221 20 4487 https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/Madison_County_SNP_Records_Court_Proceedings/mcsnp_utz-bs-and-clore-jno-tract-182.pdf 87b9271c34ae6d87104822461547866b 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 Madison County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Madison County SNP Records collection consists of 363 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. D.F. Anderson and Others, and Fifty-Five Thousand Acres of Land, More or Less, in Madison County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Madison County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930-1934 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Utz, BS and Clore, Jno Description An account of the resource Tract(s): 182 Items in Land File: <ul> <li>Claimant Worksheet</li> <li>Tract Assessment</li> <li>Survey</li> <li>Owner Claim</li> </ul> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"></a> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Madison County SNP Records collection consists of 363 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. D.F. Anderson and Others, and Fifty-Five Thousand Acres of Land, More or Less, in Madison County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Madison County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930-1934 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/. Title A name given to the resource Utz, BS Trustee Description An account of the resource Tract(s): 162 Items in Land File: <ul> <li>Claimant Worksheet</li> <li>Tract Assessment</li> <li>Owner Claim</li> <li>LOB9</li> <li>Tax Records</li> </ul> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"></a> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Madison County SNP Records collection consists of 363 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. D.F. Anderson and Others, and Fifty-Five Thousand Acres of Land, More or Less, in Madison County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Madison County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930-1934 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/. Title A name given to the resource Utz, FM and MB Description An account of the resource Tract(s): 229 Items in Land File: <ul> <li>Claimant Worksheet</li> <li>Tract Assessment</li> </ul> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"></a> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Madison County SNP Records collection consists of 363 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. D.F. Anderson and Others, and Fifty-Five Thousand Acres of Land, More or Less, in Madison County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Madison County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930-1934 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/. Title A name given to the resource Utz, Jas. S estate Description An account of the resource Tract(s): 116 Items in Land File: <ul> <li>Claimant Worksheet</li> <li>Tract Assessment</li> <li>Survey</li> <li>Owner Claim</li> </ul> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"></a> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF 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 116 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MCSNP_Utz-Jas-S-estate-tract-116 Utz https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/8aa0d1477b98a43a493b54f3469bf1e4.pdf 063bc7560196a71c6f659142b3f2c791 PDF Text Text Rappahannock County Piedmont District NAME OF OWNER #256 Number of Acre*: Location : - Vacant Land on Pignut Mountain 130 . Top of Pignut Mountain and south slop © It is three miles over steep rough roads to the Lee Highway, thence 17 miles to Luray, the nearest shipping point Roads : . . . . The soil is a sandy loam, fertile but very rocky There are both The slopes are moderate to steep The exposure outcrops and loose rock is mostly to the southwest with a little to the north Soil : . History of Tract and condition of timber: Timber and bark have been removed where accessible and the area has been repeatedly burned, the last time in 1926. when a very severe fire covered most of the tract, There are a few scattered trees but they cannot be cut profitably . Improvements: . None Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage Slope : 130 Value per acre @ Total Value $260.00 $2.00 Cove : Grazing Land : Cultivated Land : Orchard : Minerals: Value of Land : $ ‘260•00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard : $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood : $ Value per acre for tract : $ 2.00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract : $ - NONE CLEKK �County: Rtp pahannock District: Piedxnont - #256 Vecant (Pignut Mountuln) Area in Claim : Value Claimed: . " Ton of Pignut Kountuin and south slope Locution: Incumbrances, counter c Inins or laps; Roads: Hone . .novn It is three miles over steep rough roods to the Lee Highway, thence 17 miles to Luray, t’ e nearest ship - . f ping point I _ . / . . The soil is a sandy loam, fertile but very rocky Soil: „ .. . There uro both outcrops and loose rock . are moderate to steep The slopes The exposure is mostly to the . soubhwest with a little to the north - History of tract and condition of timber: Timber and bark have been re moved where accessible and the area has been repeatedly burned, the last time in 1926, when a very severo fire . covered most of the tract There are a few scattered . trees but they cannot be cut profitably . Improvements: Hone Area and value of land by types: . $2.00 130 Slope $260.00 Total value of land n Value Per A Acreage: Type Tf " Average value per .00 -— 1260 acre: $2.00 tract Total Value $260.00 �County: Rappahannock District: Piedmont IV $256 - Vacant ( Pignut Mountain) fs / . J A.Jones Ambrose Bailey ) M J n V r\ v . .. Della B ,& Chas I Jenkins J.B.Bolen Della B. Jenkins H.L.Johnson r < . Baker Wm Cove LEGEND: Orchard Slope Ridge Scale - Grazing Land Tillable Land l" = 20 chains �% « �A. C. C A R S O N ATTORNE Y AND COUNSE LLOR - AT- LAW RIVERTO N , VIRGINIA May 29, 1937 Mr. James M. Settle Clerk of the Circuit Court Rappahannock County Washington, Virginia Dear Mr. Settle: • The Chairman of the Commission and Director of National Parks have asked me for a report as tothe the s of tract 256 on Rappahannock County Ownership Map in thestatu Park Condemnation Proceedings. I do not have all the records befor would be greatly obliged if you will advise me:e me, and I First, was this tract included in tne table of tracts under the first judgment in rem entered November 13, condemned 1933? Second, was this tract included in the order dismissing tracts not taken in nappahannock? (in tnis connection please let me have date of the entry of the Dismissal Order.) . £ <£05, - )*uu Third, who were the owners or claimants to this tract? The Board of appraisal Commissioners valued it at $260.00. Fourth, do you know, or remember any special reason why this tract was dismissed ? Did the owners have any special objec tion to its being taken? Was any special order entered with regar d it, and if so when was this order entered and what did say? it If you have no special recollection as to this tract, you need not bother with this fourth inquiry. in the You will find the juugment and the dismissal order ’’Muniments of Title ”. The report of the ooard of appraisal and the County Ownership Map should show the nameCommissioners of the owners . or claimants With my kind personal regards, I remain !/ OL C * to * Very sincerely yours, a. C. - 0&rson v " ; v 5 \V ' ^ 1 �.rung V .. . 1st 1 37 « ^ ' Judge A C Carson, Aivcrton, Virginia . Uy dear Judge Corson* haplying to your letter of ay 2 th, upon examination of tho records of ny office X find tho following ^ . (l) That Tract llo * 256 .mo included in the table of tracts condemned under the first judgment in rom enter ed hovonber 13, 1 ^33. (2) * 3aid Tract was included in the order dismissing trac ts not taken in to.ppuhannock County Hie di amianal order having boon entered on June 20, 1934 .. -- ..^ . (3) Xt does not ap ear fro the record tiiat there are any claimants to aid Tr ct llo 2 6 lie A praiaul Commissioners valued said tract at 260.00 appears fro 1 the County It Ownership .~ap that this is Vacant Imnd located on Pignut fountain, raid also from the report of said Co iosioners t,iut said tract contains I30 acres The said Coani.osio ners ado tile following notation relative to said tract nu bor 2p6; "This a soars to be . ac wit and unappropriated land for which no claim was tiled and to which no claim has over been assarted 30 for as tme Co lisoionors are informed " .- - . - . X wish to state further for your information tiiat 0 norohip up as being vacant land on Oven Top Mountain, containing s, for 36 acre which the said Cosuais sicnors alio od the sun of 3 0.00 This tract was also included in the table of tracts condo ned under tii9 first Judgment in rem, but this trac was not included in tao order of dismissal but is included int tho TAhL 0: A /AilDS daid Tr. c t - 2p6 is not included in tho TA3LJ OT A A3 IOC Please advise if tliere is any further information you may desire relative to said tract Tract ,/257 is also listed on tho County - ^ . ’ . . Very t uly yours, . .Jettlo, Clerk. Jas . � 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 Rappahannock County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Rappahannock County SNP Records collection consists of 350 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Clifton Aylor and others, and Thirty-Seven Thousand Four Hundred (37,400) Acres of Land, more or less, in Rappahannock County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Rappahannock County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rappahannock County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Bulk of the collection dates 1930 to 1934 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/. Title A name given to the resource Vacant Description An account of the resource Tract: 256; Location: Top of Pignut Mountain & south slope; Cost/Acre: $2.00; Estimate Value: $260.00; Number of Acres: 130.0; Monies Awarded: $ (n/a) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rappahannock County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF 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 256 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context vacant-tract-256 https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/72d79c4f2360c46af8d38275191d5bae.pdf ace06aff21351376ce0bda4f31aafd68 PDF Text Text County! Rappahannock District: Piedmont - #257 Vacant Land (Oven Top Mountain) Acreage Claimed: Value Claimed: Location: . Oventoy Mountain Incumbrances, counter claims or laps: Soil: - - Sandy Clay . Rocky dry . None known . of only fair depth and fertility . South and Last exoosuro About two :iile3 of rough dirt road to Lee Highway, Roads: . thence 13 miles to Luray, the nearest shipping point Hi3tory of Tract and condition of Timber: / ffl / This tract has been cut over repeatedly since tanbark was r moved about thirty . years ago At present there ere some Red and Chestnut . oaks scattered over the tract Stumps and tops indicate . very recent cutting . Improvements: Hone Value of Land by Types: Type: Slope Acreage: Value Per A . . $2 CO 36 -- - Total value of Land r - Total value of tract Average value per aero $90.00 . $90.00 $2.50 Total Value $90.00 �Rappahannock County Piedmont District NAME OF OWNER #257 Number of Acre*: Location : - - Vacant Land Oven-Top Mountain 36 Oventop Mountain, About two miles of rough dirt road to Lee Highway, thence 13 Roads : miles to Luray, the nearest shipping point . - Sandy clay dry, of only fair depth and fertility, south and east exposure Soil : . Rocky; This tract has been cut over repeatedly History of Tract and condition of timber : At present there are since tanbark was removed about thirty years ago , over tract chestnut oaks scattered the . Stumps and tops and red some indicate very recent cutting . . Improvements: . Hone Acreage and value of types : Types Slope: Value per acre Acreage 36 @ §2.50 Total Value §90.00 Cove : Grazing Land : Cultivated Land : Orchard : Minerals: Value of Land : $ 90,00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard : $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood : $ Value per acre for tract: $ 2,50 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract : $ NONE ' CLERK � 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 Rappahannock County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Rappahannock County SNP Records collection consists of 350 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Clifton Aylor and others, and Thirty-Seven Thousand Four Hundred (37,400) Acres of Land, more or less, in Rappahannock County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Rappahannock County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rappahannock County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Bulk of the collection dates 1930 to 1934 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/. Title A name given to the resource Vacant Description An account of the resource Tract: 257; Location: Oven Top Mountain; Cost/Acre: $2.50; Estimate Value: $90.00; Number of Acres: 36.0; Monies Awarded: $90.00 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rappahannock County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF 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 257 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context vacant-tract-257 https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/Madison_County_SNP_Records_Court_Proceedings/mcsnp_vacant-tract-255.pdf 73fbfd3051195a69a87332e04c265c82 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 Madison County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Madison County SNP Records collection consists of 363 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. D.F. Anderson and Others, and Fifty-Five Thousand Acres of Land, More or Less, in Madison County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Madison County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930-1934 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/. Title A name given to the resource Vacant Description An account of the resource Tract(s): 255Items in Land File:<ul><li>Claimant Worksheet</li><li>Tract Assessment</li></ul> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"></a> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF 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 255 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MCSNP_Vacant-tract-255 https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/266028c5a34cd6e0eca0eb3f2405f525.pdf 34476bb314cd877ceab43adf19b7ffb4 PDF Text Text ftockingham County #74 - Vacant Land Number of Acres: Southern end runs up to Park boundary but does Dry Run . not cross it . Location : - - Roads: 21 Four and one-half miles of good country road to Elkton. Soil: Shallow loam of averag e fertility . Very rocky. History of Tract and condition of timber: Burned repeatedly and h a rd cut up to and including 1930 . Hardwood stand cnnsists larg ely of oaks with scattered pitch- pine trees of small sizes . P1enti of reproduc t ion but only a few trees large enough for firewood . o timber, all brush except southern end, and patches of pine and hardwoods totalling not over 20 cords for the entire area. Improvements: NJ NE . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 21 @ $3 . 00 $ 63 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals : ValueofLand: $ 63. 0 0 Value of Improvements : $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ ValueofWood: $ 10 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 3 • 50 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE ~ - ~: CLERK \01. �,_,- - - - - - - - - - - = = - - - - - - - - -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ---f NAME OF Wiml'tiv.t'- -- - OWNER #74- a - Vacant Land Number of Acres: 20 Location: Neck Run . Entirely within the Park area . Roads: 3 miles via dirt road to Port Republic, the nearest shipping point . Soil: Sand and clay loam, slope type of thin depth and fertility . Moderate slopes . History of Tract and condition of timber: 'l'here is no saw timber on this tract, and it has been burned over repeatedl y . Improvements: N8NE . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 20 @ $5 . 00 $100 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land:$ 100 . 00 --- --Total Value of Improvemen ts: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit : $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ 5 • 00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE ~-~'. CLERK \o3 �Di 1) e oros r • it. o tern n Co ty, t ·1 I runs a e t Yono. In s lo l e1• 0 of 11 ty. V o d o ,unt.. y i·o d to or O, "il Tot l Vi luc 4 lu ot l l .. rn. l ton. cut unto Valuo To not o · L,nd lu, of' V lu 0 ,t luo of timb - ... 42. 00 l" .. 10. 0 r ot 01' ... ;;2. a. .,:r 0 ·2. 47.- .o �County: Rockingham District: Stonewall Vacant !!;74 a - Deed Assescod Acreage Claimed: Value Claimed: Loc~tion: Neck Run • .l.!, t1rely ithin the Park area . Thero is no kno1m claim for this Incumbranees I counter claims or laps: tract a nd no call" or descrip tions or survey to cover it . Soil: Sand -nnd olay loam, slope t ype of thin dop t h a nd fertility , moderate slopes . Roads: 3 miles via. dirt ·roa d t o 1-ort Rep ublic, the nea res t shipping point . ere 1s no saw timber History of traot and oondi tion of ti.iber: on this tract and has been burned over repeatedly. Improvements : .T one . Value of land by types: ~ Slope .oreage 20 To tal value of land Value Per a cre J3. 00 - ~60.00 To tal value of i mprovement s: Total value of t imber Tot a l value of tra ct verage value per acre 60 . 00 3 . 00 �County: District: N LEGEND: S~ope Scale - 1 = 20 chains Rockingham Stonewall �'/ V...1cu.nt 74- c. County: ockin,hom ~istrict : Stone:all -, 9 . T J• • LO.,l.;, .T . Fink l '' - ~o chuins 52'-j � 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 Sipe, Ed - Williams, HE Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context vacant-land.pdf Title A name given to the resource Vacant Land Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Dry 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): 74, 74-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 Vacant Land https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/6ae0599126be8c9d339b0f6b7eb4e2e0.pdf 89d06e619fcd72d06cb99019031825f1 PDF Text Text Rappahannock County NAME OF CLAIMANT #104 - Varner & Spitier Number of Acres : 32 On the east slope of the Blue Ridge - on the drains of Location : the Thornton River miles of rough dirt road to Lee Highway near Sperry Six Roads : ville ; thence seventeen miles to Luray , the nearest shipping point - . - . Sandy clay loam of good depth and fertility , comparatively free from rock Several springs on tract furnish water for stock. Exposure , south and east. The first class grazing land has a good sod and is smooth and free from liis4ar3?ao£:lcacfc:aniAcanrfitioir nfc4imbeK: ' rock and brush The second class has some brush, logs, and rocks and a poorer sod. The third class has much of the surface covered with large rock and considerable brush, blackberries and some moss Soil : . ^ . ^ . Improvements : House: Abandoned, frame , 16x16 " , 2 story, shingled roof , weatherboarded , kitchen 8x10', frame , 24x30 " , frame , shingle roof Barn: History of tract and condition of timber: Only a small portion of the area not lapped , but the Overall Survey is in timber The better trees have been cut , leaving an estimated stand of 7,000 feet , an. . • . Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge : Slope : Cove : 12 Grazing Land : 20 © $5.00 IP60.00 30.00 600.00 $660.00 Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land : Orchard : Minerals : 350.00 14.00 $1024.00 Value of Land : $660.00 Value of Improvements : $ 350.00 Value of Orchard : $ Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit : $ Value of Timber : $14.00 Value of Wood : $ Value per acre for tract : $ 32.00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract : $ . .one TV ri _ -- 7 . TPTYL ' O i tf i ji.UA’. �i OAMJI/C Claim of cVC^ _ _ _ County Virginia, No. At Law. In the Circuit Court of ^ Development rf the State of and The State Co ission on Conservatiefn tioner, vs. 'hA/L.. s County, Virginia, Tendants. more or less. *£** **. 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 saicf 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 two 3 'TOPTH. buildings and improvements : &r. _ & oj£5 O_ 7 +HOAMJL. QA^V. _ JL ^ __/ __ SJLm^ “ _ _ ^ uj'XASUAA^ Q / JVC ^ Virginia, in This land is located about, miles from 5 tXc4wfvu/TlMagisterial District of said County. the 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 ) . ( t 3lJL% *VCZMAJLA/ The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follows: North _ tfl (/ _ //* _ South _ East _ / West. ^^ Ci VA . _ AX J>C IJJTJif-in the I acquired my rigm, title, estate or interest to this property about the year following manner : ^ ^ /3 _ - CCA ! I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereI claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, on is in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is acres of land adjoining the above described tract or I am the owner of . 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 $ r-_ ( 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 ) . /u u/i. Remarks : _ 5 LUSL. 4cw>t. jLAJLcZjioi.. Vtju 0.0 OJL CAXA. Q uac CLAA C as4/ &us/ CCAAJL JUAc, Jya / ax*5. ttcwu Jv^, OrcJt &A.oC , / 00 ~rac/ / u oj rcuJL / 4 l 4~ ' ' ' ). tOAMAs necessary > lTTpcmti < on ks the back it r V 2/ = da; signatures) or my name and mark jjft c hed ^ liereto ) this Witness /* ho VH. , 1930. of . ) < SIAAJIAL> , C l CUAJI * _ t : G .\\r. STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF The undersigned hereby certifies that,ae oatn that mat 1the matters the above named claimant personally appeared before him and madefoath wer are true to the best o his|knowledge nd belief and things appearing in his aboy day of . this .9301 : _ a ^ & ^ • ^ ^^ S _ ~ , ^ of the Coqrt, or Special Investigator or Notary Public, or Justice of the Peace. • ~ �OrvrT) �s / / Revised^ report ' - 6 County: Rappahannook District : Piedmont #104 - Varner & Spitler X Acreage Claimed: 330.4 Assessed: No record $33.00 per acre . . Value Claimed: Area: location: z Deed: No record Deed: 32 Aores On the east slope of the Blue Ridge the Thornton River . - on the drains of Incumbrances, counter claims or laps: A considerable portion of the land c’lai ied by Varner and Spitler lies within that part of the Overall Survey assigned to Julia C overall aid a very small area within that portion assigned to the heirs of Ann P Jolliffe, for which a separate report has been . . prepared , XX Soil: Sandy clay loam of good depth and fertility, comparatively free from rock Several springs on tract furnish water for ;3xposure, south and east stock The first class razing land has a good sod and is smooth and free from IP ck and brush The second class has some brush, logs, and rocks and a poorer sod The third class has much of the surface covered with large rock and considerable brush, black berries and some moss . . . . . - . Roads: Six miles of rough dirt road to Lee Highway near Sperry ville ; thence seventeen miles to Luray, the nearest shipping - . point History of tract nd condition of timber: Only a small portion of the area not lapped, but the Overall Survey is In timber, The better trees have been cut leaving an estimated stand of 7,000 ft• » Bin* » valued at $2.00 per M feet , Improvement s: . House: Abandoned, frame, 16x16 ’, 2 story, shingled roof, weatherbourded, kitchen 8x10’, frame $100.00 Barn; 24x30 * , franc©, sh ngle ro > f 100.00 —— Value of land Type Fg II Fg III Slope . $200.0(5 by tynes: Value Aoreage per acre I $26.00 10.00 19 12 3.00 35 ( continued ) Total Value. $20.0(3 190.00 36 ’0 $246 O0 .. �•2*» « #104 - Varner & Spltler Total value of land $246.00 Total value of Improvements 200.00 Total value of timber 14.00 Total value of tract | 460.00 Average value per acre X — $14.37 - -. Includes the area of laps#104 I and #104 11 XX Note: This description of the soil applies to the entire area claimed by Varner and Spitler . � 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 Rappahannock County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Rappahannock County SNP Records collection consists of 350 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Clifton Aylor and others, and Thirty-Seven Thousand Four Hundred (37,400) Acres of Land, more or less, in Rappahannock County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Rappahannock County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rappahannock County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Bulk of the collection dates 1930 to 1934 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/. Title A name given to the resource Varner and Spitler Description An account of the resource Tract: 104; Location: East Slope of the Blue Ridge-drains of the Thornton River; Cost/Acre: $5.00; Estimate Value: $15.00; Number of Acres: 3.0; Monies Awarded: $15.00 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rappahannock County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF 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 104 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context varner-and-spitler-tract-104 Burns Hoffmann Hopper Joliffe Jolliffee Keys Kirksey Loving McKusick Orme Overall Smith Spitler Varner https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/c3c1a64eebd53ee2e97c0159dcdb6d0e.pdf c643085ce27b7963b0941cf23e3f0e42 PDF Text Text 7 Rappahannock County NAME OF CLAIMANT #104- 1 -Number of Acres : Location : Roads : Soil : Varner cc Spitler Lap on Ann P Jolliffe’s Heirs. . 3 - On the east slope of the Blue Ridge on the drains of the Thornton River. Six miles of rough dirt road to Lee Highway near Sperry ville ; thence seventeen miles to Luray , the nearest shipping - point. Sandy clay loam of fair depth and fertility and comparatively . free from rocks All of the merchantable timber was of timber : condition removeu from tms tract about thirty years ago. History of Tract and Improvements : - Hone. Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage Total Value Value per acre Ridge : Slope : . 35.00 3 $15* 00 Cove : Grazing Land : Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land : Orchard : Minerals : Value of Land : $ 15.00 Value of Improvements : $ Value of Orchard : $ Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit : $ Value of Timber : $ Value of Wood : $ Value per acre for tract : $ 5.00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract : $ Hone. CL3RK . �i OAMJI/C Claim of cVC^ _ _ _ County Virginia, No. At Law. In the Circuit Court of ^ Development rf the State of and The State Co ission on Conservatiefn tioner, vs. 'hA/L.. s County, Virginia, Tendants. more or less. *£** **. 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 saicf 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 two 3 'TOPTH. buildings and improvements : &r. _ & oj£5 O_ 7 +HOAMJL. QA^V. _ JL ^ __/ __ SJLm^ “ _ _ ^ uj'XASUAA^ Q / JVC ^ Virginia, in This land is located about, miles from 5 tXc4wfvu/TlMagisterial District of said County. the 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 ) . ( t 3lJL% *VCZMAJLA/ The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follows: North _ tfl (/ _ //* _ South _ East _ / West. ^^ Ci VA . _ AX J>C IJJTJif-in the I acquired my rigm, title, estate or interest to this property about the year following manner : ^ ^ /3 _ - CCA ! I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereI claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, on is in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is acres of land adjoining the above described tract or I am the owner of . 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 $ r-_ ( 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 ) . /u u/i. Remarks : _ 5 LUSL. 4cw>t. jLAJLcZjioi.. Vtju 0.0 OJL CAXA. Q uac CLAA C as4/ &us/ CCAAJL JUAc, Jya / ax*5. ttcwu Jv^, OrcJt &A.oC , / 00 ~rac/ / u oj rcuJL / 4 l 4~ ' ' ' ). tOAMAs necessary > lTTpcmti < on ks the back it r V 2/ = da; signatures) or my name and mark jjft c hed ^ liereto ) this Witness /* ho VH. , 1930. of . ) < SIAAJIAL> , C l CUAJI * _ t : G .\\r. STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF The undersigned hereby certifies that,ae oatn that mat 1the matters the above named claimant personally appeared before him and madefoath wer are true to the best o his|knowledge nd belief and things appearing in his aboy day of . this .9301 : _ a ^ & ^ • ^ ^^ S _ ~ , ^ of the Coqrt, or Special Investigator or Notary Public, or Justice of the Peace. • ~ �% t CLMMJ 1 f r *c • t v: - f H * i : T> �- $104 1 — Rappahannook County : District : Piedmont Varner and Spltler Lap on Arm P, Jolliffe ' s Heirs X A oreage Claimed : 320.4 Value Claimed : #35.00 Assessed : per acre . Area : Location: . Deed ; Deed : . 5 Aores - on . On the east slope of the Blue Ridge Thornton River Inoumbranoes - the drains of the counter claims or laps ; This is the portion of the Varner and Spitler tract which is overlapped by that part of the Overall Survey which was assigned to the Ann p Jolliffe s . Heirs, . one , ’ - and compar Soil: Sandy clay loam of fair depth atively free from rookp Roads : Six miles of rough dirt road to Lee Highway near Sperry ville ; thence seventeen miles to Luray the nearest shipping point History of " fertility , . . tract and condition of timber : All of the merchantable timber was ' reraove' d " from " t'Ki' s tract about thirty years ago ' " Improvement s : None . Value of land b y types : Value Type sore 3 . # 00 per Acreage ' Slope 3 Total value of laid $9.00 Total value of tract #9.00 #3.00 Average value per X — acre Includes the area of tract #104 and lap ' -11. #104 Total Value #9.00 � 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 Rappahannock County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Rappahannock County SNP Records collection consists of 350 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Clifton Aylor and others, and Thirty-Seven Thousand Four Hundred (37,400) Acres of Land, more or less, in Rappahannock County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Rappahannock County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rappahannock County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Bulk of the collection dates 1930 to 1934 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/. Title A name given to the resource Varner and Spitler Description An account of the resource Tract: 104 - I; Location: East Slope of Blue Ridge-drains of Thornton River; Cost/Acre: $32.00; Estimate Value: $1,024.00; Number of Acres: 32.0; Monies Awarded: $1,024.00 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rappahannock County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF 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 104 - I Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context varner-and-spitler-tract-104-i Spitler Varner https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/5952a9bea489a3433af2dbc563439ec8.pdf fab2c026aa4200fb26b2bff1983dc976 PDF Text Text mtm Rappahannock County NAME OF CLAIMANT — - #104 11 Number of Acres : 286 Location : Roads : Varner & Spitler Lap on Julia C Overall Heirs . Along top of Fork Mountain area. - entirely ./ ithin the Park Six miles of rourh dirt road to Lee Highway near Sperry ville ; thence seventeen miles to Luray, the nearest shipping point - . Soil : Sandy cluj/ loam of good depth and fertility , compara tively free from rock, Several springs on tract furnish water for stock. Exposure , south and east The first class grazing Historyland has a good sod and is smooth and free from rock and brush The second class has some brush, logs, and rocks and a poorer sod The third class has much of the surface covered with large rock considerable brush, blackberries and some moss and ’ . . . . Improvements : . None History of tract and condition of timber: fan bark removed about thirty years ago Fields have been grazed for a good many years Some grazing on the timbered area Timber consists of a mixed oak stand , thinly stocked There numerous dead and dying trees, approximately 136 Id , are ft . 3m , , in all . . . . . . . Acreage and value of types : Types Value per acre Acreage Total Value Ridge : Slope : 135 V 25.00 2675.00' • Cove : 70 10.00 700.00 Grazing Land : 81 30.00 2430.00 Fields Restocking : 23806.00 Cultivated Land : Orchard : Minerals : Value of Land : $ 3805.00 146.00 23951.00 Value of Improvements : $ Value of Orchard : $ Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit : $ Value of Timber : $ 146.00 Value of Wood : $ Value per acre for tract : $ 13.45 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this trapt : $ Hone CLERK �JOL / C l CLAMM^ Claim of U . M ' c / L^ In the Circuit Court of *f Count The State Co ission on Conservatiefn and Develojpmen tioner, vs. __/ » __ ,Virginia, — LSL At No. rf the State of ISAm^more or less. ^ Law. jjia , Fy(L <2^£4 County, Virginia, fendants. 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 IIQ4£ QJ*!?*****IJCOUNTY, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this Court of as his answer to safa petition and to said notice. . My name is 4 h My Post Office Address is y _ AAk 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 _ ra/ y SL _ two > *UL 3 ToerH. buildings and improvements : Or. ^ _ _ _ 2= _ £LQj£ 3. yciAMX . OttA vt. _ cooZST Yoy r -. A ( c_ » _ vw . ^ _ ^ / ^ ^ ^ uj'XAS'UAA^Q / JVC This land is located about, Virginia, in miles from the _ _ jS 4l !fw IlMagisterial 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 ) . (AU jUdLS_ <A/X. ( ^ ^^ t The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follows: North Ajtk .tflL South East _ West. / Jj tl fjt' in I acquired my rigm, title, estate or interest to this property about the year following manner : _ /9 ^ - the r I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereI claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, on is 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 $ r-_ _ .i ( 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 ) . OLX- _ A_GA£<L,_ Q&a# , cL Remarks : AOL^ X. J&SJLXJJLOL. 3 o_ OJL CAXA _ g UUA, & • rxjuULk o / OCXA COO CLAAC*C OLA&ILA UjjL. iy. CX OLATZAJLJ ~ OUXflHsVy CUtAJL ^ OYC4,C*A.OC , rcuJL X cCL-g r UU*. hoM*. 4 ( pQjXPjiA _ ( IMMXJ (A •ks £f necessary on the back ) . > lT bhti < r . MAI U 2/ = da; signatures!or my name and mark tt ied^ liereto ) this Witness A M , 1930. of . 2 * QT. IJOSIAAMS , CUAJL t : G . 1r. STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF_ .- UOAA UiYThe undersigned hereby certifies thatmat 1the matters .ae oatn that the above named claimant personally appeared before him and madefoath wer are true to the best o his|knowledge nd belief and things appearing in his abov day of this .9301 — _ . - L - ^ ^ VAIID y —^ ^ ^ S ^ , ^ ^^ ^ & , - SLA the Coijrtl or Special Investigator or of \§ y -r0 Notary Public, or Justice of the Peace. • �.wiiJ . if , r9ffwo jfiio ,i9tr/ro JITID * 10 S001J _£JtsR - JLKSJ V&3 >\ -. ^* a* ye * 3Z * ^ -AJ v joj v * * &m 5sVj- ': ' 4 wi * JLA -V- l •*» -.- U h / r, an iwrimlo rfoir w o Josi ' ^» : ol\ 1 V- - , ’ JQ 5\ , ^ S> £ > >3N>NV )S(S}U < or. ' SrfOTTOTiSnuJ ftTVNCY . fiO t ^ 9firj*I 9D V09'f 9 ji V) fT •ft ' IO ^ ilduS y * �County: Rappahunnook District: Piedmont - ,7*104 XX Varner & Spitler Lap on . Julia 0 overall X Aoreuge Claimed: 320,4 Yal io Claimed: ^ Heirs Assessed: No record . 335.00 per core Area: . 260 - ores entirely wit hin the ola1ms or lane: . §ountor Ina Spitier Incumbrances . Deed: Along top of Fork Mountain Park rea Location; Deed: No record This is that portion of the tract which lies within th t part of the overall Survey assigned to Julia c overall arriior . . clay loam of good depth and fertility, comparatively free from rock Several springs on tract furnish water for stock# exposure, so ith and ea3t The first class grazing land has n good sod and is smooth nd free from rock und brush The second class ha so a brush, logs, and rocks and a poorer sod The third class has much of tho surface covered with large rook nd considerable brush, blackberries and some moss Loll: SaUdy . . . . . - Six miles of rough dirt roud to Leo Algliwajr near Sporry ville; thence seventeen miles to Luray, the nearest shipping Roads: . point xilstory of tract and condition of timber ; Tanbark removed about thirty years “ago fields have been grazed for a good many yours Some grazing on the timbered area Timber consists of a mixed oak stand, thinly stocked There are numerous dead Approximately 136 uores will out 575 and dying trees bd ft par acre or 73 M• # ft , Dm• » in ail, valuod at $3.00 per M , ft 146.00 . . . . . Improvements: . .. . : . None Value of land by types: Total Value Value per Acreage 11 Fg XI Fg III aore 30.00 20.00 10.00 3.00 55 15 Slope C 330.66 ' 1100.00 150.00 olQ OO . . 2190.66 • (continued ) �- — #104 11 Total value of land Total value of timber Total value of tract Average value per acre X 9, Varner & Spitler lap on Julia C overall’s Helra . 12195.00 146.00 $2341.00 $8.18 includes the area of tract #104 and lap -. #104 1 �xrounty: Rappahannock District: Hawthorne rJ - #248 A . Nicholson, Inez V '*N N \ W \\ . T Nicholson vw II M N\ n a \ w * u/ v / V vT \ ' W If .M.Nicholson # II James Campbell A Ffi « VN O' o l/> . s M Woodard # c LT O <1 -\ \ LEGEND: Cove Orchard Slope Ridge Scale - l” Grazing Land Tillable Land Fields restocking = 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 Rappahannock County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Rappahannock County SNP Records collection consists of 350 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Clifton Aylor and others, and Thirty-Seven Thousand Four Hundred (37,400) Acres of Land, more or less, in Rappahannock County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Rappahannock County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rappahannock County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Bulk of the collection dates 1930 to 1934 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Varner and Spitler Description An account of the resource Tract: 104 - II; Location: Along top of Fork Mountain; Cost/Acre: $13.45; Estimate Value: $3,951.00; Number of Acres: 286.0; Monies Awarded: $3,951.00 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rappahannock County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF 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 104 - II Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context varner-and-spitler-tract-104-ii Spitler Varner https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/Virginia_Court_Clerks_Association_[VCCA]_Records_Oversized_Miscellaneous_Materials/VCCA006_001_010.pdf 2b43ee0a6627577057120f06a1a890c1 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 Virginia Court Clerks Association (VCCA) Records – Oversized Miscellaneous Materials Subject The topic of the resource Virginia Court Clerks’ Association—History Court clerks—Virginia—Societies and clubs Professional associations—Virginia Minutes (Records) Scrapbooks Photograph albums Newspapers—Virginia—20th century Newspapers—Virginia—21st century Description An account of the resource The Oversized Miscellaneous Materials (Series VCCA006) form part of the Virginia Court Clerks Association Records, a collection spanning 1894–2023 that documents the professional and institutional history of Virginia’s clerks of court. This series contains bound volumes of annual convention minutes (1910–1953; 1954–1961), executive committee minutes (1993–2003), photograph albums, and scrapbooks recording association gatherings such as conventions, banquets, and training events. Full-size newspapers and clippings from 1960, 2005, and 2015 provide contemporary coverage of clerks’ legislative initiatives, organizational milestones, and the public profile of the VCCA. The materials highlight the association’s role in fostering professional development, building collegial networks, and shaping policy within Virginia’s judicial system. Originally collected and maintained by the VCCA Historian, these oversized records were digitized as part of James Madison University’s Histories along the Blue Ridge (HBR) project to ensure long-term preservation and researcher access. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Virginia Court Clerks Association, VCCA Historian Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Virginia Court Clerks Association (VCCA); collected and maintained by the VCCA Historian Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1910–2015 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Gideon Schwendeman Alex Click 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. For additional information, see Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Relation A related resource Part of the Virginia Court Clerks Association Records (1894–2023), Series VCCA006; included in Histories along the Blue Ridge (HBR) project, James Madison University Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context VCCA, Series VCCA006 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Virginia, United States 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. 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Title A name given to the resource VCCA Newspapers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960, 2005, 2015 Subject The topic of the resource Clerks of Court Circuit Courts--Virginia News Articles Description An account of the resource Newspaper articles concerning circuit court clerks from 1960, 2005, and 2015 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Virginia Court Clerks Association Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Gideon Schwendeman Alex Click 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. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context VCCA006_001_010 Bingham Bosiger Brown Butler Carter Chatham Cooper Corbin Crewe Dobbins Edwards Evans-Haywood Ferguson Forrester Fraley Francis Hargrove Haymore Helmstutler Hogan Hopkins Jefferson Jett Johnson Mason Maxey May McDougle Moore Nelson Orrock Paxton Payne Peace Pritchett Reeves Rothert Sims Sinnen Small Smith Taylor Ward Ware Warren White Williams Winebriner Wingfield Wittman Yates https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/56e58c2812ff92bc679ae6b84e063622.pdf 86488c38d8274a633266a35880a481ea PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #314 - Via , Hulda Number of Acres: 11 Location: Madison Run . 228 and 229 . u. s . Part outside the Park area . Positions Roads: Two and one- half miles via dirt road to Port Republic , the nearest shippin point . Soil: Sandy loam, cove type of a fair depth and fertility, some scattering loose rock over the entire area . History of Tract and condition of timber: Improvements: None . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value .10 . 00 ~50 . 00 10 . 00 40 . 00 40 . 00 80 . 00 $170 . 00 Ridge: Slope: Cove: 5 Grazing Land : Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land: 4 2 @ Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 170. 00 Value of Improvements: $ 27 . 00 :t;l97 . 00 Value of Orchard : $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 2 7 • 00 Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ 18. 00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ HONE . , ~ ~ <I c_ U'.rrK. I 'I �county: rookinche.. Di strict: s tonew~ll ;31 4 Hulda Via ,1 Acreage Claim.ad : 10 Val ue claimed: Location: ~;es.: Soil: :\.sses ned 11. 80 250,100 n '.. 110 . 00 1:.adison Hun . Fart outside the positions 228 and 229 . Deed 11 . 00 1892 ark \ rea, partition deed u. s . None known, t3andy loam, oovo type of a fatr depth of forti l i ty, nomo scatter i ng loose rock over the entire area. 2};- mile ~ v ia di rt roud to .Fort Republic the neo.rcct shipptng , oads: point. History: This tract has about 5000 f t of s aw timber on 5 acres oonni stinn of Oaks } oplor and inc, also about ~ e ds of 20 . 00 fuel rood per • sa,1 timber 5000ft ,t. ,! 4 . 00 'l . 30 15 c ords of wood ~ 50 ¢ p er cord 27.50 I;n:provements : None . Value of land by types: Areu ~ J~ Cove Ti l l able Value per acre 5 30 15 2 4 Fr Total value of land rrio t a l Vnlue ~25 . 00 60 .. 00 60 . 00 .'1~5 . 00 ,• 145 . 00 Tot al val ue of imJ rovements Total value of timber Tota l value or tra ct Avorugo value per ~1cre 27 . 50 bl ?2 . oO ..,, 15 . G6 l 2l> �Jounty: ,oc::i nthuri. J.!..s.,,ict: ..:,tune 1all COVt:} il lab::.. ,3c . . .i..e - 1 ' 1 !JS uOC :ill[; ~v e:ll'-4ins � 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 Sipe, Ed - Williams, HE Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context via-hulda.pdf Title A name given to the resource Via, Hulda 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): 314 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 Via https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/e082710ca0c8d712e19f93c72db82e34.pdf a08cd1c4c56d05e31f6995f538631770 PDF Text Text ROCKING&' 1 COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #315 - Via , Mary c. Number of Acres: 11½ Location: lv1adi son Run. 229 and 230 . Entirely within the Park area . u. s. Positons Roads: Two and one- half niles via nirt road to Port Republic, the nearest shipping point . Soil: Sandy loam, c ove type and a good depth of fertility , some loose scattering rock over the emtire area . History of Tract and condition of timber: Improvements: None . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: $10 . 00 $85 . 00 15 . 00 45 . 00 ~130 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: 3 11½ Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals : Value of Land: $ 130 . 00 50 . 00 $180 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit : $ Value of Timber: $ 50 . 00 ValueofWood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ 15 . 64 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . - -~- -~ ~ -~-~~-~_cm~. M �Claim tioner, vs. _____________________________________________________________________________ _ --------------------- .---75) ----/4------- -----------------. - .· .---------------------County, V1rgmia, Defendants. more or less, of land m_f f ~ ~ ----~ The undersigned, in answer to the peti ·An of the Statel:fo-mmission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, d in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the fii·~g of tai~ petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court oL -~~~-~ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this · as his ans er to sai~Jtition ~ to 1~d notice. :; :::eo;;;~!+:JjJ~~::e_~:::::::::::::::::: 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.Z.LLa cres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: ___________________________________________________________ _ / ----------Virginia, in · s about_ ___ £ ____ miles from __ ~ is locat d~ T 1h <---. th __ _______ 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 ~iEE ~~- ~~~:~~ The land ~ t the above describetJl'tract or parcel of land are as follows: r:~:~----:::::.:::::::____ ,d-~------------ ---------------------------West ______________________________________________________________________________ _ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year_______ ___ in the = ~/4/2__L_-:__1:17_hc_ ~1 : ~-- 1#~~-~~c~~-~~~~~;~~-;;~~-~~;~-;~; i~~~~~~::~~~~~~~~ $_J.P..~ef!..~!?__q__ , I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is-$-=~f-...2.rP_,?._0_,4:7 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). on is Remarks· -- ------------------------ -------------------- - ------------------------ --- ------ ------------------------ -------------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). day Witn~ss_m7 signature (or my name and m rk attached hereto) this ___ j_r=-_____ ;~~;~~;;;~;;, ~t~H~ rtz ~~: .--~~~--+--- 1 The un~~~~1d hereby certifies that_ _~·-t'-2:-_1-_Y~---- -------- -------------the above 'fr~tt, aimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters and things appe ing in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, this___ _j · t:_ _____ day ,£.__/?___ oL- 7 : ~---::~-1~~ ~ ---- ______ cial Investigator or Cle~f~-Court, or e of the Peace. Notary Public, or Ju '¾,I �I I county: Rockingham District: Jtonewall · 315 - ?•.ary C •. Via • creage Claimed: O"' OSsed 11~ n Value Claim.ed: Soil: J arti tion Deed vll0,00 II 1892 r,:ndison 1un . 'Entirely 11 i t hin the r ark area, pos itions 229 a nd 230 . Loc11 t1on: Laps:_ )eed 11::- u. s . None known. Sandy loam, cove type nnd a good de. th of fertility, some looso scatter ing Rook over the entire area . 2-: miles via dirt roud to Roads: ort Be _i., ublie, the nea rest shi1 p ing point • 11.istory: The merchantuble s aw timber has been removed fcom po.rt of this t :r act. Thero still remains about 10,000 ft of Oak timber on 4 • . 4.00 ier · 3 eds of fuel wood f er • • on 8 acres ... o. r, 40 , 00 oO per cdl2 . 00 , 52.00 Irqprovements: Y.al ue ~ None. at l:9:no.; . by tyres: Vo.luo reago . Cove per, acre 8 4 Fr 'l'ota l v luo or land: 5 15 To tal \ - Value ,;'i40 . 00 60 .00 ~100 . 00 'i otal vnlue of i mpr ovel'!l.ents .,. Total value f timber Total vnlue of tr~Ct 1 .cvoro.ge vulue ner ucre . .oo 152 . 00 1 2 . 6? rn �/31.J - ~ Viu . County: .1ockinr;ham District: Stone.mll \ .:uld1.... ,, '}-1\, 1).- ~ Vi rper ,, ~~ ov, - Rosto c 'ine 2l e 0c le - 1 1 1· ins N � 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 Sipe, Ed - Williams, HE Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context via-mary-c.pdf Title A name given to the resource Via, Mary C. 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): 315 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 Via https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/874caa36a3c7b4a2b842605095c8b058.pdf 4b75f10404f9e1e915cda9ec002185bb PDF Text Text ROCKINGHli.M COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #301 - Via , Robert Number of Acres: 20 Location: Madison Run . Entirely within the Park area . Roads: Two miles via dirt road to Port Republic , the nearest shipping point . Soil: Slope type level and fairly smooth and of a fair Sandy loam. depth and fertility . History of Tract and condition of timber: The merchantable saw timber has been removed . The remaining stand consists of small mixed oaks and short leaf pine . Improvements: None . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 14 @ $5 . 00 $70 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: 6 10 . 00 20 60 . 00 $130 . 00 Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $130 . 00 Value of Improvements : $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ 50 • 00 Value per acre for tract: $ g • 00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . 50 . 00 $180 . 00 �i1/. __ ~---------------- -, ------------------------------- Claim oL_ rJf,-j._,_.,..j- _ In the Circuit Court o L ~ ~ - - ~ - : _______ County, Virginia, No.!.8':.?::i., At Law. The State Commission on Conservation a_m! Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. __ ~ 1-rl. t2L-/c ~ _~ ~ J __ J~'-.J-& I _ ~ ___ _ ~IA._>/, ------------------------------------".:;;i/. ---------------------------------------------- more or less, of land in_~_0:+f:. . __~_____ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petklon of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the &~~l~~<;l)ltition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ _______ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this i_d.,~~t~----- as h:ym;,::: :: s a ~ n i My post office address is ___ toiv:t:tice. ¢1":j ___ ------------------------ /2.t--_~______ .:-:_ ____________________________ _ 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: ___ _=: _________________________________ _____________________ _ L~ _______ ~ ,,-{_ ~ ------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- .;;,i1nd is located about_ __ :-1,._.co ____miles from ___ ~ - - - - - - -----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.) - - - - - - - - ~ - - ~ - - ~ ~ - ~ - ~ --~4 J _ ~~ --------The land °'~n1ers adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North ___ ~"'::7/"i:::: -------------------------------------------------------- South ____ _f-_~---- ~ti ,_..,I..-{___, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - East ______________________________________________________________________________ _ <Jic ~-- 2/'- L West _______ ~ ~ ----------------------------------------------1 acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year__~?-~_L __ in the following manner: -------°? ~ ff - ~d~ _ffe',0\__ -----------,------------------------------ I claim that t11e t,9tal value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $---*-~~_'.7:':": __ . I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or in~st, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $__ .z.A=:~_...'.-:= __ . 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~ 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:r;;_=~-:~~~:~~r1~3'.t my name and /4T)t,;;;~~~}-~~~s~~~~?~~~~~~~~~:~ STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF __ ~d~~ 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 ______ j_f--~---day of_ ___ J~t/ f- / 1lf /3 r"· ,j ~ . I r:_~-~----~--, 19~.. ~~ / ~ --- L ~ ofth~-c~-;rt~-~8-p;ci~-=-i-~;tig~~;-~ ublic, r-JHstice-<>f-the-Peace. �-._/ I· 1 d: d 100 •.o t.l: di on ' • nttrely :w1t. in 11 000.00 k .. . <>t 1 l . one lrno n ., ndy l · t r 11\ 2 ... 20 l .. lo a tr,1' 1 'fi dirt rod t o V l ort n t ·r1y d 0 bli c d • H o. lop eld oc ~t .oo c.oo · a. o .50. Io'\_ �County: -..J I District: Rockingham Stonewall /i30l• V1e., Robt . H. , N LEGEND: Slope Scale• 1": Fields roe tocking 20 cha.ins 1113 � 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 Sipe, Ed - Williams, HE Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context via-robert.pdf Title A name given to the resource Via, Robert 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): 301 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 Warner https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/ec0be9926b16ee3c890da16f6041b593.pdf 45e22fa3388efd41edadb2ef04d93ed7 PDF Text Text Rockingham County Voter and Election Records Collection Summary Title Rockingham County Voter and Election records Collection Reference Code Ver Inclusive Dates 1870-1980 Document Creator Extent Genre/Format Electoral Board, Election Officers, County and City Registrars 13 boxes; 9 bound volumes; 7 linear feet Official Court Records Language Location English Rockingham County Circuit Court Archives Access and Restrictions This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) Bio/Historical Note Every city and county in the Commonwealth of Viginia has a three-member Electoral Board, which ensures fair, free, open and transparent elections. The Electoral board for each city and county then apppoints election officers, who serve as the adminstrators of polling sites and ballot collectors. County and City Registrars are also appointed by the Electoral board to ensure the registration of qualified voters in the Commonwealth. �Scope and Content There are nine different series within this record group. This first consists of voter registration books, which date from 18701952. These were broken into three divisions. There is a separate volume for white males registred to vote between 1870 and 1952, white females registered to vote from 1920-1952 and a volume for both male and female (one they were granted the right to vote) African Americans registered to vote from 1870-1952. These forms contained information such as the date of the registration, the persons name, date of birth, age, occuption, residnence, naturalization status and precinct transfer (if applicable). The second series, List of Voters Registered, are loose records indicating individuals registered to vote in specific precincts. These are seperate from the bound volumes, as the formats differ, but it is not clear how they were used differently. Registration of Oaths is the third series. They are natuarally divided into two subseries Male Registrations (19191944) and Female Registrations (1920-1944). These were to be filed by the Registrar along with the Books of Registration. The oath established the individuals right to register under the Constitution and laws of the state. Series four contains voter transfer applications made to the Registrar by the individual wishing to transfer precincts. There is no information provided as to the reason for the request. Registration Laws is a series comprised on documentation relating to the Voter Registration Code of 1958. Certificates of Registration make up the sixth series of this record group. These were certificates used to certify a previously registered voter could transfer to a newly established voting precinct. Information listed includes the name, race, date of birth, age and occupation of the individual, as well as their former voting precinct. The Abstract of Votes series is divided into subseries for Local Elections, State Elections, National Elections, Elections on Legislature, and Special Elections. Special Elections refer to (but is not limited to) elections for Soil Conservation officers, elections on the change of municipal government, and bond issues. General Election Records consists of various records that did not fall into clearly into previously established series. This includes Special Election Records, Newspaper Articles, Electoral Board Correspondences. Finally, Series nine containts Voting Precinict Petitions (1915-1931). These petitions were brought by local individuals requesting the establishment of a new voting precinct or the revision of precinct boundary lines. Arrangement All series, and subsequent subseries, are arranged chronologically. Index Terms Subject Voting--1870-1980, Voting--History--20th century, Voting registers--Virginia, Voting registrars, Voting rights, Rockingham County (Va.), Rockingham County (Va.)--Genealogy--Sources, Rockingham County (Va.)--History-Sources. Processing Informtaion/Archival These records have been maintained continuously by the Circuit Court. The electoral board was required to submit abstracts History of votes for each election to the Clerk of the Court for safe keeping. �Contents Series I Voter Registration Location White Male Vol. 1 White Male Vol. 2 White Male Vol. 3 White Male Vol. 4 White Male Vol. 5 White Male Vol. 6 J.001_001_001 J.001_001_002 J.001_001_003 J.001_001_004 J.001_001_005 J.001_001_006 White Female Vol. 1 White Female Vol. 2 White Female Vol. 3 J.001_001_007 J.001_001_008 J.001_001_009 "Colored" Male and J.001_001_010 List of Voters Location Box I Folder I: List of Voters Registered 1913-1944 C.005_003_003 Series III Registration of Oaths Location Box I Folder II: Registration of Oaths-Male C.005_003_003 Folder III: Registration of Oaths-Female C.005_003_003 Voter Transfer Location Series II Series IV �Box I Series V Folder IV: Voter C.005_003_003 Registration Laws Box I Folder V: Voter Series VI Certifications of Registrations C.005_003_003 Folder VI: Certificates of Registration (1904- C.005_003_003 Series VII Abstract of Votes Location Box II Box III National Elections National Elections C.005_001_003 Box IV Local Elections (1914Local Elections (1962- C.005_003_003 C.005_003_003 Box V On Legislature (1912- C.005_003_003 Box VI Box VII Box VIII Box IX Box X State Elections (1913State Elections (1919State Elections (1932State Elections (1945State Elections (1960- C.005_001_003 C.005_001_003 C.005_001_003 C.005_001_003 C.005_001_003 Special Elections (1945Unspecified (19171921) C.005_003_004 Box I Box XI C.005_003_004 �Series VIII Box XI Box XII Series IX Box XII General Election Folder Title: Special Election Records, 1914 Folder Title: Special Election Records, 1934 Folder Title: Special Election Records, 1936 Folder Title: Special Election Records, 1938 Folder Title: Special Election Records, 1942 Folder Title: Special Election Records, 1943 Folder Title: Special Election Records, 1944 Folder I: Newspaper Folder II: Electoral Board Correspondences Voting Precinct Folder Title: Voting Precinct Petition, 1915 Folder Title: Voting Precinct Petition, 1916 Folder Title: Voting Precinct Petition, 1923 Folder Title: Voting Precinct Petition, 1931 Location C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 Location C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 C.005_003_004 �� 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/. Title A name given to the resource Voter and Election Records PDF Finding Aid Subject The topic of the resource Rockingham County Voter and Election Records Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Printable PDF https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/5b1f51a95e8d424694ecfb6cea1c8d5b.pdf 0da0663b950e181f9222c327dd96482c PDF Text Text NAME OF CLAIMANT 7tl)qo· .-..J.,. - r rnar ) ,,U,._,;~-V -- - • ...... e Number of Acres: 3 • Location: lJ . S. ?osi t ions ~13 ~nu ~14 . Roads: Three nilE · via c'irt roe.ct to Port _,er,u lie , th_, nm.rest shi Y"\ ;>L1 po~nt • Just u ar:., 11 c..1.0 mt Lnsi ue t:e Prr~ ureo, r~st outside . Soil: :.....'1c1 ::..ric clu:r loan . C"'lope t:rpe :.ind. is o · ,. f::iir de.::-Jth u.nc. fertility . History of Tract and condition of timber: ...~ll tl 8 r.ierclmntc.ble sa I tir·ber has bae,.1. ::.".,1ovec.... :;."1·u, t::i. tr ct . rr'he renainin'"; ... t~.nd consists of snall o· ks :. ml sor. e short le~f pine . ......bout 4 cords of fue l,1ooct >er 1..cre on tLre -cres. 12 cords 1.:0od. Improvements: ,.,one . Acreage and value of types: Acreage Types Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: Cove: 3 :10 . 00 Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ "'0 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard : $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ 10 • 0 0 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ ·1 . 1e. ~ - ~•V~.~.::. \ \\ �• Co mt!/: •\ c ::i 10 lu 1a :Jist.dot: ;,ton 11 o •• ~·. u. ·: •• o , er • _ill: l\fL • Hem s: q i llUd 1 1011 2!.~ , at. ou. i e., 2 ""· Clay l 0 . .;ilo tt 000. 00 typ "a nnt! 1n ll or B ~ o:m\ 1n81d tl !'r.1r depth ilc• vi·, dirt roo.d to Jiis or,: !.11 o:r'U '.:o v, 1. J8 .oo Tot l 0.00 ', Ot Al '~ot l ~00 • 0 B.00 rr ,ltl ahee �f?,9G - County : · ·O ckingh' m District : -vona ~11 N ::::d,c..rds ::....gner Slo-:,e ,ca..:.n - l ' .,o 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 Sipe, Ed - Williams, HE Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context wagner-m-h.pdf Title A name given to the resource Wagner, M. H. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: U.S. Positions 213 and 214 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): 296 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 Wagner https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/5364115a4dbe9ffb51cb722c47b26b19.pdf 0a41151077593afe7c091832c3d73c73 PDF Text Text NAME OF CLAIMANT 'l.-,gr...., o Number of Acres: Location: Roads: -- Soil: T, .,c..gner , - .t' • -r., .1: . - et :.1 18 :i.Te ,r T_T. :J . ?osi.tio1S ~1.3- 213- 314. Entirely 1ithL1 tl:e Purlc -re_. ,,,wo u.nl one-hJ.l..:. . r,ile3 71.... , i:rt ro:.tc: to _-ort '1e_,ublic , t:1: ns res~ Eh ip_,i g point . .3lO'J8 -t:r::-e, not TIUC:1 de_;ith _he gr:.....zi-:i.f 1 '1d :111s 13. f&i rly ·ood sod. . ...,• nd~r clc.:r lo .... n . ~JD(i f,31·tili ty . History of Tract and condition of timber: n 0 -nerch'..1ntc. 1Jle sm, tinb .r on this tract . ...bout ~j cords fuelwood per acre on tl1e '.rooded areu . 24 cords wood. Improvements: Eone . Acreage and value of types: Types Value per acre Acreage Total Value Ridge: Slope: 8 C '1:0 . Ov Cove: Grazing Land: 10 20 . 00 200 . 00 Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 310 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 1:2.00 ../2.?7 . Qi,_; Value of Orchard: $ :3 ;j • 0 0 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ 1 >. 00 Value per acre for tract: $ l :.3 • J 8 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ ~ :~v~....:. ~ - ~ '. _·c.... ltft, �- w::;. _ JrLI. . of _____ , ____j,-vI__________________________________________________________________ Claim In the Circuit Court oL ___ .Ro.c.k ingb ________ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. ________ ::~ ._ ___ a llJ'U'_,__B_.__·.1. ...___ ~_g_I}~J.:._@.P_d_J,._!__ i _!..__ :-_~gD_~!'____________ _ __ In t:te ·,ratter _of _a'bout _li'iahteen _L 18_ ) _of _land in_ tbe Pa.rk _Area __ more or less, of land in __F.c..G.· J_ GB..A:..L ____________ 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 __ F_q_g~_i_l}'2:h_~ ---------- County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is __ N .__ L ._ ___agner A Q'ent_ for the _e.f ore1;ai d _na rti ea ______ _ L _ __ My post office address is __ ~'------~.9_:rt_E.~!?1l__ l.j._Q.1__Yi.r_g_!_p_i_; ~---------------I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ ____ .113..-_________ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: _______________________________________________________ ____ _ __________________ l. nclo _ e d ~Y- i:r oo d _wire_ fence ·--------------------------------- us 1an d 1s Tl· · 1ocat ed a b out _____ P:.Y.o... ____ m1·1es f rom ____ P Qr.t___ R_e~_u n b_____ lic4-________v·1rgmia, ·· m · the_S.t.on.e..w. l 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.) -----------------------------n-~--- f.o..re i..d-pa.rti.e_~ __ r.e..._go.i.nt__awner.il.. _o.f_ __ _ .ai..fl--r-rop.~r.t_y:_ in- .f..ee_ irr~--1 ~-,--anj_.f.o .r__wh..or _J__ rr'~ - ~2_e..n.:t____________________ _ The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follows: North __ J;. • _J •__ rown_____ __ ___ _______________________________________________ __ ___ _ South ____• _L . _Nicho 1 a__________________________________________________________ _ East ___J • __ .__and_C. -~_. _Shul ~ r ----------------------------------------------West_ ___ A L_ .J ._ J'own __ ~nd... J. _J . _ Nichola __ F.;t . _______ _____________________ _ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year_J .9_9_g ___ in the following manner: ____________________-y purcha.se from_J. _ .r . _Nichol a ii _ and wife __ 1._!!~~------ af..o.re a i....d_~.o...in t. _a wne.r -----------------------------------------------------------I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $_ P_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 $_ ~QQ~.9_Q___ __ __ . I am the owner oL ____ Jlon.e.. _____ 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 $__'t!o.ne ___________ . (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 lie should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks· ____________________ :::L eat imat e _on _the_ vali.le _of _thi a _land,___ _ i deten· ined v the amount I re lli:.e yearly from i.ame, .and there fore, t h e intereQt on ~id an.ou nt would 1: e ~ufficient to compeniiate rr_~ _.f_q_~__t1.!~--Y~~t1Y_1.9_~~~-f!_.9_!2 ___~!si_!~A9-~---o.r__ .c.cur.ate__cteAc..rip.ti.on____ _ !__l[Q..!J_e. _?_!__ ±~~..!-------------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). Witness my signature (o . r my name anJ;:ma.;,IJ,,¥ttached hereto) this __6.:t.h _________ day ~-~~--r!. ___ ~-f!(~---w.-/f:-~Mv--ci:-~f/4~- 0L ____;Lm1:u:~------, Y:WSt. 19 31 (JI/ STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF___ £t_Q.Q~.J.J1Ufl_-¥l~-- - --------, To-wit: /"" The undersigned hereby certifies that_ ____N_._ ___•_____ ~p_e_L __ __ __ _________ _____ ____ __ 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 owled~e and belief, this __ §Jh. ____________ day oL.J_@1l_~ry__ i~-~i~, 1981). __ Special I~;;L;;a:.-or Clerk- <>f th-e -Cot-trt, -or Notary Public, er Justice of the P0aae. �---County: .oc kingh Di strict : Stonewall ti 29~ " . -· ~ ·c.gner, et ul Aaseaa d VRl · e Clai1 ed : Location: I nc 800 . 00 .1:·ear · • n. Deed 18 tt 90. 00 " ,}ositione 212 - 213- 214 . brances, count er cl a i ms or laps : unt irely 2 l / 2 r1iles v i dirt road to ort ditton of ti•be~ : liis t orJ c ords fuel 17 ithin t h ood t h , nd f ertili ty. 1 2 . 00 . , 20 . 00 Val o of l and by types: Value !l.l?! Slope r zing per acre RC s.oo 8 20. 00 L 18 o t 1 v lue o · 11 :ad o t l v l e of i mprov ti ,er .. otal , value 24. 00 200. 00 224 .. 00 . :,24. 00 onta The point . ,:o 1 erchont ble s a timber on tht e r acr . on t h wooded ~re. c tter ed tr ii t t re s . ,\er 1906 ark area. e ublic, t he • arost shi pp i 50¢ per e d . lw,roTemente: 108.00 Hone kno n "andy clay lo • !.,,iope t ype . Not much d azing l n d has a f i rly good sod. :\oad : 18 20 . 00 12.00 256. (,0 '4. ~2 �_#293~ Wagner, et al . ~ .F. County: Distri ct: }_toclr.:ingham Stonewall N W. J . Downs LEGEND: Slope Grazing Scale - 1" : 20 chains '105' � 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 Sipe, Ed - Williams, HE Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context wagner-w-f-et-al.pdf Title A name given to the resource Wagner, W. F. et al Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Near U.S. Positions 212-213-214 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): 293 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 Wagner https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/Madison_County_SNP_Records_Court_Proceedings/mcsnp_walker-ls-tract-318.pdf 3a07921da93624d341bbdcfa5a36cf0a 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 Madison County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Madison County SNP Records collection consists of 363 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. D.F. Anderson and Others, and Fifty-Five Thousand Acres of Land, More or Less, in Madison County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Madison County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930-1934 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Walker, LS Description An account of the resource Tract(s): 318 Items in Land File: <ul> <li>Claimant Worksheet</li> <li>Tract Assessment</li> <li>Owner Claim</li> </ul> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"></a> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF 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 318 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MCSNP_Walker-LS-tract-318 Walker https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/Madison_County_SNP_Records_Court_Proceedings/mcsnp_wallace-el-tract-316-316a.pdf c31e0a2fff8f924a340c7a35362aa895 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 Madison County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Description An account of the resource The first series in the Madison County SNP Records collection consists of 363 files related to the court proceedings from The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. D.F. Anderson and Others, and Fifty-Five Thousand Acres of Land, More or Less, in Madison County, Virginia. This was a court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire privately held land located within the boundary of Madison County in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Within the boundaries of eight counties, the state of Virginia, in collaboration with the Federal government, used eminent domain condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents in this collection are the legal proceedings for each individual tract of land that made up the one court case. In most cases, the individual case files consist of property surveys, assessments for the value of the land and improvements, and claims by the owner of the property. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930-1934 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/. Title A name given to the resource Wallace, EL Description An account of the resource Tract(s): 316, 316a Items in Land File: <ul> <li>Claimant Worksheet</li> <li>Tract Assessment</li> <li>Owner Claim</li> </ul> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Madison County Circuit Courthouse Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"></a> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>. 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