !l l rdware o · n 810 U. t>O ... o t• ";)U .v l' 44 . 13 M3 . 2 10 . 00 17 . 00 .2 2v .oo .ou 10 . 00 l::, . 0 13 . 62 4 . 44 40 . UU ~. ou 160 . UO f l:28? • 'd? Qf1 t I J4. . 0 6 f .oo lb6 . 00 1.ou / ' l\i# . 36 u;,, ,. ~4. lb . 00 60 , 00 ~(, .oo r r 24 . '10 2,;: 0 .oo 4 . ~t> 12 . 00 ?4 . ;.;u . 30 n chi ney rh ad Iii • 10 . t{I - or- ,; rp .nt :r l any 21 . 14 ilti Br·ck ln . tt - 10/x 12 count r el i, ·' l ctric 1r nc 120 lin . tt . Ens L 10 .ro . 'th1-bl e w1 aah in chime 31 ~/( •• 10/lti 12 Lt l l/P. ., , ,- l O ;) .- 2 1 . 00 4 t 14ft lin . tt . 2 1/2 cro n 302 ft . - u 111ng J 004 'ft . .. ., H 2 . 00 6 . 00 11 1- u r • o or 'I•'> x .!.2 17 UOIUlice ; t 1 l 3 .' .oo 1 O; l,:.,4 . '12 ;,1411.99 �.Estim ate of the cost of cottag e for -vernon w• .l!'oltz . 2 Cottag es like this 12'-0 11 x 20- 1 0 11 in Park Area near Elkton , virgin ia. By Mims, Speake & Company, Luray , virgin ia. 9---- Piers< bExca vation .20 :w l.ti(J 8~HJ-- f t • .1rraming Lumbe r 2.00 1'7. 98 obO- -" Sheat ing 2.00 11.00 600-- " Floor ing 4.bu 27.00 llo-- yds. Plaste r .50 57.60 6---- Sqs. Ho ~fing o.oo Jo.00 04--- lin. ft.Soc ia "()jt 1.92 380-- Brick @ .~Q 11.40 2 ·1·n ir.ab le s .10 .00 l!'lasb. ing 1.00 Porcn Colum ns 3 4 x 4 11 .t>O¢ 1.00 4 Window s 4.t>O 18.00 3 Doors 7.00 21.00 2 t;lose t doors 2.00 4.00 Close t shelve s 1.00 9--- Stone piers .:50¢ 4.ou Elect ric wiring 10.00 ?14-- ft. ttotigh Sicting 0.00 21.42 3-- Locks ( morti ce) .65 l.<Jj 3-- Pr. Butts .20 .60 Loe.ks & l..ifts .oo ? 6 !f Nails t>,rt ::,. ? 0 .N O Painti ng Labor - Carpe nter 00.00 \~14.2 2 Insura nce, Overhe ad &'Pro fit jl.42 ij~4o.o 4 :2 Single Gottag e. /, l. 8'-0° x 12'-0" Excav ation & Found at i on 428-- ft • .J:i'raming Lumbe r 234-- it. Sheati ng I @ 116--! 't • .1rrarni ng for Porch 37 u--:f t. Vall :Board s 2---- -- Windows 8/10 9 Lt. 1---- -- Door @ li.araw are 20ff-- --- .Nails 2.00 2.00 2.00 4¢ 4.00 b.00 Insura nce- Overhe ad & ~rofi t 2 .. 00 s.oo 4.oe 2.~2 15.04 8.00 o.oo 1.00 1.00 120 ....... - Hrick 34--- -- Lin.f t. facia 2t sqs Compo. tloofin g 3o5-- --ft. Siding rtough ~o Paint • Carpe nter- Labor ~· ~ ~.'lb 2.00 ;s.oo .08 5.00 10.96 30.00 :ipY?.'.;t s ':). "l';J ~10'7. 'l'l �. Estima te of the coat of cottage . for Vernon 2 Cottage s like this 12'-0~ x 20-'U" In Park Area near l5 lk ton, Virgini a. w. ~oltz. l3y Mims, :Jpeake & r;ompa.ny, Luray, Virginia .. 9--- ·· Piers4E xcavatio n 899-- ft. naming Lumber 550--" She ting 600--" Ylooring 115-- yde. ?laster 6---~ ~qs. Ro Jfing 64--- 11n. ft.Socia 380-- Brick ~ 2 -- ':thimbles Flashing Porch Columns 3 4 x 4" 4 Hndowa 3 lJoors 2 Closet doors Cloi::et shelves 9--- ::;tone piers Electric wiring 714-- ft. Rough Siding 3-- Locks ( mo tioe) 3-- Pr. Butts Locke & lifts · ?5 # Nails :No Painting .80 2.00 2.00 4.bO .50 6.00 27.00 F,7.50 36.00 ~ft 1.92 11.40 -~O .15 .30 1.00 1.50 .50¢ 1e .oo 4.50 '1 .00 2.00 211-00 4.00 1.00 4.50 • tiOf, 10.00 t 3.00 21.42 .65 . 20 1.95 ~60 .60 ~¢ Labor- Carpent er Insuranc e, overhead ' l.t10 l'l.98 11.00 ~. 7 5 60.00 ~p3l4. 22 & Profit ~l.42 ' 34b. 64 Excavat ion & l!'o ndation 428--ft. i~Blling Lumber 234--ft . Sheating 116--ft. Jrraming for iJ orch 376--f t. Wall Boards 2------ 1-----Hardware Windows 8/10 9 Lt. Door @ 2.00 2.00 2. 00 4¢ 4.00 5.00 Insuranc e- overhead & ~rofit 2.00 8lffi6 4.6e 2.02 15.04 e.oo 3 5.00 1.00 1.00 3. '15 2. 00 3.00 5.00 10.Y5 20//----- Nails 125 ..... - Brick 34----- Lin.ft. facia 2½ sqs Compo. Roofing 365---- ft. Siding hough No Paint c rpente r- Labor ~- .6r 30.UO :islJ?. 98 9 .'79 JlO'l.?? �coat. of 'o Ee tim.:,.te 2 Cott ,ee • • In P rk Ar 9---- iers~~xcnvati~n ·rtuning ll ... b r 8~\i-- ft. Sh~ ting 050 --" Yloorin . 600 -- ~ 'laater • yd 115-- 6---- uqa . Ho.fin 64--- lin. rt.sooia ' 3 o-- ~r1 ok 2 .jo -- 'l'himbles l!l n1n } oroh Uolumn 4 ,1nd owe 3 4 x 4n ,.. .j . :.>0/ 1 . 00 1 .::io 4 ev 1.oc lJoore 2 Oloaet oor Clo t ehelve 9--- ton pi rs l otrio wiring 3 2 . 00 ' ) .oo . Gsc: 3-- Looks ( rnott c ) . 20 3-- Pr . Buth: lif t s Locks '15 Jl N ils · o P inting l!:XCO.V ~ o 1 t· n nci 2 . 00 2 . 00 ting fr 116--:ft. 376--f t. 2-----.. 1-----l10.re1 ar orch rde 3/10 9 t. voor 2: 2.co 4¢ 4 . UJ o.oo ~ 2 . 00 Hu6 .. 4 . 6• ,., . •_.>... 1u.04 .oo b . 00 1 . 00 aqs Compo . Hoo1·1n 2.' 0 365- - --f t. Siding «ouch 0 . 0' No Pint c r pente r- I .hor d 3.?o •0 ~ Lin.ft. f ci Ineure.noe- ov rh .) • 'I 0 1.uo. 20,-. ----- a.11 120 ...... - ~rick 34----- 21 .42 1.~5 .60 x 12' - 0" ing ! umber 234-- t. 4.bO 10100 Profit s· -0 ~ot ta~e . tion 4 .1)0 60 .00 :.114. :.!2 rhead Oy 42e--rt. .o 21.. 0 • 60 'Jft L bor- Carp 11t r Sin l l 1.00 • ~O;'!' 714-- ft. xoul.t,h Bidin g Insur nee , ll.40 . 10 Profit 5 . OtJ 10 . ~t> �A. C. CARSON ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLO R-AT-LAW RIVERTON , VIRGINIA November 10, 1938 Mr. J. Robert Switzer , Clerk Circuit Court of Rockingh am County Harrison burg, Virginia Order to show cause in claim of Treasur er of Virginia for refund against Messrs. Keyser and Foltz. Dear Sir: Be good enough to furnish me with copy of response of defenda nts to the order to show cause why they should not make refund in Park Condemn ation Case of over-pay ment claimed by Treasur er of Virgini a, and to send bill for services direct to Colonel Richard A. Gilliam , Executiv e Secretar y and Treasur er, Virgini a Conserv ation Commiss ion, Richmon d, Virgini a, togethe r with the enclosed signed carbon copy of this letter which will serve as voucher and authorit y for the renderin g of this service . Yours truly, A.C~~sel, Virginia Conserv ation Commiss ion. ACC:VCT �'- IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF R OCKINGH.AN COUNrY, VA. ST.ATE cm,:lMISSION ON CONSBRVATION AND DEVELOPMENI' OF THE STATE OF VIRGINI filed in the Clerk's Office Rockingham County, Va, StP Jo ·l~.10 vs CASSANDR LAWSON ADKINS and others and 52,561 acres of land, more or less. ~~Clerk ~;J-<-(o/~ ANS\IER f/l4/5 '/ - ff~//. For answer as required by a decree entered in the Circuit Court of Rockingham County on September 10, 1938 in the above matter requiring Vernon W. Fultz and Robert w. Keyser to show cause in writing within twenty days from the entry of said decree why an order should not be entered, directing them and each of them to pay over to the Treasurer of Virginia the sum of One Hundred Twenty Dollars ($120.00) alleged to have been paid by the Treasurer to the said Vernon W. Fultz in excess of the amount to which the said Vernon W. Fultz was entitled on the face of the records in the above entitled matter as set out in said decree. The said Vernon • Fultz and Robert W. Keyser do answer, jointly and severally, and say: That: 1. The report of the Appraisal Commission filed in the above matter shows that there was allowed for the strip of land deeded to the State Conservation Commission for the use of the Skyline Drive One Hundred Twenty Dollars (~120.00) and that the award for the residue of the land taken from the said Vernon I. Fultz was Four Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Dollars {$4880.00). 2. That it i s ~ out in said decree that the said Vernon f . Fultz did deed to the Sta te Conservation Commission 75 �2. fo r the co ns tru cti on of the a str ip of lan d to be use d lla rs of Two Hu nd red Ni ne ty- Six Do Sk pli ne Dr ive fo r the sum th at sa id sum of Two Ru nd red ($2 96 .00 ) an d the rei n ag ree ard , de du cte d fro m the fin al aw Ni ne ty- Six Do lla rs sh ou ld be in th is ma tte r. or fin al jud gm en t, en ter ed Ro be rt w. Ke yse r Th e sa id Ve rno n W. Fu ltz and ta l mi t to the Co urt th at the to do the ref or e re sp ec tfu lly sub fo r the ing the str ip of lan d tak en am oun t of the aw ard , inc lud 0) Fiv e Th ou san d Do lla rs ($5 ,00 Sk yli ne Dr ive pu rpo ses , ma kes sum of clo se , sh ou ld be add ed the to wh ich , as the rec or ds dis W. 60 0.0 0) all ow ed sa id Ve rno n Six tee n Hu nd red Do lla rs ($1 iss ion er' s re po rt, ma kin g mm Co id sa to ed fil s on pti Fu ltz on ex ce and Hu nd red Do lla rs ($6 60 0.0 0), . a to ta l~ ar d of Si xty Si xty ~.~ ($2 ~•. oo } red nd Hu o Tw af ter de du cti ng the sum of Ve rno n W. Fu ltz fo r sa id id sa the by ed eiv rec nt ou be ing the am ce of Si xty Th ree Hu nd red lan ba a s ve lea it , ip str Sk yli ne Dr ive W. am oun t pa id to sa id Ve rno n the ), .00 04 63 {$ rs lla Do and Fo ur Vi rg ini a. Fu ltz fro m the Tr ea su rer of e n of the rec ord in the ab ov tio ina am ex an m fro at Th 3. id of lan d be lon gin g to the sa ma tte r re lat iv e to the tra ct the at a jud gm ent wa s en ter ed on Ve rno n W. Fu ltz , we fin d th de r en ter ed , the re was to or an by at th and , ard aw t abo ve se t ou lla rs Hu nd red and Se ve nty -S ix Do be de du cte d the sum of One Stxtf-Four Dr ive st rip . ($1 76 .00 ) fo r sa id Sk yli ne Co urt th at af ter de du cti ng the to t mi sub y ull ctf pe We res en ter ed on th is aw ard and on ent gm jud the m fro .00 76 $1 the sai d lan ce of Si xty Th ree Hu nd red ba a s ve lea it at th s on pti the ex ce the am oun t pa id to the sai d and Fo ur Do lla rs ($6 30 4.0 0) t :fu rth er say t o the Co urt tha Ve rno n V. Fu ltz . We wo uld the Sk yli ne Dr ive str ip by r fo ed ow all .00 20 $1 the ap pa ren tly the sum of $2 i6. oo , he nc e m fro d cte du de s wa ers ion sa id Co mm iss ing a de du cti on fro m sa id ow all urt Co the by ed ter en the ord er aw ard of $1 76 .00 . �3. Therefore , the said Vernon l . Fultz and Robert Keyser ~3X • answer to said decree by saying that the records do not disclose any error or any over payment to the said Vernon l. Fultz and that the Treasurer of Virginia is not entitled to any refund from the said Vernon W. Fultz. Respectfully subnitted, . 77 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fultz, Vernon - Hinckle, J.W. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context fultz-vernon.pdf Title A name given to the resource Fultz, Vernon Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Dean Mountain Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 48 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Fultz https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/4f8db4dfd49c1fd1e521f46989ad46c0.pdf 6dc8d716f1d64ab5e111941c990cce20 PDF Text Text ITCT NAME OF -0{/AfM'iN.rr OWNER #109 - Fogle , Earl Number of Acres: c. --- -- 2 Location: Swift Run on park l i ne ; Entirely 3 chains of Position 83 . within the park area . Roads: SpotsV1ood 'trail , hard surface, one and one - half miles to Elkton, nearest shipping point . Soil: Sandy loam, slope type . History of Tract and condition of timber: All cleared, and j@~ns the Spotswood Trail . IMPROVEiv1ENTS :-- DWELLING-- -Frame , 14x26 1 , 2 rooms , porch 7xl6 1 , metal roof, rooms ceiled, cellar 12x20 1 , solid foundationL 1 storyi brick flues good condition, occup i ed by owner .----- COAL ttOUSE----Bram e, 8xl3x8 ', metal roof , good conditimn . - ----HEN HOUSE- --- 8xl6x8 1 , f r ame , P~.12.~~-J'...'~[ 1_ fair condition . GARAGE-- ----Frame , 14xl6x8 1 , metal roof , ~ ~ good c ondi ti on . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: -- -- - 2 @ $50 . 00 ,wl00 . 00 Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land : $ 100 . 00 610 . 00 $710 . 00 __ _ Value of Improvements: $ 610 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ 355 . 00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE ----~- ~_CLERK I, �County: Rockingham District: 3tone~all 11I ' t 10 9'!. ___..;;o...g:.;;;l;.;;;e..1.,......;~;;;;;.;;;.r_l___C..;.• - 1-131 Assessed .t;.Creage Claimed: Deed: II Value Claimed: Loe tion: Swi f t Run on park l ine; 3 chai ns of Positions 83. 1ntire l y Nith1n the p rk urea. Inoumb r ances, counter claims or laps: -· 'hoads: Soil• None known. Sandy loam, s l oe type. Spotswood '. rail, hard surface, one a n (l one-half miles to Elkton, nearest shippi ng point. History of tract 1nd condition of timber: a ll cleared a nd joins The Spotswood •rrail. Improvements: Dwelling: Frame 14x26', 2 rooms, porch 7:xl6', metal roof, rooms oeile~, oelL.l r l2X ~o•, solid f o . mda ·t i m, 1 story, 600.00 brick fl es, good conditi on, occupied by owner --Coal house: "3'rame 6xl3x8' , meta .L r oo f, good 40 .00 O)"l._.iti -:> n -- Hen house: 8xl6x8', frame, paper roof, fair cond ition --Garage: Frame 14xl6x8', meta l ro of, goo d conditi onVa lue of l a nd by types: Type Tillable cre ,ge Value per acre ?d.oo 2 Tota l v lue of l a nd l 50.00 '? .). 0 0 ?95.0<5 Total Value ' 00.00 ~150.00 Tota l va lue of impr ovements 7g5.oo Total va lue of ~raot 945.00 Average value per acre 472.50 \2 �I ' County : Distri ct: Rocking ham Stonew all jl09 - Fogle, Earl C. N LEG EH: : Tillab le Scale - 1 11 = 20 chains 55'-/ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Dean, S.A.- Fogle, Earl C. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context fogle-earl-c.pdf Title A name given to the resource Fogle, Earl C. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Swift Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 109 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Fogle https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/e187da7693a89bf451d4fd2ce25599a4.pdf 36e9b16b2015581e861fe879a14103cc PDF Text Text NAME OF CLAIMANT J2?0 - 2inke , r . ~- Number of Acres: 338 Location: Roads: Soil: ::?our niles viu dirt ship9i. 1-· _poi.nt. 1 oe.e1 1 to Port Republic , the nearest ,. .:A .dy lot..m, ·slo11e t"r,e . '.:.'·w ti 11 b:'...e 1-nd on t:1is trc;..ct i · o,:' u f-l 1.r de :-1t:1 ~nd fFn·tility . History of Tract and condition of timber: T'1e .1erchant G.ble s=:.. .; ti .bar l1ua been re~ov::Jd . T'.a rffc. .. i.11in· stenJ. CO'L::ist& o ... ~r::.11 o~.ks U'1d ~w1 o:r ... ire . s'1ort l.:;::i.f ...:>ine . . ~.11 t"i -~ber h:...s b e:::1 d 6 4 cords __bout ._,,, c;ords •ood .::,er acr, on-327 c.cres . .wod . 1.t·1 5 1·ooms , ·_nd tuo .::iorchi:;s Improvements: T7r~ •. a elli'1"'. : -3x3(P , 8x34' d~1 x9', h~n-1~ roof, brick flues , 1 story in heic;~1t, 5 rooms pl~stered , poor eonrli ti on , OC(;Upied by t 3n-nt , w~ ter sup)l: L ., .,prL,, · , oli "0U11lla _,l on . ~r -~ b~rn : 16 20 ', ho· rd roo~ , poor conJi•ion . 4x9 ', m9t:1l .,,,oo..." , "f...i.i r condition. Fr...;.mc stor roo, : :0 fr1it trees, p~0r ~0,.L i.on . Acreage and value of types: Types Value per acre Acreage Total Value Ridge: Slope: 3~7 \'..!! ,. 1308 . 00 ~4 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: II )- .!J ,. 27.5 . 00 '11'1583 . 00 Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 1583 . 00 ?45 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 14.) . 00 Value of Orchard: $ .50 . 0 0 30 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ 50 . uO Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ :SO . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 7 • l e Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ ;r)'10 ~ �~\ / . Beulah .1!1 • Horn, Je_~sie Finke , ll-ilbert .l1'inke , Stanley Claim oL __Finke-,--hefrs- _..a.-t law- -o-'.f -.J--.--A-.-- F-i-:ak-e-,--dee-e-a aed-.----------- -----In the Circuit Court oL_lio.o~1p._g:g .~----- ______ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. ___..A.tk.UJJL et _al ___________________ ---------------- ---------------- ------_ more or less, of land in ___~~~-1~J~~--- -- _______ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order ~ the Circuit Court oLJ:toak1ng_l!e.!JL __________ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice . . Beulah .I!' . Horn , Jessie Finke , Gilbert .l!'irike, Stanley My name is_ "Ftnk.e , ·- he'trs at"--l aw- -of--J .-* .---F-:i:nk-e,--d.ee-ea-s-ed..-------My post office address is __________ ~J,.@!'_Jl_,__y~-~-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ __ .AQO____ _______ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: ______________________________________ _____________________ _ • This land is located about_ ____l¼. ____ miles from ___ ~~~Q~-------- --------- Virginia, in the...Stonewall- --Magisterial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) ________________ Fee_ Simple_ 111 tle ----------------- ---------------- ---------------- --The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North ___ ___ ____ ____ __ ______ ___ _______ _____________________________________________ _ South ___ ·- --- - --- - - -- ---------------- --- - ------- ---------------- ---------------- --East ____ __Jo.hnO.._}Vheat,._ formerly J . _ .M. _Alexander ____________________ _ West ____ __ J._-A._...Ale.xande.r. _______________________________ _____________________ _ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year __ l.~~~---in the following manner: ------BY de.a.d_Jlf_.Q.at....__2.5....__l._92"1 from ~os . _H. _ Nelson and _Curry Carter, --- - --Trusteea.. - ------------ - ----------- - ---------------- -------- - -- - -------------- - -- I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $..6.,.0.0.0 • .0.Q _____ . I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $--------------- -· I am the owner of_ _______________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $--------------- ---· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks· ___ _Thispropert1 _ was acquired through_ foreclosure _pro - __ _ -ce.ed.inga. __ Wb1J,. __tha..ac..tua.l.._p.iu:ch.e.s§t___p~j._q~--~:t; __t~!'__~9-~~.91.~!i~~~--'-!~~--f2-iOOG ..OO,--the--amou nt--~-the.-.pur. chasa-money.._lien..._on..._th.e_J)r_~AtY__ _ -was--:tor-"4,0 2-&.52-.------- ----------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------------------- ---------------- ------ ------ (Continue remarks if necessary on ,121-e back). Witness my signature (or my name a~ark attached hereto) this _____ ~_-:= ____ day oL _____~-----------, 193/ I~ ' ~ '~ · ~-~'1:;-1:vJ~r ~ -Q_J._~ STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF __ ~eul1:r~ ~-- ~s'sT@-~inke Gilbert The undersigned hereby certifies that-5-~~E:'~ }~i~~~g.A_h.~!E~_!_~_J_~~--~f the above named claimant personally appeare a before-him and made o~th that the matters an_d things ap~aring in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, th1•--------'t~ -----day o L _ ~ - - ~ _B. ~ ___ _ Clerk o~the "\;our\_ or~pec~l Investigator or otary Publi~ or J'Nsti~ • ~ of t~Peace. , ..a.-, .,-~ 6.. . ,._, r - •""'- ~ \jrl" I \f~ t,U..A> ol �NAME OF CLAIMANT u 2?0 -I -- r. A• Fink - w p on U. B:..J.i l ey. Number of Acres: :~9 Location: l?on· nilt"•s vi Roads: 1 dirt roac~ to 0:..J.ndy clJ.y loc..m . Soil: ort Repnb l ie . S l ope tyrie oi' ~ fL.ir c.te_it'. 1nr1 _ rtility . ;.:o 'er-te slopes un.:. f.Jirly sriooth . History of Tract and condition of timber: ..,, ,8 rvm.oved fro,1 t:1 : s tr-cc . over re:,e i.tedly . Y:n·c.; h:...n tc! ble sa r t 1·- b ,r '1u s been ·- )' l't o" tr&ct rH. . s bee'1 burned Improvements: No :-ie . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: .. 143 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 1 4:J . 00 Value of Improvements: $ ':::ot~l -- :,1,15 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ .5 . 0 0 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ : "' '1"". i, �NAME OF CLAIMANT ,/270- I -- .., . , .._ .: l.1.1K, v L:....p_ on • ~ J • .n.. ,, - • Location.: Lewis Run . Roads: Soil: _._,ntir 1ly .Ieard I Number of Acres: 66 i thin the P~r'-: ...•.rea. :1r13e and 01u-hul.!.' :j_les vii:. c..irt rout: to Port Je!)'lblic • .:;:..nd nu cl :r lo· r_ on Q f<.1-'.l' uept1 . ::od.et::i.te slopes · n ti~ly sr10.)"!;h . Il( -"'P,rtili-':;:; . History of Tract and condition of timber: C1'1is tro.ct ,ms. cut ,-;ver :ret:1rs . . , ·o . Li ·1t c~ 1u of , 1 :3rc.,0.n tt.1.'ule so.w t inber lo !Si st s of mixed ~l'1i te & •1" c:1estnu"t o:.1ks · Ii th & s.i. . . 11 ar1,unt of y0llou pine . J.:..OOU.t 5:.5 ::. bd. ft. Sc- tinber. Improvements: Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: -, '~o 3GO . OO 11 7.00 77 . 00 3 20 . 00 uO . vU Slope: .)..., Cove: . r- .-1- .J . \.) Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $39? . 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ .50 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value or" Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ :zo 2 . 00 Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ £ • 83 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ ,,.- .:... jQ . 00 02 . 00 "'"-40 ''O \t'V -... • V �NAME OF CLAIMANT L.-,70 r- . . :C'i nk, J. .,,. . , , ..., Roads: Soil: .J...L - L 9 on ~o]hronia !~rris. Number of Acres: 3 Location: - : ec:c , un . .....,ntir.Jl · ,.i thin the P:.rk :...rAt... . i.hr ~e mi le s vi-..t cl irt road ":; o ... ort s·.ippin,..,. point . ~ epublic, t'1 i:1dy cl: y lo~r: of' a f_ti r d 1_itl: c..nc":. fertili t~ 0 , ne~trest r.:tol10r1.,te Elo~es und f_irly smoot~ . 7 7 sa11 ti"': er La:;; been r ;;:-,o·:ecl History of Tract and condition of timber: fr '· ' t · i s ~ r . ct , re~ in[ st .n: consist o:' sm. . 11 o~.ks _,.bout 2 core.ls o.,.. 1':.i.el;;ood per c.I l so 3 s:-:ort le 1 .9 ne . - .. ~..1.... ~ere. Improvements: Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 5 r" - 00 i(5 . 00 •.• ~t.) . Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ '25 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ ;j • 00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ ~,.. 1 ~ • ,,-- ' r- ".J .J,.,...L._J.,.. --- �L -~::: .~;:====~ -=====--------- :GIL:1.: ... CO-C-:~Y NAME OF CLAIMANT 1/ :") Number of Acres: :~'30k Run . Location: . ') 7 0 -IV - F ink: , .. ,. • ..c~. ,f..., 011 :::ucln,rd · ·orri:.; . L .,.,ntirely 1i thin t!1F~ P'l""'k are::. . ort Republi l, , the '1ear r;t Roads: ':'hree rrii le., vL.. . Ji rt roc.:.d to sLi _)p:r.. · point . Soil: ,.,ndy clJ..1 lo m., slope t:'pe of ma.der-te s l opes . History of Tract and condition of timber: ,.::_ ,n) • t l'~ir e;;,t 1 ~ , ferti li L: , ~11 s~1 ti.~er renoved -bo~t t,o l cord 10oa . -- _)e"' c..cre - Improvements: Acreage and value of types : Acreage Types Total Value Value per acre Ridge: Slope: 1/S :3 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land : $ ~ • ;:- o :1ot~ 1 ;2 . 30 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard : $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ ..; • 00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ 1'1 1e • �OoW1ty: • ckingh Di tric t : '270 J. A. ! r ~ As eased d: ct.ti on: 400 tt ewis & Neck l\uns. Deed 490 . '""Iltil"el y ;; ua.do : t o:l: 1, • ••• n iley lap on th :i.s t r act . rea. orris, Richard 4 mil es· Tia dirt road to ~ort J.1ep•1b ic, the nearest Sandy loam. Slo')o ty e . depth end fertility . 400 No f ield she t " itbin the Park The tract bel onR'n• to 1. ~ - Heard , no hronia ~orris , and Stone al l hipping point . The tillabl e l e nd on this t r act is of a f air The m~rch ntable saw timber hus be n removed. Th re ining stand consi ~so:. all o s :i.~u short le~f ~ine. . l timber ho. b on d aaged by fire . bo t two cords .,.ood ')er e:re o 327 cres. 654 cor 3 ood t _, er ed . 163.50 mprov .ents: a~ 6 ft. 1th o roo und 2 porchus 8 x 24 '3h1 .p.,).e root . 1rick tluon . l story in height. 5 roo s ~l tered. >oor condition. Occupied by tenant • .. ntter supply i s )rin~ , oliu !'ow dation 500 ~r e barn 16 x 20ft . Bo rd roof . oor condi ion 40 e tor roo.:i, 4 x 9ft . et root. F {r cond. v lue e deli and O x 9ft . inc lJded in pric e of dwelling 2G fruit tree . o~r condition, 1. 00 ) r t e 28 8 . 00 ve.lue o-r land b>: ty es ; Value .Acreage slope tillable per aci·~ ~27 · 3 . 00 11 20. 00 338 Tot l v ,lue or land Total value or ti ,bcr Tottl va.luo or ir prove ents Total valu of tract v ase vul ue pur acr 1 201 . o~ lCv. GO 560. 0 l 1932. 50 5. 72 Total vdu e . 981 . 00 220 . 00 1201.00 �County: Roc1~in _1 m ~istri ct : Stan~~ 11 N > 0 ....)' (! ~ ' ". ')...-"o-'-l. ~ -1.-.;-. ; ' j • =• .,,ink h:G 41.:) Slorie Sc le - 1 ' = ..,(J c. u i 1s �. County: District : Rockingham Stonewall #270 - Finke , J . A. N J . A. Alexander \V . H. Bailey ~ ( I I ,, ,, ---'' :z 'l'o ./' ' ~ ?"o ~ ' ' I I J . A. Alexander "' I -<";i,.' ~ o J . A. Alexander LEGEND: Slope Tillable Scale - 1" = 20 chains 37 �• - County: District: Lap on \.' ._ 1 T. Bailey /!270 - I - J . A.Fink N ,__I I J . LJ r:,. -· • .PJ.llk I LEGEND: Slone Scale : 1 11 = 20 chains Rockingham Stonewall �.. ~ County: District: Rockingham Stonewall _f/270 - II - J . A. Fink Lap on J . T . Hoard N •H . Bailey ·., . ' LID END: Cove SloPe Tilll:l ble 20 chains Scale - 1 11 = :3'bl �• j3?0 ITI - J . .,_ . ~ink - U..p on .Jophro1ia. orJ'is. Co mt~, : Jockingl am :>istric1, : -::tone~mll N L ~G:~rD Slo Je SCic.ile - l" - 20 chains �- County: Rockingham District: 3t.onewsl.l f 270-! J • • Fink lap on Ac5ea~e Claitled: Assessed Value Claimed: Location: D ed tt Le is ~..m.. ~ntirely • H. Baily " ithin the P rk area. ~~- The calls and descripti ons of the surveys ,1"ailey cover this are • .§ill: Sandy clay loom. Slope ty:pe of a f'air depth and 1'ertil1 ty. slopes d fairly smooth. oade: History: 4 miles via dirt road.to or both J. A. Fink nnd \'. Ii. HodarAte ort Hepublic The merehe.nta ble saw timber has been removed tro1 this tract. part or tract h s been burned over repeatedl y. Improvem ents: None Value of' land by ty:,es: .!n! slope Total vnlue of land Total value or trnot Average per acre VJ\lUe Acreage per acre :t3.oo 29 · 87.00 8'1.00 3.00 Total value f-87.00 �- Ci County: Rockingha~ Distri ct : (;ton.ewall J . A. Fink l np on J. T. 27011 ., " Velue Claimed: Location: Deed Assessed Acreage Clained: ~ewis ~un. Her d Entirely within the Prrk area. Leps: The calls and descriptions or the surveys of both J. A. Fink and J. T. Heard cover this area. ~: Sand end clny loam of :f'air depth ond fert111 ty. t!oderate slopes and fairly smooth. I.onds: 3 1/2 miles via dirt roRd to l"ort Republic. 1istory: 'l'his troct was c t over years e~o. Light stand ot r1e:rohant ble saw timber consists of mixed, white and chestnut oaKs with n small amount of yellow pine. About 55H bd.ft . aaw timber 1, !"'''-.50 '1er H bd.ft. '"·202 . 50 Improvements: 18 ~~ple trees. Value of lsnd by trees: Vo.lue ~ COVE.' slope tillable per acre l 5.00 Acreage ll A-35.00 Good condition O .2.00 each 3 . 00 25.00 52 3 Total value "'55 . 00 155. 00 75 . 00 286 . 00 66 Total value of lAnd 'l'otal value ot improvements 'l'otal value of tiznber Total value of tract Average value pe~ acre 286 . 00 36.00 202.hO 524.50 7.95 _I �I county: nockingha~ District: s tonewall //270 III - Acreage ¢laimed: J. I\ . Fink lnp on Sophronia. 1~orris ssesoed Value Cle.inec: Location: Deed " eek Run . ff Entirely within the l ark aren. lamr lnoumbrances , counter claims or The calls and description of the surveys of both J. \ . 11 1 and :::ophronia !'orris cover» this traot • .§2.ll.: 1andy clay loam of a fair de nth and fertility, moderate slo1es and fairly smooth. Roads: 3 miles via dirt road to I'ort Republic , t he nearest nhippine point . 1istor1 of tro.cit amd e-ondi tion of timber: All saw. timber has been removed from this raot, remaining stand consist of smnll oaks and somo shor t leaf pine . About 2 eds. of fuel wood per acre. 10 cords wood 'J 50¢ ~·--~-----------~---- ~5.00 Improvements: --Value of land b:y: types: Type Slope Acreage 5 Total value of land Value per nore ~3 .00 Total Value ; 15.00 ~15.00 Total value of improvements Total value of timber 'i'o tal value of tract Average value per acre 5.00 20 .00 4.00 • 2'lS- �\I cou nty: Rocklneham Dis trlo t: stonewc.11 ,' 270 IV ' creo.ge Clai med : • soe s sed Val ue Clai med : Loc atio n: J . A. ::?ink lap on Rich ard I'or: t'in Dee d fl C N e}l Run . Ent irel y wit hin the I ark are a . Inoumbro.nc es, cou nte r clai ms or ,lap s: The ls and des crip tion s oft the surv eys of both J. 1-i. . Fin k o.ndcal Richard Mo rris cov er this trac t. San dy clay loam , slop e typ e, of a fai r dep Soi l: th and fer tili ty. mod erat e slop es . Roads : 3 mil es via dir t road to :ror t Rep ubli e, the nea res t shipping poi nt. Hist ory of tra ct and oon di tion of tim ber: sai:1 tim ber rem oved abo ut 2 eds . of fue l wood per ucr c . All l cord wood ~ 50¢ 50¢ Improvemen ts: :Non o. Val ue of land by tyP es: Typ e Slo pe Acre age .X. 2 Tot al valu e of land Val ue per o.ore ':3 .oo $1.5 0 Tot al valu e of i 1 ,provemen ts Tot al valu e of tim ber .50 Tot al valu e of trac t 2.00 Ave rage value per aero 4.00 Tot al Val ue 'J.!.50 �FURMAN B. WHITESCA RVER ATTORN EY·AT·LA W COURT HOUSE BUILDIN(; SALEM, VIRGINIA ~e cember ? , 1931 . Clerk of Circui t Court , Harriso nburg, Virgin ia . Dear Sir: I am inclosi ng herewi th a claim of Beulah Finke Horn and others , heirs at law of J . A. Finke , deceas ed, in the matter of State Commis sion , etc. v . Atkin , et als , n ow pending in your court. This is marked c laim number one, which I am filing in duplic ate , and pertain s to a tract of 400 acres of land in your c oun t y . I am also inclosi ng herewi th claim from Beulah F. Horn and others as heirs at law of J . A. Finke , deceas ed , marked claim number two, which pertain s to a one -half undivid ed intere st in a tract of 50 acres of l and in your county . I am also filing herewi th claim of A. J • .3urrows as t o one-ha lf intere st in said tract of 50 acres . If it is necess ary and custom ar y that an order be entere d filing these claims , would you be kind enough to prepare this order , or else notify me so that I may prepare the same. Very truly yours , FBW:ER INCS. �'Y Y' / . - • t a nl e y lf'inke, Beulah F . Horn, Jess,ie F inke,. Gilbe rt Finke, ::5---------------------;-----ae1raeu -,--d-er -Ftrrke .-~.Lt;\':>r'\j iavt · Claim oLneY rs--atAt Law. In the Circuit Court of_ __,RQ.9Jtip._g}J.~ ___________ County, Virgini a, No.________, , PetiThe State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- --tioner, vs._______ ..Atk:i,ne more or less, of land in __ ...no.akingham _____ _______ County, Virgini a, Defend ants. and Deation The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conserv awarded nation condem of notice the to velopment of the State of Virginia,. and in respons e Circuit the of order the with nce accorda in d upon the filing of said petition and publishe file this Court oL __ijQ.9~~ !1.&~~ -------- -- County, Virgini a, asks leave of the Court to . notice as his answer to said _petition and to said ley . Beulah . F. Horn , J e s s i e lf1 i nke, Gil bert F i nke, 3tan---se-d---Deuean:ke-,-A-.--Fi lWY name is ___Finke ; h e'irs ' a t'--law- o:f-i-.-My post office address is------ -----~~ ~~~~-- -~! _______________________________ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought g to be condemned, contain ing about_ __ J!!i~ - _______ acres, on which there are the followin _ ___ buildings and improve ments: ________________________________________________________ · ·· m od ______ ___ __ v·1rg1ma, __ _______ P- -----m1·1es f rom____ __ ___Lynwo · 1ocat ed a b out ---~--· 1an d 1s Tl11s the_-.S1:.9A~!f~iJ___ Magiste tial District of said County. of land deI claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel joint owner, or scribed above: (In this space claiman t should say whethe r he is sole owner or owner, joint sole not and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claiman t is or tract the to or in has he he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest parcel of land described above.) ___ _ona~l) alf_Jll ldi.vid ed__fe.e__ s.impljt __t_tt.1..~ .. __t.:g.~__Q.!;AQ!"__Q!l~-~~~-i~--~!f!l~_g.___ _ --- ----by A.-..J. . _..J3UX J:OWS --------- --------- -------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------The land owners adjacen t to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follows: __ North ___ __ ____________ __ _______________ _________ ___ ________ _____ _______ ______ ____ __ South _______ ______ ___ ___ ____ ____ ______ __ _______ ____ __________ ____________________ East __________________________________________ . ------- ------- ------- ------- ------_ _ _______ _______ _______ West_____________________ ___________________________________ __in the I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this propert y about the year__ ______ • ollowing manner : I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improve ments thereinterest , on is $_1._QO.!hO.Q. __ __ . I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or _____ , in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improve ments thereon is $____509_~Q.O or I am the owner oL ___ _______ ____ _acres of land adjoinin g the above described tract prothe by d damage be will claim parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I -----· osed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $------ ------informa tion as to (In the space below should be set out any addition al stateme nts or here a this claim which claiman t desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert . description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds) Remark s· _____ ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------ ------- ------- ------- ------ ). ------- ------- ------- --- - - ------- ------- - - -- (Continue remark s if necessa ry on theJack ay Witness my signatu re (or my name an~ markcf!.tm he.d hereto) this __ _______.J::'",::--~_d W ~ J .1<-£ iw~--1-P?~-~ ~~ of_ ____ ~---- ----- , 193/. ~ • ~ · ~~-"':7l_1:__}_ J e·Ers iio-J1trtke , Lr ilbert STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY· OF__ _Be1fl:~ The undersi gned hereby certifies that_F_:ll'..!K_e_;:"_,_s_t~n..l ey_..._,!!ink.e_.... _h.eli:t_s_ _at__l .aw:~matters the above named claiman tSpersonally appeare d before him and made oath thatgethe belief, and knowled his of and things app~ng in his. above answer are true to the best � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Dean, S.A.- Fogle, Earl C. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context finke-j-a.pdf Title A name given to the resource Finke, J. A. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Lewis and Neck Runs Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 270, 270-I, 270-II, 270-III, 270-IV Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Finke https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/2858d5aa6c1cdb5d464091b217a36d6f.pdf 48d6764721f3555ad11ffa55ac627c92 PDF Text Text NAME OF CLAIMANT #168 ~ Fern Hill u. B. Church Number of Acres: Lot . Location: Swift Run Gap . Eight miles over Spotswood Trail To Elkton . Roads: Soil: History of Tract and condition of timber: Church Lot . Church 30x40', frame, cement foundation, porch 6x6', l½ story, paper roof, 1 room , ceiled, built 10 years agu . Improvements: Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals : _____________ Value of Land: $ 100 . 00 $ 1100 . 0 0 Value of Improvements: ..,,.... Value of Orchard: $ $1200 • 00 Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ ValueofWood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE. i¾. ~ 'cLERK. (5 �/_ Coun y: District: ,,lo -."'.>c ·1 a StonewLll • Church. ~-sses ed: lot d: ion: •t , S 1 t rnc od: :n.mto r ol l,ms or las,: .,.one knon . - ~Soi l: i ght r l ov r · t tract story, _p 1 er r or, , 1000.uO 1 oludl or lane c,;...mrnt i, l room 1 \.:lhU oh <J O ' t1nd·t1on. orch 6xO •, 1 ... 11 d, built lO yr nrs ;o tor lot . X ty , ,s: j or . e or lkto . Church lot . Churob 3 x40' , frl a l.to ~,11 to 100d Vl e ;eor aor, 0 ot 1 v le improve· ents 1000. 00 ot l v l trot 100 lue .oo 72 �NOTE-This need not be filed until the record discloses that the awards have been paid into the custody of the Courts. Virginia: In the Circuit Court of Rockingham County The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia .. PETITIONER. V. At Law No. 1829 Cassandra Lawson ..(\.tkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of land, more or less DEFENDANTS. Comes now the undersigned and shows to the Court: That a judgment in rem has heretofore been entered in this proceeding condemning to the use of the Petitioner the fee simple estate in the tract( s) of land numbered as follows: Tract No. __rg_a ______ : . Tract No. ____________ : Tract No. ------------; and described in the report 0£ the Board of Appraisal Commissioners appointed herein and shown, numbered, and delineated on the County Ownership Map filed therewith, upon payment into the custody of the Court of the sum(s) set out in the said judgment as constituting the award(s) therefor, as follows: Award on Tract No. __ J_~s_3____ $_~?_QQ____ ; on Tract No. ____________ $ __________ ; on Tract No. ------------ $----------; That the report of the said Board sets forth that the following named persons claim, or appear to have a claim to an interest in the said tract(s) of land o,r in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof; Fern Hi,11 Uni te,rethern Church in Christ I That the Petitioner has paid into the custody of the Court the said sum(s) set out in said judgment as constituting the award(s) for the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) of land; That your undersigned, on the date of the said judgment in rem condemning the said tract(s) of land, owned or was (were) entitled to the following interest in the said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof:- - Fee Simple That no other person or persons than the undersigned are entitled to share in the distribution of the said award(s) except the following named persons whose interest in said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof on the date of entry of said judgment was as follows: Wherefore, your undersigned pray(s) that [he (they) be made a party (parties) herein under the provisions of Section 21 of the Public Park Condemnation Act, and that] an order be entered for the distribution of said sum(s) set forth in said judgment in rem as constituting the award(s) for the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) condemned as aforesaid, and for the payment to the undersigned of the said award(s) or of as much thereof as the Court may find that the undersigned is (are) entitled to receive, and which the undersigned aver(s) is as follows: Tract No. __I .6_8 ______ $_L2D_Q___ : Tract No. ____________ $ __________ : Tract No. ____________ $ __________ ; The undersigned further aver ( s) that: (Leave this space blank vnless there is some other pertinent ~tter to be brought sRecialb J;o the attentio~ of the com·t) 11 'l'hi~. propdertv l).as Ot'?e n 11 . UbS'?d cont inuous~y since 1~s r ounu1ng as a uouse 01 florsn1p an 1t 1s s 1 e1ng so used . The congregation hopes to continue to use it in the same manner if permitted by the Government to do so . NAME y f - ~--~-~-------___ /a__; ~fl-1___(!__~-------,;;:,_a..,_,_~---------------See verification of the other side . NOTE-A supply of this blank form has been placed in the Clerk's office for the convenience of interested parties. No one is required to use this form, as the form is not prescribed by law, and claimants can either change or modify it as they deem necessary, or present their motions in any form they may desire which meets with the approval of the Court. This blank form may not and probably will not cover all cases. It has been printeci merely as a suggestion of a form of a motion which may be used, subject to the approval of the court in each case. 8 �State of Virginia , City of Harrisonburg , to - wit: a# ~ This day personally appeared before me J . ILHaney , Trustees of the Ferr-ii ':.H i~rD United Brethern Church and in Christ and made oath that the state~ents contained in the afore said petition so far as made on their own informa tion are true and so far as maje on the information of others they believe it to be 1934. true . Given under my hand this /..Z.,. day of ,k'l.___'Y - - _..._.~ : ! ) " ~ ~ - - - Notary Public . ~~·f:. Y ~ h "'°//.$:rl of Virginia , State City of Harrisonburg , to- wit: This day personally appeared before me J . A. Baney a trustee of the Fern Hill -ii.-nited Berthern Church in Christ and made oath tat the statements contained in the aforesaid petition so far as made on bis·own information are true and so far as made on the information of others be believes it to be true . Gi ven under my .day of June , 1934. My commission expires the hand t 'l is 0 193{. t:6" day ;.3&. oh -~ otary -1 . .c ubli c. �;f;£!.. In the Circuit Court of Rol.,::i1'}c;ha1:1 County , Vir~inia . State ~ommission on vonservation e~d -:evolop:.:er:t of' tne St8. te of Vir.:::_inia , v• At Law ~· o • I 8 2 9 • C2.ssal-&a Lav.son . t!::ins , et o.ls . C. F . Collins , J . K. Haney , and J . L.• ::aney , '~'rustees of the Fern I~ill United .:retha1E n Church in vhrist , "laving presented t~rnir petition , by counsel , in the above oentioned .9ro::00dinss , asking leave to .ile the same, leave is hereby granted them to do so , and the sc~e is accordin[ly filed . And it bein[s maue to appear to the c ourt t:iat t 11ero seems to be a reversior.ary clause in the deed to tric aforesaid Feion Lill Church property , it is ~ereby ordered that proiess issue a[ainst J . J . 3easley , ...:.lsie elle ::::auzher , G. v. :2au:__,her , o.nc1 L . lJ . Shifflett , the srantors in said deed e.nd J.1 . 'I . Wyant , a grantee of the st.id - . :· . s:.ifflett, ~~ (&; ~ , 0 ry ' �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUN'.I.1Y, VIRGINIA State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia vs. Cassandra Lawson Atkins, et als Upon petition of the Trustees of Fern Hill Church of the United Brethren in Christ, filed in the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, in the above entitled case, being designated as No. 1829, and the Court's order filing said petition, re~uired process issue against H. W. wv'yant and others, returnable to rules; comes now the undersigned H. W. ,lyant and answers the petition aforesaid and also asks that this answer be treated as a petition, and says: That the title papers in this case show that the undersigned by virtue of deed from 1. N. Shifflett, is the owner of the greater part of the tract or parcel of land upon which the Fern Hill Church is built, by virtue of the reversionary clause in deed from L. N. Shifflett to the Trustees of the Fern Hill Church of date August 23, 1918, and by deed f rom L. N. Snifflett to the undersigned of date September 25, 1931, in which said deeds t.he undersigned's rights are mare specifically described as follows: "That in the event the said United Brethren in Christ cease to use the property conveyed as a place of public worship, then the title shall revert back to the owners of the original tract". That while your respondent does not and will not contend. that the proceeds from the aforesaid tract No . 168, should come to him or be his property and estate, so long as the proceeds from said Fern Hi ll Church property can and will be used for church purposes in or near the community of Fern Hill, outside of the Park lines, and for the benefit of its members, in erecting a new church at some other· location along the Spottswood Trail, just outside of the Park lines. The undersigned further represents unto the Court that the United Brethren Church at Swift Run, is just within the Park f:.,1 �2. area, about two miles from Fern Hill Church, and that the award from the two Church properties could and should be invested in church property in the vicinity of Swift Run . That the undersigned is of the opinion that when the Fern Hill Church property was condemned in the above entitled suit , that it was not a voluntary abandonment of the property, as contemplated by the reversionary clause hereinbefore quoted, that would entitle the undersigned to the award, so long as the Uourt directs a re-investment of the proceeds from Tract No . 168 for church purposes in as close proximity to Fern Hill Church as possible . Your respondent and petitioner here most earnestly represents unto the Court that the reversionary clause , hereinbefore referred to , does place the award in the undersigned, if and when the Trustees and members of the Fern Hill United Brethren Church in Crist ask this Honorable Court, to allow the s 2id award to be invested for "church or parsonage purposes in the Virginia Conferencen , as shown by other than in the vicinity of the Fern Hill section ~ the petition filed herein . That the Virginia Conference embraces the State of Virginia , part of West Virginia and part of Maryland and the undersigned ' s predecessors in title, who were mountain people and communicants of Fern Hill Church , desired to have a place of worship in their midst , and therefore, the land was donated to the Church with the reversionary clause aforesaid . The undersigned represents that by deed dated the 26th day of May, 1906, J . H. Haney and others conveyed to L. N. Shifflett the aforesaid tract of land described in these proceedings as Tract No . 168 . A copy of said deed is filed herewith, marked "Exhibit Deed No . One" and is prayed to be read as a part hereof . The undersigned further represents that subsequently , by deed dated the 23rd day of August, 1918, said L. N. Shifflett , J . J . �3. Beasley, Elsie Bell Baugher and G. w. Baugher, her husband, conveyed the aforesaid tract, designated herein as No . 168, to James A. Haney, Chas. F. Gollier . and J . K. Haney , Trustees for the United Brethren in Christ in Virginia, nto have and to hold in trust as church property for the sole and special benefit of the United Brethren in Christ, said pro perty to remain the property of said United Brethren in Christ as long as they use it for a place of public worship and never to be sold if said United Brethren in Christ ever cease to use it as a place of public worship then the title shall revert back to the owners of the orieinal tractn. copy of said deed , makred 11 A Exhibit Deed No. Two", is filed herewith and is prayed to be read as a part hereof . The undersigned alleges that the said J . J . Beasley , Elsie Bell Baugher and G. w. Baugher, her husband, own no interest in said lands, the fee simple title to which had been conveyed to L. N. Shifflett by deed of May 26th, 1906, afo1·esaid', but united in the deed to said Church Trustees for the purpose of releasing or conveying any interest they may have had in a right of way over said parcel of land . The undersigned further represents that by deed dated the 25th day of September, 1931, L. N. Shifflett conveyed to the undersigned , H. 1/ . 1/yant, a certain parcel of land. contiguous to the aforesaid tract No . 168 , and in said deed also conveyed to him all rights reserved by the said Shifflett in the deed of August 23rd, 1918, to said Church Trustees , and which rights are more specifically described as follows: nThat in the event the said United Brethren in Christ cease to use the property conveyed as a place of public worship, then the title shall revert back to the owners of the original tractn . That by the terms of said deed , the undersigned. became v~sted with the reversion in said Tract No . 168 , when and if the Trustees 1,'f �4. and congregat ion of Fern Hill .Church of the United Brethren in Christ fail or refuse to ask this Honorable Court for an order directing the investmen t of this award for church purposes in the Blue Ridge Mountains near as convenien tly can be to the Fern Hill community , outside of and adjacent to the National Park· area . A copy of said deed is filed herewith marked "Exhibit Deed No . Threen and is asked to be read as a part hereof . That there has heretofore been paid into the custody of the Court the sum of $1200 . 00, the amount of money set out in said judgment as constituti ng the award for the fee simple estate of said tract of land, the title thereto becoming vested in the State and, therefore , any rights of the Trustees for the Fern Hill Church of the United Brethren in Christ to use said property as a place of public worship have ceased, unless the said Trustees re-invest the proceeds from said. property under the orders of this Gour t in property to be used. for church purposes as aforesaid . And upon failure to use or cause to be invested as aforesaid , the proceeds arising from the said condemnat ion, to- wit : $1200 . 00, then and in that event,the said amount belongs to the undersign ed , who alone is entitled to said proceeds arising from said condemnat ion , and the undersign ed therefore prays that said award be paid to him . State of Virginia, County of Rockingham , to- wit: I, ~~ - ~,vi/' , a Notary Public in ana. for the County aforesaid , in the State of Virg inia , do certify that H. W. vVyant personally appeared before me in my County aforesaid and made oath that the stat ements of fact con tained in the foregoing answer, made upon his own knowledge are true , and those made upon �5. infonnation derived from others he believes to be true . Given under my hand this 0 -d day of November, 1934 . 11 �THIS DEED made this 26th of May , 1906, between John K. Haney end Lula Haney , of the County of Rockingham , and James A . Haney and Rhoda Haney his wife of the County of Greene, all of the .::>tate of Virginia, parties of the first part and L. IJ. dhiflett of the County of Rockingham and dtate aforesaid party of the 3eco nd part. ~ I T NE S S E T H : That for and in consideration of ten dollars in hand paid to the said parties of the first part by the said L. lL dhifflett pc,rty of the second part , the receipt whereof they do hereby ! acknowledge they the said parties of the first part have bargained sold and conveyed and do now by these presents bargain sell and convey unto him the said L. N. dhiflett all that certain lot or tract of land situate between the old road and the Rockingham turn II Pi~:e in the County of lxreene on top of the Blue ridge mountain and bounded as follans , to 1,,vit : Beginning at a 1/hite 'alnut on the Jou th .:3 ide of the Rockingham turn Pike and on the Horth ~ ide of the Old road corner to J. o. Beaz le;y- v, i th his lire in said old road d 45 E 12 poles thence 3 71 1/2 E 16 poles j 3 87 E 7 poles to ......... 47 1/2 E 25 poles a stake a rock to be planted in said old road thence a new line N 10 W 8 poles to the center of the Rockingham turn Pike thence with said road N 58 W 31 poles r 62 W 24 poles to the old line and with old line 3 13 E 1 1/2 poles to the beginning containing One and three fourths acres (1 3/4) and the parties of lithe first part warrant generally the title to the pro!)Elrty hereby this deed conveyed Witness the following signatures and seals . the daJl and date first above written. - '- John K. Haney (:3eal) Lula ;~. Haney his James .x Haney mark Rhoda Haney (3eal) (.Seal) ( 3eal) 12. �. -------:.--_;:..;.-----'-- - - - - - - ---=--""----------------- - - ~-~T-1 Virginia, Greene County , to wit: I ,D C.:Deane a Notary Public in the County and dtate aforesaid certify tbat John K. Haney Lula Haney his wife Jas A. Haney and rthoda Haney his wife whose names are signed to the foregoing Deed bearing aate the 26 of I.Tay ID6 have each acknowledged the 3ame before me in my County and State aforesaid Given under my hand this the 26th of L.ay 1906 D.C. Deane , N. P . Uy term expires 11 of Dec 1907 Virginia: In the Clerk's Office Greene County Circuit Court. 3rd day Nov 1913. this deed was :presented and together with the certifi- cate annexed admitted to record. Teste. B. I Bickers Clerk. Virginia: barn County In the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of RockingThe foregoing deed of Bargain & .-3ale was this day presented in the office aforesaid and is together with the certificate of a.c'v.:nowledgment annexed , admitted to record this 25 day of September 1931, 4:25 p.m. Teste : J. Robert Switzer , Clerk. 73 �' 19/342 \ ~ \ l t \; • (.,.'II.. ,,,., ~ · THIS DEED made this 23rd day of August 1918, between J. J. Beasley, Elsie Belle Baugher and G. W. Baugher her husband and L. N. Shifflett of the County of Rockingham and State of Virginia, parties of tae first part and James A. Haney Charlie F. Collier an.d J. K. Haney Trustees for the United Brethren in Christ of Virginia, of the second part, WI T N E S S E T H : That in consideration of the love they have for the cause of Christ and in the further consideration of one dollar oash in hand paid to the said parties of the first part, by the said parties of the second part, Dhe receipt whereof they do hereby acknolwedged they the said parties of the first part, have bargained, sold and conveyed and do now by these presents, grant and convey with general warranty of title unto them the said James A. Haney, Charlie F. Collier and John K. Haney, Trustees as aforesaid and their sucessors in office, all that certain lot or parcel of land situated lying being in the county of Rockingham on the Southside of the Swift Run Road near the County line and a part of the two tracts of land they now own and bounded as follows: - Beginning at (I) on a plat a point in the junction of the Mountain road with the old road S ..... ..... 80 W 2 l/2 poles from the County line tree a large Chestnut, thence with old line S 80 W 15 poles to (2) on plat on rock to be planted, thence a new line N 69 1/2 W 2 3/4 poles to (3) on plat a rook to be planted, thence N 41 E 8 2/5 poles, to the old road the line between the Beazley tract and L. N. Shiflett, tract of land, thente same course on Shiflett's land 6 poles to (4) on plat the middle of the Pike thence with said road S 9 E 10 1/4 poles to (5) on plat a point in said road on the West side of the junction of the Mountain road with the pike, thence along the West side of the Mountain road S 25 W 3 3/5 poles to the beginning, containing one and thirty five hundredths (1.35) acreij, To have and to hold in trust as Church Property for the sole and special benefit of the �2. United Brethren in Christ, said property to remain the property of said United Brethren in Christ as long as they use it for a place of public worship and never to be sold if said United ~r ethren in Christ ever cease to use it as a place of public worship then the title shall revert ba ck to the owners of the orig inal tract, Witness the following signatures and seals this the day and date first above written. J. J. Beazley (Seal) Elsie B. Baugher ( Sea 1) w. Baugher ( Seal ) L. N. Shiflett (Seal) Gid Virginia, Greene County To-Wit: ri D. a. Deane A Notary Public for the County of Greene in the State of Virginia, hereby certify that J. J. Beazley, G. W. Baugher, Elsie Belle Baugher and L. N. Shiflett whose names are signed to the foregoing writing hereto annexed, bearing date the 23rd day of August 1918, personally appeared before me in My County aforesaid and acknowledged the same. Given under my hand this the 24th day of August 1918. My Commission expires on the 28th day November 1920. D. c. Deane N. P. 75 �150 -COPY THIS DE8D, mado this 25 327 day of September, 1931, by and bet een 1. N. ~nifflf3tt, party Oi. the first part, and Horbert w. yant, party of the second p. rt, all ofRockingham County, Virginia, I TN Z S 3 E TH : That for and in consideration of the sum of Ten Dollars { 10.00) cash in hand paid by the party of the second part to the party of the first part, the :receipt whereof is hereby ac mowledged , togotner with other [;;Ood and vo.luable consideration, he the said party of the first part has bargained, sold and conveyed and. by these 1>reso.ats doth bart;;ain , oell, grant and convey u.nto said erbert • .ryant all that certain lot or raot of land, together tith 1 provements thereon oitunte on the south side of the Spotts- wood 'j:rail, on top of the Blud •i-i.clgc Mountain in Rockingham Cou..1ty, VL... ·inia , and bounded as follows, to ... wit: Beginning at an iron pin in an old roadway, ,Irs . Elsie .13augher ' s corner and in a line of the lt"'ern IIill Church lot; thence, with a line of th~ ohurch lot. n 41 3/4 " 5 .04 poles, to an iron pin in the south line of the Spotts ood Trail; thanoc, with the sout :i side of t~1e Spottswood Trail, U 45 1/4 1 2.8 polos, to au iron pin on the south side of - said Trail ancl in th"3 middle of the old toekin,glU: m anJ. s·t.1 nardo- ville -'-il.1'np1,rn, said cornor being in Joh.."'1 llaney'.3 lil10; t:1cnoe, with the middle of the old pike. with Haney's line f 64 ~/4 l 9.24 poles , to an iron pin in the middle of tile old pike . llan ..,y 's ~orner and in Mrs . ~lsie Baugher 's line; the:aee, 1th her lines, S 6 1/2 i' l .5 poles, to a stake on the north side of' an old ro· dvmy, whi to walnut culled for; thence, with the old roadway , S 40 10.6 poles, to the be 5 inning, containing .24 of an nor, anl being the residue of a tract or paro l of land containing l 3/4 acres, oonveyod to the said party of the first part by deed dated"' {ay 26, 1906, from John K. J'- Han y and others, which deed is duly recorded in the Clsrk's Office ----- of Greene County in Deed Book No . 17, at page 192, and recorded in the Clerk's Office of Rockingham County, in Deed Book No . ~...;;..;:-- 71.. �, leso, hov:ever, tr at or parcel of land conveyed --the said L. N. Shifflett to James A,,, Haney and others , Trustees at paee b;t ~ of United Brethren in Ch1·ist of Virg:!.nie, which doed is d.ated Au.gust 23, 1~18, record din the Lllork ' s Office of Greene Co~nty in D~ed Book No. 19, at p~ge 342~ and less another tract or purcol of land con oyed 1Jy the sai m:.. icy Rhoda L. rr . Shiff lett to J . A. Haney l!nd by deed dated Jan · ry 20, 1926, which dee d ii? duly of record. in tho 0lork 1 u Off ice of Green., County in Deed Book No . 20 , at page ;,Q.cl, uni less a _;_ rthe1· s trip of land conveyed by said L. N. Shifflet tothe Co~--ionwealth of Vix-ginia , by deed dated otober 20, 1930, whitJh doed. is likewiso recorded in th Oi'fic of Greene Cow1ty in Deud J3ook No ,,, 22 1 at page 31 . pai•·l.;y of tile ire ·;; part ().oth fm•1;her grant antl convey ClerJ~ ' s Tho uaid :ito the 1>ar·ty of the sec on~ part any ancl ull right rt rosorved to him in th doed dated . u 5-uut 23, l<j:l8 • rttro,n J. J . Boas7.ey, L . N. ~hifflett and. othcr:.--s to Jarnen • ifaney an< oth0rs. 1:ruuteos of Uniteu. Brothre11 in Christ o:_ V.i.rgi .d.a, · ora spooifically Q1soribod as followu: That in the oven1; the stdd United Brethren in Christ coase to use tho proyo:i...t 3· nonveyud as tt ')lace of public · ors hip , 1 the:t the title oha 11 :... evort buck to the owm.,1·s c,1 ti1u 01°i • 1 na.l Lrao r; . the ~ho cc..icl p at·ty of tho f i :-.... rJt pRru doth further grant unto arty o the second part, his hoiro and assigns. the risht to u:JO any :p::!rt of t!1e overplun or oxoess water, neoousary for tho urn of said land flowing from the spring on tho .Polly S~.ifflc·tt land and from the spril'l{; on the .. • J . ShL'fle tt land, t t10 grant or ros,_,rvir1t:; to himself. hia heirs and a1.foigns. tb.o ri(;ht to use all water necessa ·y for himself, hie faL'lily aid their livestock from the t o sprin5 s hereinb fore doccribed. The said part;,r of the first pa1•t doth further grant unto the party of th the riciht to lay am second part maintain a pipe line for convoying the water neceosary for the ooi d land from the overpluo or SU.l'p l us from oaid springs to the f'illing station and buildings on the tract or 77 �·- --~ I I I pure el of land hure inbefor., desu1·i bed, with the right of ingrecs and Of;reso J.Or the purpose of layin0 said. pipe line and repairing same . I ntnesn t .. e follovrin~ siunature end seal: I L. N. A:da Rir.u:er witneus his x mark Shiffl~tt P~ea.1) : State of Virgln~a. COl.l._l'lty of Uocki11t;h m, to .. wit: I, fialph Ii . Bao.er, o !Iota l'Y Public in and for the CoW1ty ui'o::.."ctmid., in the State of V;;.r~inia, do oertify that L. Utt Shiff l ett whone 11ar.1e io signcc.. to tho foro t:oin · writing, bearing date on the 25th d'.l'' of Dcp , nber, 1931, has this day p orDonally a.pp eared befor mo in r.w s'"'iU Coun-';y and ~c~mowlcde;e.d the same . ' '1,y ooruH,ission nrc , 1932 . e~::pir ,,3 the 27th rtr~y of C-1 vcn under m:i· he.mt th.is 2!.Jth duy oi' 3optcmber, 19;11 . ~::alph H.. Bader, !f otc.ry Pub lio VIRCHNI.A: In the Olcrk'c Office of the Circu· t Court of Rockirie;ham County . The fc:re _.oi.n~ <lccd o:f ...,f:..RGAIN the office o.forconid, and :f.fl, lTD SJLLE was t h::.s de.y presented in together with the certificate of acknowlen. m~nt n tmflY.e<l. adm:.ttecl to record this 25th day of 3eptembor, 1931, 4:30 P . M. Ter:te: .r. Robert Swit~er, Cwr·· I 7t �er state Jornmission on 0onserv~tion and Development of the Stat of Virginia l vs . Petition of H. W. ·a yan Cassandra Lawson Atkins,&< UPON PETITION OF TRUSTEES OP 1' ERN HILL CHURCH 1 I HERBERT W. WYANT ATTORNEY AT LAW HARRISONBURG, VA. FIRST NATI ONAL BANK BU I LDIN G ... • • �In the Name of the Commonwealth of Virginia, TO THE SHERIFF OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY-GREETING: You are hereby commanded to summon h: r, . ... • J . J.L • 0 J. y nt, .. J • to appear at the Clerk 1s Office of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, at the Court House, on the Monday in h r c. tit1on .. o r, 19 , to a n s w e r ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ F. Collin~, J. K, Haney, and J.A Han y, Truwtc F rn Hill Church of the United rethren in C 1 t, .filed in th, roce of he l'.'lndemn tion of ot te Comm1sw1on on Cons rv tion and Dov lo mvn of the St te of ding Vir in1 v. Ca dr Lawson Atkin, et ls., etc. And you are hereby required to notify the said dejendants that unless they shall answer the said' JJ;/J:. .:i/JJin the time prescribed by law, the Court will take the same for confessed, and decree accordingly. And this J/f&.shall in no wise omit under the penalty of £100. And have then and there this lVrit. JVitnm, and in the I J. "\ Robert Switzer, Clerk of our said Cou"t, at the Court House, the . · t lday of · · .1- ' . ... ... 1Hl: SEUIC£ PJIE. SS- 9 6 2 J. year of the Commom.vealth. October , l93A , �In the Name of the Commonwealth of Virginia, TO THE SHERIFF OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY-GREETING: You are hereby commanded to summon J. J. Beasley, Elsie Belle Baugher, G. W. Bau- gher, L. N. Shifflett, and H. W. Wyant, i-' • to appea,· at the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, at the Court House, on the first Monday in November, 19 34 , to answer:r«:iit'.tirl (111ztt1gin1li2#M;wpi1«:ici21# i}c the petition of C. F. Collins, J. K. Haney, and J.A. Haney, Trustees of the Fern Hill Church of the United Brethren in Christ, filed in the condemnation proceeding of State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins, et als., etc • • And you are hereby required to notify the said defendants that unless they shall answer the saYJm1iJ:hin the time prescribed by law, the Court will take the same for confessed, and decree accordingly. And thuW sh~ll in no wm omit under the penalty of £100. And have then and there this Writ. Witness, and ;. the 1Uf ~EH JC£ J. Robert Switzer, Clerk of our said Cou ..t, at the Court House, tha..8thday of 159th October, ,1934 , yea, of the C o m m o n w e a l t h . ~ ~·. ..........., Cl,ek. PJl.EB-962 &\ �In the Name of the Commonwealth of Virginia, TO THE SHERIFF OF ROCKINGHA M COUNTY-G REETING: You are hereby commanded to summon J. J. Beasley, Elsie Belle Baugher, G. W. Bau- gher, L. N. Shifflett , and H. W. Wyant, ; ,.. 'ti • '1 1.-1 • .v T' .J "I "',l .J C > ... h!:I:. :!) ,...... (T () L .. ~-; . ll _, tt i- ' ... , . ) :, t: ti 0'•'-1 ) • i • -1 .., C: I::; -~ -:-i : > Ci.i ro 1· , O' ..; ') lj~ ., \ .~ •h .., v <-f' . '1') .. i t ) ..... • \) ·\ to appear at the Clerk's Office of · the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, at the Court House, on the first Monday in November, 19 34 , to answerYilXJ§ ilt'u.i·o;:i0JK 1,~2!JdrihJW ~gf)~ffi~~ the petition of C. F. Collins, J. K. Haney, and J.A. Haney, Trustees of the Fern Hill Church of the United Brethren in Christ, filed in the condemnat ion proceeding of State Commission on Conservat ion and Developme nt of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins, et als., etc • . - - petition And you are hereby required to notify the said dejendants that unless they shall answer the said iJiii. within the time prescrrbed by law, the Court will take the same for confessed, and decree accordingly. And thu ~ shall in no wise omit under the penalty of £100. And have then and there this Writ. J. Robert 159th lVitneJs, and in the TUE UJlVJCt: PRUS- 962 Switzer, Clerk of our said Court, at the Court House, th.il.8thday of year of the Common-wealth. 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Shiflett of the county of Rocking.ham and State of Virginia, parties of the first part, and .Haney, Charlie F.Collier and J.Y.Haney, Trustees for the United CF~ 1-t- ·~:, Brethern in Christ of Vir~inia, of the second part. James t.hat in consideration of the love they have for the cause of Christ and in the further consideration of one dollar cash in hand paid to the said parties of the first part, by the said parties of the second part, the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledged they the said parties of the first part, have 1:x.trgained, sold and conveyed and do now by these presents, gr~nt and convey with general warranty of title unto them the said James A. Haney, Charlie F.Collier and J:"ohn K.funey 'l'rustees as aforesaid and their successors in o-f'fice, all that certain lot or parcel of land situated lying bein:;i; in the county of Rockingham on the Southside of the wift Run Road near the county line and a part of the two tracts of land they now own and boundred as follows;- Be inning at tl) on plat a point in the junction of the mountain road with the old road 3.80 1. 2½ poles from the county line tree a large chestnut, thence with old road line S.80 Y. 15 poles to l2) om plat a rock to be planted, thence a new line N. 69½ W. 2¾ poles to (3) on plat a rock to be planted, thence N. 41 E. 8-2/5 poles to the old road the line between the Beasley Tract and L.N.Shiflett, tract of land thence same course on ~hiflett's land 6 poles to l4) on plat and middle of the Pike thence with said road S.9 ~.10¼ poles to l5) on plat a point in said road on the Jest eide of the junction of the mountain road with the pike thence alon~ the west side of the mountain road S.25 W.3-3/5 poles to the bee;inning, containing one a1c.. thirty fivt: ht.1nd_edth ' l.ZiJ) .. cr es, 1 0 have 1 nd to hold in trust as Church property for the sole and special benefit of the United Brethem in Christ, said property to remain the property of said united Brethern in Christ as long as they use it for a place of public worship and never to be sold is said United Brethern in Christ ever cease to use it as a place of public worship then the title shall revert back to the owners of the oririnal tract. litnesc.- the followin:-i; signatures and seals this the day and date first above written. ��31 J I I I f( i,,Uku:1 -r- I .j--0. Tax $ _________2S...__ f • $ / ft Tran"°er $ 2>- Ttttl $----~-- ™;M~ Clerk fteckin~hae C,nt Y, Vt. I . Harrisonburg, Va.~ o ~ .2 Recorded in CR>: o q c\.. .S ;' ~C. Ml -ri\j -,~k ~. Ne,~~ p 1~ Book . �This deed made this 23rd day of August I9I8,between J.J.Bra ley,El ..... Bell B. 1 -h e r e L.N.Shiflett of the 6o unty nd G • • E0 11;,,her her husband and of Rockingham and State of Virginia,9arties of the first part and Jame s A. Haney Charlie F.Collier and J.K.Ha.ney Tru~tees for the United 'Brethern in Christ of Virginia,of the second part, S:E'TH:_ thHt in S I considera tion of the love they b::'ve for the cause of Christ and in the further consideration of one dollar cash in hand pr>i o the said parties of the first pa.rt,by the said parties of the second part,the receipt whereof ' they do hereby acknowledged they the said parties of the first p-rt,heve gargained,sold and conveyed and do now by these present ,gr ht nd convey with general warranty of title unto them the said James A.Haney,Ch~~lie F.Collier and John K.Haney, ru te s as ~fores id and their sucessors in office,~11 that certa in lot or p~r el of land situated lying being in the county of Rockingh line -nd P 0 M on the Southside of the Swift Run Ro d near the Cour part of the to tracts of land they now own and bounded as Mount jn f 11.ows;_ Beginning at (I) on e plat a point in th~ junctio1)6f th road with the old ro· d S 80 ·~.2½ poles from the County line Chestnut,thence it~ old line So80 W.I5 pole ee a large to (2) on plat a ro• ck to be pl•:inted, thence a new line N 69½ W.2¾ poles to (3) on plat a rock to be the .8 ?/5 uoles,to the old road the line betwee planted,thence N.4I ..;., Beazley Tr~ct ann L.N.Shiflett,tract of land,thehce same co·rse on Shiflett's land 6 pols to (4) on ult the middle of the Pike thence with said road S 9 .1oi o es to (5 on ulnt ~ noint in 9aid road on tle West ide of the along the We t side ~junction of the Mounta in ro·- d with the pike, thence of the Mountain road S ~5 W.3 3/5 poles to the beginning,con : ining one ( T. 5 nd thirty five hw1d /iL, ~ acres, T h<1v < nd h ld in tr 1st a Church Property for 1 sole and special benefit of the United Brethern in Christ, ~~id property to reln~in the property of said United Brethern in Christ sold if 1 ng as they use it for place of public worship and nPver to be said United Bret•1ern in Christ ever cease to use it as ~l~ cf' of ~ publ c worshi~ then the le shal Tevert back to the o ·mers f th 0 o i ,inal tr· ct, Witness the following sign tures and sea.ls thi3 th<J day and date first above written. J .J .Beazl_e,L_ __ _(Seal) �Elsie B .~augher (S~al) fil W.Ba ugheJ:__ _ J.§.e9:l L.N .Shifl:_e_t_l___ . (Seal) Virginia, Greene County To_ it; I, D.C.Deane A Notary Public for the County of Greene i in the State of Virginia,hereby certify that J.J.Beazley,G.W.Baugher,Elsie ~ Belle Baugher and L.N. hiflett whose na.t"les are signed to the for Poing 0 writing here toannexed,bearing date the 23rd day of August I9I8,personally ap pe red before me in My County riforesaid and acknoV1ledged the rune • Given under my hane this the 24th d~y of August I9I8o My Commission expires on the 28th November !920. _ VtRGINIA:- )/ .a.Deane N.P. ~ - ----------- In t~e Clerk~s Office, Greene County Circuit Court,.~ Q__day of 'fi1.~ 19a..J ., this deed, was this day filed in the office aforesaid and the certificate annexed admitted to record. ' Ji;; 57 �At a special meeting of the congregation of the Fern Hill United Brethern Church in Christ, held on the // day of 1935, at 7 9,-,,vl,-, o ' clock at the Church House on top of the Blue Ridge Mountain, east of Swift Run, Rockingham County, Virginia; which special meetin[ was du ly called for the aforesaid time and place at a re01lar meeting of the said congregation held at the said Church Eouse, for the purpose of passing up on the disposition to be ~ade of the $ 1200 . 00 fund to be received from the State of Virginia for the condemnation of the Church property for Park purposes, at which special meeting the con 6 regation was fully informed respecting t h e actions taken by t h e Trustees of the Church, by duly verified petition to the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Virginia, to obtain the said fund for the use of t he Fern Hill Church; and respecting the petition of the same trustees and twenty - nine members of the said Church congregation( the total membership of the Fern Hill United Brethern congregation , over the age of twenty - one being only lo)which petition requested the said Court to order the said fund paid to the Treasurer of the Vir g inia Conference Church Extention Society , Inc ., a Virginia Corporation , for the benifit of the said Fern Hill Church, and as otherwise set fcrth below: Pow tlrierefore be it resolved this /I day of '7:"'r .A---'J,-/ ' 1935 , aL this said special meeting calle r! for the purpose that we approve of the actions of our Trustees and the me1nbers of our congregation as afore said; And be it further resolved that we petition the Circuit Court of the County of Rockingham , Virginia, that it order the payment oft the said fund of $ 1 200 . 00 to the Treasurer of the Trustees of ' Virginia Conference Church Extention Society of t~e Unite: Brethern in Christ , a Virginia corporation , as follows: First, that the said fund b e held in trust by the said Corporation , th~i ncome frorri which shall be paid to the local Fern Hill congregation so long as it exists; Second , that should the existance of the congregation S"J �and the Church , as such , be destroyed by the sovereign a~t of the State of Vir 0 inia or of the United States of America , then the said fund shall be used for the P--,rpose of building a new Church at some location agreeable to the so.id Fern Hill ~ ngregation , providine; a sufficient mumber of them locate in a central commur:i ty to justify it , or providing they can agree on some other local Churc to receive either the principal or tl1e income therefrom ; Third , that if both of the above provisions fail then the said fund shall be used for the purpose of building a new Church at some other location agreed upon by the said Fern Hill congrecation or fot the relocation , renair , or maintenance of some other United Brethern Church agreed upon by the said Fern Hill congregation ; Fourth , but if any of the above provisions fail then the said fund , or the income therfrom , shall be used for the erection, repair, or mairenance of a United Brethern Church in the eastern part of Rockingham County , in or near the Swift Hun community . ~~~ _;(~~- __c._, _~./--~ Secretary. r· -~ - - - - ' Pastor -Z£_Q. - - - - - , Virginia Conference Superintendent . bo �In the Circuit Court of Rockineham County , Virginia . In the r:a t ter cf the Fern Hill Unite d Brethern Church . Memorandium for Church . Condition Subsequent - Condemnation - No Forfeiture . The Virginia Court has hei1.d that where t h e perfo11rnance of a condition subsequent , as in this case, becomes impossible (such as the intervention of a sovereign power by condemnation proceeding , for example) then the original grant becomes absolute and the estate is not forfeited . To effect a forfeiture the abandonment must be voluntary . The possibility of a voluntar~ abandorunent, and resulting forfeiture in the case at bar has become impossible by the sovereign act of the State of Virginia . Under these circumstances the fee has become absolute and any contingent forfeiture has been cut off f or ever rofar as the church is concerned . The court said in the case of Burdis v . Burdis, 96 Va . 8I , 83: "The law is clear t hat where a condition precedent is anne xed to a devise of real estate , and its performance is or becomes impossible, the devise fails , although there be no default or lach es on the part of the devisee hi mself xx; but if the condition is subsequent , and its performance becomes i mpossible , t he rule is different . In that case the estate will not be defeate3 or forfeited, but the devisre will bold the property by an a~ lute title , as if no condition had been annexed to the devise . 2 Jarman .. on Wills II; 4 Ke nt ' s Com. 130 ; Ri dge way v . ·ivoodhouse, 7 Beav . 437; Collett v . Collett , 35 Beav . 312; McLachlan v . McLachlan, 9 Pai[ e 534; artin v. Ballou , 13 Barb . 119; Livingst on v . 1 Gord on , 84 N. Y. 140; if-errill v . Emery, IO Pick . 507; Par ker v . Parker , 123 Mass . 584; and Borse v . Hayden , 82 Ille . 227 ." See also Adams v . Adams, 95 i . Va . 187 , 194 (1923) . No reported Virginia cases dealing wit~ a c ondemnation suit has been found, but there cases from other states holding that �.--------------------- ------------- ------~-------where the state or some other sovereign condems the land there is no foi:feiture . There reasoning seems to be sound . For instance , in the case of Scovill v . McMahan , 36 Amer . St . Rep . 350 , a tract of land was deeded to the Ronan Catholic Chruch for a burial ground in Hartford , Connecticut . ~he deed had a reversionary clause in it . Subsequently the lecislature permitted the City to condemn the land and take it for park purposes . The question arose as to who got the a?propriated money . The court held the reverter clause of the deed to be a condilion· subsequent and that the entire fund went to the catholic Church and that no part of it went to the heirs of the original grantor , Scovill . Even assuming , in the case at bar , that the original grantors had an interest in the land by reason of the provision in the deed , at best , it was only "a possibility of reverter" (supra , nar,e ~ 0 356) , of doubtful, if indeed of any value . As was said in the case of Lyford v . Laconia, I39 Amer . St . Rep . 680 (discussed below), at pc:.ge 685 - 6: "Whether the event upon which the plaintiff might come into ownership of the land would ever happen was a mere speculation . There was no method by which the value of the interest could be assessed which would rise above the disnity of a guess . " ':'hen the court goes on further to point out t'-1.at his possibility of an interest is "too remote and continc;ent" to be subject to an estimate of damages . The original granters loose nothing by the condemnation , while the church looses everything , to - wit , the use of the property , which is its only value to the church. As soon as there is a voluntary disuser , t~e property £Oes from t~e church anyway . It does not acquire or hold the property for gain or profit . The State steps into the shoes of the church so far as the original grantors are concerned . Should the state later step out of them , will the property still not then revert to the orinigal grantors just as it would have done in case of a voluntary abandonment by the church? But however that may be the Church ' s property has been taken forever by the State . no1 are the original granters hurt by the State taking the place of the church..? 1,,2 �rn the case of Lyford v . Laconia , 139 Amer . St . Rep . 680 , the reverter clause in the deed to the church was like the one at bar . The land was occupied "with their house of public worship u 1til after the land w&..s talrnn by the city" of Laconia for park purposes . !n that case it was conceded even by the plaintiff and held by the court "that if the society held the land upon condition subsequent, the further compliance with the condition" (to occupy for public worship) "being :prevented by act of law, the society would hold the land discharged of the condition" and that the heirs of the prantor had no interest in the award . t:ow al though it is not conceded that the 9eti tioning assignee has any right to say to what use the fund shall be put , neverthe less , it seems that his suggestions are not in conflict wit~ the best interests of the church community in question anrt a decree has been prepared which is not in conflict with his wishes it is submitted . Cert ainly the Virginia Conference has no de sire of depriving the comrmni ty of a church nor of depriving the cornmuni ty of the use of the funds in question; otherwise the Conference would not have been furnishing the church with a pastor and maintaining it in a large part as a mission church in the past . (As to a disposition of church property in accordance with the wishes of a majority of the communicants see sec . 40, Va . Code , I9I9 . As to the wishes of the congregation in question see their petition to th:s court .) The property is still being used as always ani it is the intention of the congregation to continue to so use it so long as the Federal ?ark Aughorities permit . But should the congregati0n be dispersed by the acts of the State or Federal government, as seems to be impending, and are thereby forced to discontinue the use of the property the money can hardly be divided up into parts and distributed among the trustees or menbers of the church , for them to tal{e to such various localities t:i.a t they might chance to settle in. But such an exigency would not defeat the right to have �the fund held in tact for the lawful use of it as church property . The fund now being held by the State Treasurer is not producing any income . This the church is certainly entitled to . The discipline or Church Lavi of the United Brethern Church in Christ , of which the Fern Hill congregation is a component pa.rt , provides that in case of the sale of church property, and it seems that this condemnation proceeding should be treated as analoGeous to a sale under the circumstance s , the fund derived t 11eref> om may be turned over to the Virginia Conference Church Extention Society, which is a Virginia Corporation, with its principal office at Dayton , this County (Rockingham) . Its charter is on file in the Clerk ' s Office of this County in Charter Book :ro . 3, at rage 63 - 5 . Among other things , it provides for the holdin6 of funds such as these in question in trust . It name implies the nature of its general activities . !Jone of the things that the Trustees of the Fern Hill Church conflict with the suggestions of the petitioning assignee . They are asking for three things . First . That the fund in question be held in perpetual trust by the aforesaid Corporation , the income fron which shall be paid to the local Fern Hill congregation S) long as should existance of the congregation and the That/the . Second . it exists church be destroyed by the action of one or more or both of the sovereign powers heretofore mentioned , then they ask for the priv · ilege of using such funds for the purpose of building a new church at some location agreeable to the Fern Hill congregation providing a sufficient number of them locate in a central community or pro viding they can agree on some other loGal church to recei'e either the principal or the income therefrom . Third . That if either one of these two exegencies fail , then they ask for the privilege of using such funds fur the purpose of building a new church at some other location agreeable to the Fern Hill congregation providing :lrnR~xe~nxagE~ex0mzx0mex0:irnu a sufficient number of them locate in a central community or providing that they can agree on some other local church to receive either :he principal or the income therefrom . �Fourth . That should any of the above fail, then they ask that the fund be used in the erection, repair, or maintenance of an existing church in the eastern part of Rockingham County, in or near the Swift Run community preferably, or that the income from the said corpus be so used, agreeably to or in conformity with the general laws of the United Brethern tshurch ancl the charter provisions of the aforesaid corporation . In short, they are asdng that the fund her in question be disposed of in the same manner as that of the Swift Run fund . - - Counsel . �IN THB CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Vn·ginia vs. UPON PETITION OF TRUSTEES OF FERN HILL CHURCH Cassandra Lawson Atkins, and others Upon motion of H. W. Wyant, leave is given him to file his answer and petition in the above entitled cause, which answer and petition is now filed . Enter ; Jt i l 11' ry \Judge �In the Circuit Court of Rockin£ham County, Vir[inia . The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, v. cassandra La.1,son Atkins and others, and Fifty- two '1 housand, Five Pundred and Sixty-one Acres of Land, _,,,.,,, 'ore or Less . 1 'I'his cause came on this1.>~ay of February, 1935, to be heard on the petition of C. F.Collier, J . K. Haney , and J.A.Haney, Trustees of the Fern Hill United Breth1te.n Church and J.Frs . Russell Hawkins, e.ncl others, communicants of the said church, and upon the resolution rrnd petition adopted at a special meeting of the said congregation, held February II, I935, called for tbe express purpose of passing upon the matter of the disposition of the fund herein referred to, and the exibits filed therewith; on the answer and petition of H.~ . WyB.nt, assignee of the rights and interests of J . J . Beasley,Elsie Belle Baugher, G.W.Baugher, and L.~T . Shifflett, the original granters; and t•1e said J. J. Eea sley ,Elsie E . Baugher, G. W. Eaue;her, andl. F. Shifflett, having failed to answer or otherwise plead to the said petition of C. F.Collier,et als, although it appenrs to the court th8.t they v·ere duly served with process; and was argued by counsel; and upon consideration the court being of opinion that the said United Breth~fm Church in Christ is invested with a superior or better right or claim of title in and to the tract of land, and the improvem8nts thereon, }':umbered 168, by the Petitioner, State Co"llmission on Con servation and Development of the State of Virginia, and appraised by it at (1200 and that it is therefore entitled to receive the proceeds arisinG from the condemnation of the said tract of lar.d and improv ements, to - wit,the $1200; and it being made to appear to the co~rt that it is the wishes and desires of the said Trustees and Communicants of the said Fern Hill Chu,rch that they use the present church property so long as they are permitted to ~ so by the Park J!uthor- ities, and that the said $1200 should be pa~d to the Trustees of Virginia Conference Church ~xten$ion Society of the United Breth~~n in Christ,a corporation e1:isting under and by virtue of the 18-ws of the Rockingham County, state of Virginia , with principal offices at Dayton,/Virginia, to 5( �be held in trust by it for the purposes in the said petition requested and hereinafter ordered . Upon consideration whereof it is hereby ordered , adjudged , and decreed that the said sum of $1200 for the tract !-.o . I68 , paid into court by Petitioners as compensation for the s~ tract of land and improvements , be paid to Glenn~ . Ruebush , Attorney for the aforesaid Trustees and Communicants of the said Fern Hill Church of the United Breth~en in Chri s t; that the said fund be held in trust by the Trustees of Virginia Conference Church ExtenBion society of the United Breth~en in Christ , a Virginia Corporation , as follows : First , that the said fund be 1eld in !i'P'trust by the said Corporation , the i~come from which shall be paid to the local Fern Hill congregation so long as it exists ; Second , that should the exista nce of the congregation and the church, as such , be destroyed by the sovereign act of the State of Virginia or of the United States of America , then the said fund shall be used for the purpose of building a new church at some location agreeable to the said Fern Hill congre 0 n. tion , pro viding a sufficient number of them locate in a central comunity to justify it , or providing they can agree on some other local church to receive either the principal or the income therefrom ; Th i rd , that if both of the above provisions fail then the sa i d fund shall be used for the purpose of building a new church at some other location agreed upon by the said Fern Hill congregation or for the relocation , repair , or maintenance of some other United Brethtft,n Church agreed upon by the said Fern Hill congre51 tion; Fourth , but that if any of the above provisions fail then the said fund , or the income therefrom , shall be used for the erection , repair , or maintena nce of a United Breth~~ n Church in the ea stern part of Rockineham County , in or near the Swift Run comnunity . The Clerk of this court is directed to transmit a certified copy of this order to the Treasurer of Virginia , who will pay unto the said Glenn W. Ruebush , Attorney , the sum of $1200 , the amount 57 �• of the said award set out in the said judgment of condemnation for the said land and improvements, above designated, taking from hi'Tl a receipt therefor and certifying such payment to the clerk f Qr appropriate entry thereof as requi~ed by law. 3 J-/ I j �Qtnmmnuwraltq nf Birgiuia TREASUER 'S OFFICE RI C H M O N D , VA , MARCH 1., 1935 ~ TREASURER OF VIRGINIA A. B. Gathright , This is to certify that I, .xxx.Mlcx ~ of Virginia have this 1 s t day of Treasurer March in accordanc e with an order of the circuit court of Rocki ngham County dated 2/25/ 35 in the cause of the State Commissio n on Conservat ion and Developme nt of the State of Virginia vs . - - - ~C ~a~s-s=a~n~d_r~a~1- a- "i=Y-s-o-u~A ~t-k~:i-D~s~a~u-d~a~t-b~e- r~s~---:pai d t o GlennW . Reubush, Attorney , Harrisonb urg , V:i r g:i nia · $1, 200 .00 b e ing in f ull settlemen t of tract# in the abov e mentioned cause. 168 �Q!nmmnuwtaltI, nf ]lirgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA . MARCH 1 1 1935 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA GJ em W. Ruebu eb , Attorney Harrisonburg, Virginia A. B . Gathright Received of ~~ Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 1 , 200 . 00 , in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county . . . .h_am-'-'---- entered on the 25th o f _ _R-'-o_c_k_;i=n_,g ofFebruary 193L day , in the matter of the State Commission on Conservati on and Development v ___ ____C_a_s_s_a_n_d_r_a__L_a_w_s_o_n_A_t_k_i_n_s_ _ and others, being full and complete settlement for the tract of land known in said proceeding as #1_6_8~- - - Sign original and duplicate and return to the Treasur e r of Virginia. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context fern-hill-u-b-church.pdf Title A name given to the resource Fern Hill United Brethern Church Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Swift Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 168 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Fern Hill United Brethren Church https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/4647033c90fd8a443322d805e0615c2e.pdf 0aa081491429295d3955721424a07bdf PDF Text Text NAME OF CLAIMANT -, . 't2·d0 - ...:.Wlnt..., , IT ·:t..r-y ....nn & Juke ~:orris Number of Acres: 19 Location: Deep Rm. Roads: ~wo Lnd one- fourth !1iles viu clirt roads to Port Repu lie , the nearest shippin~ oint. Soil: St...nd r..nJ. cl~;,r lo:..·--: of with sa~e loose rock . .;.Jntirely within tl1e ..?c.rl;: c.ren . der,tl1 u.nJ fert i l i_ t7 , cent le slopes, L,)Orl History of Tract and condition of timber:.... 11 saiJ t i:--iber lw.s en removed . ine:::; st-nu consist0 of :. . 'nut L1 uorrl:.3 o .. f\18l\i0od ,Jer cove u1d slop8 ~~Jes . 5G cords . oo-1. Improvements: R main- ere on Hone . Acreage and value of types: Types Total Value Value per acre Acreage Ridge: Slope: 5 ~ .,t' ... Cove: 9 <,Ji 10 . 00 90 . 00 7 . 00 35 . 00 1:30 . 00 ~.;J- . .'" i . 'JO DO Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: 5 ~ Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 150 . 00 28 . 00 'i,'178 . 0~ Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ 23 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ ' • 36 Incidental damages arising from the taking- of this tract: �more or less, of land in_l'!?Jt::-:1=.~~ - ~ - _______ County, Virginia, Defenda n.ts. The undersigned, in answer to th~-pltiti on of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of ,~aiV,eti tion and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court offl..~! ~~~~ ~----- -- County, Virginia, asks leave ~f the Court to file this as h~ya:::: si ~ n;;::~to,.:~d notice. _________ __________________________ _ ---~ 3-_ ________________________ _ -~ My post office address is _____ ~ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containin g about ____L.1;__ : _________ acres, on which there are the following ~-~-~ ------ -- ---------------------- buildings and_ improvements =----,ft-~7 This land is located abo~L-~1::--- -:--~-mi les ~rom ___ ~ -~ ~ - - -- --Virginia, in the __,S____________ Mag1sterrnl D1str1ct of said Counfy. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above. ) TL~ -~ ~ _L~~ -- r t . . . ; ~, ~ -~ Pl4-<-_ ~ -e.~-- - ~ g ~ - - ~ ~ - / ~p/ ~ _l'i" _ ~ -- ~ h ~ __w.-/-JW ~~ The land owne:rs adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: - - ------- - -------- -------- -------- --- - -------- -------North ___ (1//4--l.-/d __ ¾ ~ ~ South ____ ' I East--- -------~ -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ---- lkv: /-..,... ~ --------------------------------------------------- West _____ <J:f!_ ~-=---- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year __________ in the . following manner: -7- ,.z:::, -/f~L - ~-- J ~ ---7~ -- ~ __ t j_ ~ __ J-f~ _____________ _ ________ ________ ________ J,()'1./r ________ "¥---'::, __ ~4-._ -17 'A.,. 1 ._j- __ I claim that t~otal value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $___3_~ -~-==-=- -· I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $------- --------- · I am the owner of_ __ _____________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged .%£1e pro-1... _________ . posed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $- ~ as to (In the space below should be set out any additiona l statemen ts or informat ion a here insert also should he le practicab if and make; to desires claimant this claim which description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds ). Remark s·------- --------- --------- ------ - -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -- -------- -------- -------- ---- -------- -------- (Continue remarks if necessar y on the back). Witness my signatur e (or my name and mark attached hereto) this ____ t__f_______ day ;~~;;~-!~~;~~~~~. ~--iru~~~~;~-------------- 1 ~t~NTY OF__ --The undersig ned hereby certifies that_ __ ~--& _-~~ -~-~ ~-~~-;tters the t oatWtha made and him before ed appea y personall claimant named the above and things appearin g in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, .19--c_ ,._,,,t. / ,._,_.__,.____ _j_f(_ ________ this_____ day of__ ____9'~--___ --, 13. , __ ------------------------ ~----- - - -~ of the Court, or Special Investiga tor or otary Public, or Justice of _the Peace. 24 �' Cot ty: . District: 19 A. th l~ . 4 t.. Ot!OS so.oo Lo op Bun. t1on: t1-e1 1th.in th ..o kno ns: ~ olny l o or good d l ooe rock .. o V1 oads: d1:r 24/· .o 100. 00 oos, ooun r clniI!lfl or n J.0. 40 ro d to an • • t rtility, 6 I tl olop s , ort :Ro ublic • t n .~r nt er h • of l on • I lue of land . " tneu: 6 otocki n 5 Iv' To l lu of land Total lu o-r 1m Total vnluo ot t otal v ro lu oft l 5 . 00 :rovomonts: ber o -lop r acre 20 . 00 143. 00 in hi r· on b l �f 380 - : r: ' _rm :11 i nr . County : .... ockinghum Distriet : "fictor " . ·iller ._. ~G ~-7 jove - ']lope 8s toi..: _in c.le - 1 1 ( - ~ c~tna SJ) J --1 ..... l � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Dean, S.A.- Fogle, Earl C. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context ewing-mary-ann-and-jake-morris.pdf Title A name given to the resource Ewing, Mary Ann & Jake Morris Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Deep Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 286 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Ewing https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/5bf2643c29aecb8d0180aa26ee524a1e.pdf b355b327c41f2d79c232a020bf705907 PDF Text Text ROCKINGIL-JJ COUNTY NAME O F ~ ~ O lNER #32_1 - I;ust ler, J . · H. Number of Acres: 10 Location: Millers Run . Roads: Three miles via dirt road to Grottoes, the nearest shlpping point . Soil: Sandy loam, slope type, fairly level, the entire a~ea is covered with loose rock. Entirely within Park area . History of Tract and condition of timber: ~11 the merchantable saw timber was removed from this tract about 14 years ago. Improvements: Acreage and value of types: Types Total Value Value per acre Acreage Ridge: 10 Slope: @ ~;5 .oo $!:50 .00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 50. 00 10 . 00 .,;60 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $10 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 6 • 00 · Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NO NS . ~- /tJl;n~ CLERK, 27 �I County: Rocl{ingha.m District: Stonewall ' 321 - J .. u. EuE;tler Aseessod ~a~o Claimed: De ed 10 Value Olaimed: .I.oc_g.tion: 1; • " l'::)18 "-·~37. 50 Millers Run . Entiroly within • ark urea La.ps : !.one K+town. Soil: Sandy loam, slope type, fairly level, the entire ' reu is covered with loose Rook. no,,ds : 3 miles via dirt road to Grottoes, tho nearest ship )ing point . IUstor1: All the 1:::ercho.nto.ble saw timber wan removed from this tr ct about 14 years a_o. Im.rove~ents: None . Value of land b"'' tvnen: Vulue ~ :.,lope ,\reo.i1e 10 er ucro 3. 00 'l'otal vc.lue of land 30 . 00 Total value of improvoroents Total value of timber ':'o to.l value of tract u por <3r ,30 . 00 3 .,00 'J'oto.l Value . 30.00 �IH '::HE S'i:~~~E er.cu IT cc,:::_I3J:(:~ Cl. II:.'.VEL OJ?T.=I '.c L: 1 ".::._ CC'"LS'.:: C ! _(C:Cfi.,S-H .I CCUl.'::Y C}(~.,.:,_-::{"\'{./1:I ~.; 3'.L~r:2:Z C:b1 VI:EtG IHI t ) ) ::?etitiono1· ) ) ) ) :_t vs . Law 1:0 . 1S29 ) ) C 3 3 •.J.: Te , E,L,:'Y- r~ JC~ ) De:: er:.dan . _, s ) ) ) 3:;: __cY- C~-1 ..... le ,J J 01· Co11es no·v7 the lll1de:csigneC: J . ii . :E.ut~1er and sho',JS to tl.e uourt : .2br.t a jna.gr,;ent in .::·em rJ£~s :he1·etofore been ente:.:ed in 1 tn.is pi·oceeding condem .:.ng to the use of t :ne 11etit ionei· t·_e fee sir-':.ple estE'te in!:. t:::-·.,ct of lF.nd. nuL1)erec1 L3 follows : ..:rF..ct 1. 0 . 321 , and. de3cribed in the 1•e-p01.'t of the Boa:cd of ->-lJLH'Lisal Commis - aionees appointed herein and s~oTTn , nuciliered tnd d2lin~ated c the I Caunt;- 0.7ner sh i:p Ilap :Ci le cl t1~e:c· ev;j th , upon ·08. ~ ::rnn t in to the cust odJ o:: the Com.' t of the sum set out il'.! the s" ic:c jr:!6.bc:en t u .3 con st it u t therefor , as folloDa : ing the au~r persoEs clain , or appear to Lav e a cl aim to an interost in ti1e sc1i Ll'Lct of lenu. or in t}:~e - roc sea.s crising tror.1 tLe concler:mation tLe.;:eof ; t1Lt l,he rlctit i oner hE.s pa. id into the cuotod;r of the Jou:ct tlle :.rn,id s r:1 set or:.t in ;:,c"'id. judgrn.ont s.s co.1stitu~ing t .le a·::e._· ".. fo1· t~e fee .Ji.u1ple est· te in tJ.~e Silic. trc=.ct of land ; tr:.a t your uu c1.e. d.2..t e of the said .~udgment in rem conct.er.minz ·L:..e ·t::d.ct cf l.'..-'-.nct , o-:.:.r..ec. o::.· the seict trt..ct tl:e1·eo:f.' :- 01· '.'?c.S ec.titled to the follor1in3 intere;;;lt in in the :proceeds cuisi ~0 from ti:..e concier.1nst ion the fee sim1)le estcLe . r1:r..a t no other 2_'.)0.L' son or pe 1· s ons than the undersi 0 ne d &re entitled. to s:ru.re in ~he d.isti·ibution of the said 2.1a::cc. or L1 the nroceeds [..l'isin 0 f::i.<om the conder;mation the::eoi' on t:te d.t:.te oi:' entr~ of said. judgE1ent. 181 �pL:-.:-ty he1'ein uncte:r.· t11e p:!..'ovisions of Jection 21 of the Public ?ark Condemr.:ation .t1... ct , 1:...nc.:.. t:1at an o:cder be entel'ea. ::01• the di.:Jtributio1._ ~v,ard fo1· the ::ee simple este.te in the a-id. t:rv ct condemned as af o:resaid , snd for the pa~nnen t to the und.e1·si;ned. of tlle said a".tard , ·,71-.:i.ch the u12dersicned [;.Ve=-·s is c,;,s follo·,:s : 1r~ct ~o. 321 , ~60 . 00. _ __G_1_·~ttoes , Vi~sinia )) tO - wit: State of Virginia County of Rockingham I, P . R. Cosby, a notnry public in and for the Bounty aforesaid, do hereby certify that J. H. Eutsler ,7hose name is signed to the foregoing writing, this day p e Fsonally appeared before me, in my said County and acknowledged the saee . Given under my hand this 26t d 8:t{(of Ja uary, I934. r~y Commission expires---'...C..-,,-'-' - f -2..1.$-? __ _ 1i2. �r-- - -= - - ~ - - - - - - - - - - ~ - - - ~ - --=- - - - - - - - - - - - - -_-_- _~- - -_-_-_-_- - - - -~ STATE OF VIRGINIA COUNTY OF ROCKINGH.AM, to-wit: I, J . Robert Switzer, Clerk of the Circuit court of . Rockingham County do hereby certify that the records in my office do not show any delinquent taxes against the tract of 10 acres of land in Stonewall District , assessed in the naI!l9 of J . H . Eutsler_. Given under my hand this 30th day of January, 1934. �.. - M. H. HARRISON TREASURER OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA TO 7filO!t. IT N'iAY CONCERN: I hereby certify tha~ the records of my office show that 3 . H. Eutsler has paid the taxes for the years 1932 & 1933 on his tract of 10-0-0 acres of land situate in the Blue Ridge 1:ountains in Stonewall District, Rockingham County. All taxes prior to that time, if any be in the Clerk's Office of said record of due, are a matter County. Given under my hand this 23rd day of January 1934 . M. H. Harrison, ~reasurer By C: Q_ (?,i,w 4 't,1 I Deputy . 1~4 �1 ..:E~; .:Vi:L':.:Z .. i."11 . . Ja: ... -I] 3 r:r r:: 8CIBE.:V: ~ ICIJ D::7~'L01YE1.·~ C...: 1:2.t:E J~_''.:;E C? VI:1.G-IlJIA J?eti tiouer ) ) } vs . ,._, o. 1829 ) C J 3 j_~E::... L "13 r:r . 2t-:I,. J ) ) ..'.'. lffi C'I'TT .£] 3 , 8.ild. -::1rr1TY- '.:.:'·vo TRCUJ,:l'D ' "'JIV;:, HU:in:::=:n AI.;1) 3IX.i: - EE ( 52 , 561) . Jl.E3 O!P Iu:: , more or less , On this 2;_ Def enc.cw ts ) ) ) cla:· of 9 ~ , 1934 , Cc~!.'.'18 John 1:. hutsle.1•, of Grottoe:J , Vi:i.' 6 inifa , by Ed'.7C.rc3. C. }1.a.rtL; , 1.i3 . . t'torrie;, , and. on tis mo-i:; ion le uve is given him to file his a p:plic;:,.. t ion fo1· PG..yLe nt to hirr. o:: the sum of .,1,60 . 00 , tne ar:10unt of the S.\7al'C. oe1i out in tl:e ,iEc. 6 n:ent of cona.er.mat:i. on .for tri.ct no . 321 ancl ho:.' etofo:ce paio. int O C OUJ.' t . .. nci it .:.,J)pes.rir.g to tlle Com·t th&t the sc.icl John rr . :;utsle1• o:: 3-rottoes , Vi1·gini1::1. , is investee, ::it:c superio:::.• or better 1•ight 0 or cli:1ir.1 of title in c.,n' to the sniC. truct of lancl Ho . 321 tb.B.n an;y' othe1· :person 01· r,e:i.· sons end. tr.:£.t the reco1·6. in this p1·o c eeo..jn~· does not disclose ~ny den i al or dispute by any person or person8 i L1 intcn·est e.s to the tit le to Sc.id trc,ct .., o . 321 , 01· ·enc ar i.Jir.,s from uhe conclemne.tion the1· eof: and. it fu1·ti:er i)I'O ce. c-;,s d.pDe;::!.· ing to the 8ou:rt that c.1 1 t""xes due on s:i.id t:c._ ct ,..o. 3~J,l 11:.ve been pc.ic. ; 'Upon consic..eration \'!r.!BreoC , the .,01.,:,:t <...oth .- djnd.:;e , u a.e · just coG:pen3ation for said t1•-.,ct i,o. 321 , t,e paic'.c to s icL John J • .:::;utsle::.· oS? G ·ottocG , vi1·ginie, . _nd it i ' fu.r.'t:Ler 0.1'de1·ed. th[,t the Cle:c~~ of \i_iz Cou"'"·t is he:. :eb;i,/clL· ected to transmit t:iJ.e 2. be ce:::.· tif'ieo. co-·;y of thi.J 1·c su1•e:i.· of Virginia , vfrio s.·-1 1 pc.~T ur1to Jo1.".!.n tl . 1 ..1. J..Jutsle ...·, of ~L·ot-·coGs , VirginL , 'L11e 01:c.id.sum of .;60 . 00 , beinc the ';.... ount cf the &ii'L.L'CL set out in .;;cia. juu.0ment o.: uonctem .. ation for .., . . . ic.: ·ci·c.ct .,o . 321 , tc..i:ing frorr1 as.id Jol:n H. Eutsler a :::.·E,cei:9t /71 �,_ - Ii 1, II Ii II Ente1·: JC..:..'.}Z fl II II ' ' ' ' ' .}77) �COMMON W~ALTH OF VIRGINIA EUTSLER JOHN H. .-------------------------------------- M No. ---------···· PERSONAL PROPERTY Pajle_ ___._.. e.....Llne. _ __ ···- · INCOME To M. H. HARRISO N, Treasurer Rockingh am County, Harrison burg, Virginia STATE TAXES AND LOCAL LEVIES -1933 Paae. _______Llne·-- - - -···LAND FOR STATE TAXATION ONLY I I State Rate on $100 Value I .70 I Local Rate on $100 Value Machinery and Tools .. . ......... · 1- - -- - - -- Mercbants' Capital ............. .. _ _ _ _ _ __ __ 1.06 Acros1-- ----~"" ''-- 1.06 -~cres1- - -- - - - - - 1.06 Real Estate 1.o~o~__ Real Estate ... . - -- .76 . Is 50 ,50 Local Levlea $ .50 Real Estate .... _ _ _ __,.cresi-- -- - - - - - 1 1.05 Real Estate . . . . ----~·Cre &l-- -- - - - - - - 1 1.05 Real Estate ... . 1.05 Acres - -- -···- I $ 1--13 3_ 1----- - ---- · ·'-'--'-;.;·...;.· 1S-··- - - · ·;.;·.;.·;..; · ·...;.·.;. · ;.;··...;.·.;.··;.;·.;.·;..; · ·...;.·.;. · ·;.;·...;.·;.; · ·...;.·.;. . ·;.;·...;.·;.; __T.:.:;:O;.:T.!,!AL:::..;L::;O::,C;:;:A=L..:L:::E::.:V:..:l.::E;:;:S.;. State Taxes Brought Forward ... ............. .. . ............ .. . . . 1 - - - - - - l CREDITS Total State and Local Levies . .. .... . . Amount Account Date $ .35 .70 Tangible Peraonal Property .... . ... $, _ __ _ __ _ __ $ 1.06 10 TOTAL STATE TAXES . .. .. .. . .. . ............ . . . .. . $ .35 $1.05 Total .. .. .... . FOR LOCAL TAXATION ONLY State Capitation Tax ....... . ...... . ........... . ...... .. .. $ 1.60 $ Bonds, Notes and Other Evidence• of .60 1-- ------1Debt .. . ... . ...... . .. . ....... . , 1.,.- -- - - - - - - - 1 _, _ _ _ _ __ __ .20 _ _ , Money . .. . . . ............. ........ Moneyed Capital In Competition with 1.00 National Banks . .. .. .. . ........ · 1-- -- -- - -- -1 Capital Not Otherwise Taxed .... . .. 1 - - - - - - - - - - 1 Income: 1½% on first $3,000; 2½% on next $2,000;8%onex ceasover$o,00 0,1-- -- - - - - - - I - County Levy .... . . . County School Levy_ Paite......·-··--····Llne State Ta,es Real Estate and Tangible Per• Machinery Merchant'• Capital sonal Property and Tools LOCAL RATES: 26 12 _______GROTTOES --------------------------------------, Virginia DISTRICT STON:mWALL -....J ------- . ------ -- ------ 1------ ------1 ----- -- ---1 . --- ---- - - -----1-- --- - ------ 1 S-- - - - - - $ .•__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19.__ _ RECEIVED PAYMENT: 6% Interest from June 16, 1984, to date of payment ............ .. ... 1 - - - - - - 1 By• _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ M. H. HARRISO N, Treasurer fl~ ~ ------------,,1' _/ ' M----------- ·~ 1 -~ 14 Total Taxes, Levies, Penalties and Interest ...... . ..... .. . . ......... $ COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA -- ---- 1 --~ ~ Stonewa ll District Real Estate &Tan,i. Per. Prop. County Levy ............ ,$ .37 County School Le,y • • • • • • .83 County Road Levy • . • • • • . • .10 District Road Levy . . . ... .. .35 •• ••••••••••• Levy .• •• •••••••• ·-----·------·-------·---··-4·--·--g····-·-·······~ ········-··-----..VIRGINIA, Dr. ToGEO . _:_B.-KEEZELL;:::Treasurer of Rocking ham County State Taxes and Local Levies---1931 _ __ _ _T_ I_O_ N _ A _ AX _ F_T _ _ _ _S_U_B_J_E_C_T_ S_O Personal Property.· .. Paae .. . ••. Line ••• , •• Income . .... .... ... . Page .••••. Line, • • • •• Land •. . .... . ...... . Page / . ~-Line . • ~ . Total •••• •• •••• $1.65 _ _L _ R_ L_O_C_A __ 1 _F_O _ t _e_T~a_:r_es ....:~:::n~te~S:::.~:::O::..t-e--1l--S_ta _ E_ _- 1s _ U +-__V_AL FOR STATE TAXATION ONLY State Capitation Tax ............ , •.•.•••• , • . • • • • • • • • • • Bonds, Notes and Other Evidences of Debt .•• $.................. Money ... ... ... . .... .... ........ . . . . ...... ............ ......... . Moneyed Capital In Competition with National Banks ... . . .. .. .. . ....... . .. .. . . · - ••••••••• • •••••••• Capital not Otherwlae Ta:red ....... . .. .• .••. •••••••••••• ••• ••••• Income : 1¾ % on first $3,000; 2¾% on next $2,000; 3% on e:rcess over $5,000 •• •• . •.• . . ········-··-··· ····· .•.... $ $ .so ~ .I. -- Tangible P ersonal Property . ..... $---·-·······-··--- $ 1.65 Machinery and Tools . . ....... . .. --- -·- -· ···· ··-····- 1.75 Merchants' Capital ... .. . ....... . -·····-···· -········ Real Estate ./. Q :-; .C/. :':.a .Acres --- ••••\.J. •. 1.13 Real Estate .. , . . ........•.. Acres 1.65 Real Estate • . •. ... . . ..•. .. . Acres ··· ·········-····· ·· 1.65 TOTAL LOCAL UW<EL : ·.··: ···· ."l?..... _ 1.00 .75 .. -·-------·--·.. -------- TOTAL STATE TAXES .... . .......... . .•. • •. . .. . .•.• . •.•... •• .. $.....·--·········· CREDITS ~. ---------- ---------- --.... ---------·- ----.... --.. --- ------... ----- --- . ------- ......... -- ---- ---- ---- -- -- ---- ---- ---- 5% P enalty June 16, 1932 ....... . .. . .. .. ........ . ......... Total Taxes , Levies and Penalties to June 16, 1932 ........ Date ..... .••. ............... . .... . 6% Interest from June 16, ·1932, to date of payment ....... T o tal T a xes, Levies, Penalties and Int erest .• .• .•.. . .... .. . Amount Received Payment --····-·· ··············· ········ ··············· ···Treas. $1.75 $1.13 $.·-·····-······-- - 1 ··-········-··· ·· · ·- ,· .. --------------·-----·-·-- -------------------- ·----------- -------------------- ------ , Account ... .. ·.311 1.65 State Taxes brought forward . .. ... ....... . . .... . ....... .. .... State Taxes and Local Levies . . ......... . .. . .. . .. .. ... . ... Date Merchan Capital • • . .. j 3 .. =c=al Levies - ~°.;~:~~~r"~oo~te.J-__ _:_Lo _ U_E_ _-JL V_AL _ Y--I___ _ NL T_A_X_A_T_I_O_N_O .JV .20 Mach. & Tools $ .37 •83 .20 .35 $...•.....•.... .. p 1----- --i-- $_ ..............•..!........ 5% Penalty December 6, 1931 .. . ... . ... . ............. . .. . . 1- - - - -- - ~ - Total Taxes, Levies and Penalty . . ......... . .......... : ... $ __ ............... ... ···- 1-------1--$_ ................. ·····-1-------1--$----········· ····- ······-· li e �C!rnmmnuwralt4 nf llirgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. JOHN M. PURCELL February 5, 1934 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA This is to certify that I, J.M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virg inia have this 5 d.ay of_Februa.ry in accordance with an ord.er of the circuit court of Rockingham Crn1nty d.ated_ ~ _/~3~4___ in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and. Development of the State of Virginia vs. ........i~n~s.__ _ _ _____ _ Cassandra Lawwo~n_._____,A......,.tk :paid. to John H. Eutsler, Grottoes, Virginia $_6_ 0_ . _0 _0_____ being in full settlement of tract #-ZJZL in the above mentioned. cause. �Q!nmmnumtalt4 nf l!lirgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. February 5 , +934 JOHN M. PURCELL TREASURER OF VIRGINIA John H. Eutsler Grottoes , Virginia Received of J.M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 60 . 00 , in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county of Rackjngha:m entered on the 2nd day of February 193_4_ , in the matter of the State Commission on Conservation and Development v _ __ _ __C_a_s_sa_n_d_r_a_L_a_w_s_o_n_A_t_k_ri_n_s_ _ and others, being full and complete settlement for the tract of land known in said proceeding as #-~3~2~1___ Sign original and duplicate and return to the Treasurer of Virginia. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used 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, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Dean, S.A.- Fogle, Earl C. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context eustler-j-h.pdf Title A name given to the resource Eustler, J. H. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Millers Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 321 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Eustler