235 20 4769 https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/025a58ac22b8472807f39dc9acc7ad2a.pdf 9d1f90e9fe7be95ab0ea5bd2a540eac6 PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM CO · ll ers, c. Number of Acres: 9½ is entirely Island Ford. Location:- area . Roads: 2 mile Soil: Slope • ty road to Island Porcl There is no merchantable timber :on of timber: History of Tract w condi thi s trac~. ad it has been repeatedly burned over . None . Improvements: Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value $5 . 00 $47 . 50 Ridge: @ -- Slope: Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land : $ 45 . 00 Value of Improvements : $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ ft Timber : $ 20000 --.50 -$67 ,d: $ 20 . 00 c,.r tract: $7 . 10 • · "ffl " the taking of this tract : $ None ~. //&__, D' _CLERK �r==--=========:======::::::i·;-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=---=---=--=~ ----- ----- --, Claim o f _ _ ~ - - - - ~ ~ ~ ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In the Circuit Court ofLW- --b~~o unty, Virginia, No, ________ , At Law. The State Commission on C~;;;;;tiTn ;nd Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs.~r-~~----~--------------------------- --------~--~---4t"kt.L--~---~.------------------------- more or less, of land in ____________________________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Developme t of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon th' li g of s id petiti and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit ~__,._v.l!"li.:-:7.:~ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to· file this Court o __ _ as h~ya::: ~: ~ i t i o ~ ~ : TY ~ L - - - - - - ---------__.;?n--~,__!!f.._.P'_.Qu=4t • __ ~My post office addr~ss 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__;l_: !£. ________ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvement s: ___________________________________________________________ _ from _J~- f ~irgini a, in This land is located about_/_d ____ miles the~~M agisteri al 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 describe<}- abo,,ve.) ____________________ J~--~,-- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------ .~o-~:= r~-~-~~' -~~~~-a :~~1-o~ ~-~~-~~ ~~-t~~~ :::~t~h~ ~ __ U / ~ - - ---------- ------------ ------------ ----------East_(/ ~- ~ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ West_..k t/_~ ~~----- -------- ---------- ------------ ------------ ---I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year _.,1-..,!%..tD.n the following manner: South __ -------- -------- ---~-~~ -------- -------- -------- ------I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvement s thereon is $-J..:J._()_,~----· I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvement s thereon is $_1,_'J_~ ----· I am the owner ofL/.::!£_ _______ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $_/.___£_'()_.~----· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks·- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ - ' ------------ ------------ ------------ -------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). day Witness my signature (or my name and mark at~a<j}ied hereto) !his ____ oL__ ~_2 _____ ~lrJ;t-- ;,»931, oF'lrh ~~--~~~---- - - -- ------ To- It H~, COUNTY OF____ STA~ _ __ 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______ ~..7~ -------- ;i-]______ day o L - - ~ - , ~ - £ · - ~ - - - Clerk of the Court, or Special Investigator or No~~~~ �--. J County: oolc1nt!hel".:l :::t:rio ": tone~ .ta .l · J ... neod Vu. uo_ ClaimetH 23? . so ' !'6c. : 10 ".. . ( inl r! ted. acr ) l~f~5 :? Liles eaot of I ·land -·01·<1. This troot 1 - ont11~01y r,1 thin t..'10 ·ark nr a . 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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 Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context sellers-c-h.pdf Title A name given to the resource Sellers, C. H. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Two miles east of Island Ford 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): 200 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 Sellers https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/8e181dc1511e6bb3e0f2ee048d1ecb9c.pdf 1aae71a32b6bdfd3e08be068fe5a3cda PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #207 - Sellers , E. B. Number of Acres: 258 Location: Roads: Soil: One mile east of Is l and Ford on Two Mile Run . One mile over county road to Island Ford . Slope . History of Tract and condition of timber: This tract of timber land has · culled and most of the chestnut oak has been peeled However , there is a stood of merchanta ble timber in on Two Mile Run, )onsisting of white oak, mixed oak Improvements: been for bark. the hollow and pine . NONE . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value 3. 00 5 . 00 $513 . 00 Ridge: Slope: (burned) " (Unburned) 171 8? @ 435 . 00 Cove: $948.00 Grazing Land: Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals : ValueofLan d: $ 948. 00 Value of Improvements: $ 10?0.00 Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals : $ 684 . 00 Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ $270 2. 00 1070 . 00 Value of Wood: $ 684 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 10 . 4 7 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE. ----~---AV~~-~~-~ CLERK. 7 �Claim In the Circuit Court of____ -=~~vL1.a,.,.,,~ __ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. ·· :-~:.:,taV~-------------------~ ~~1~:~: ~ 0 ~~ -~~ . ' . ~ --- ~ ________ 'l> __-f~----------------more or less, of land in~ l J... ... ,L,J~-~ -----County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the £;iit7~ = ;fth~ 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 etition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court oL ______ _ __________ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as h:yan::: ::_:~~J:i~~~:~~ ~- ~ -------------------------------- J/.~----------------- --- My post office address is _____ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract OJ,J1~~cel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ __~ _~ _,,._'9--:::~f.G_acres, on which there are the following buildings and-improvements: __ J&~~-f -~ -~ --~t.J ------------------------------------------------- ~ - : ' --------------------------- This land.is. located about_ __ L _______ 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.) ----------11-~ ----~ / ·--------------------------------------The land o,vners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follows: North __ W -.uJ.L.&J.....~/ --------------------------------------------South ___ 'T ·A _~ __~ ~ ------------------------------------East _.A.J._½.J....),,:.&.8J·,-->-JJ-.. - ~ ---------------------------------------West __ ~ _) ~ ·--------------------------------------- --I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year_.LJ>L_8_in the following ma~ --~ -f ----------------------------------------------------__·------------------I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereoo on is $_ Lt1.QQO_~ - - -· 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 $2.._.uZ>__'::::_ ______ . I am the owner of __~__ __acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $- - ~ ----------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). . ___ Remarks: -~ --.L.0_6_-~ --tn--~ --~ -~ --~ -:::(-~ ~ ~--~ -~ --'---~ au - ~ 3 2 ' ~ -~ ~ ~ ., co - ClO c:-:: C - ~ ~ __ {_G,.b___~ __o--»-- z- ~ - - --~ ---~ --~ ~ -- ~~~ - ~~~:/4,- ~ - - q - £ _ ~ ----- -- (Continue remarks if necessary on ~ back). Witness my signature (or my name and mar!5-,attacheS7h;J~to) ~his __ __~ __ ______ day It :T~T~ ~;-~I - -~~~. ~-OF_~C----~ ~~-~~-~~~-;;-------------:t, ~ -· ""T1 rt, ~ -~ ~ 25, 0 § 0 , ~-~ q-. Ct/} . 0 < EB' ?' ~ - · The undersigned hereby certifies that_ __ _.E_.._____-:. --~~~ the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters an_d thing~ a2 pe,ring in his abo~ e r are true to ~ the best of his knowledge and belief, th1s __ ___ day of___2 ____.______ --, J 9oe. CS{_'v-_____ --~~ -~- ~ ---- ----------------------------C--½erk of Ure _Oourt;-or-:Special-Investigator-or Notary Public, or-J.ygti-ee--of the J2eac&-- 3¼ �County: Rock1ne;han Dietriot: Stonewall #2p7 ... ,Sellers; E. B ., Aorec.e;e Cle.ined: 266 A-2 R. 9.6 P. Value Clained: 01000.00 . aseoaedt . 266 . 90 A. Assessed: Deed: 266 . 90 A (1919) Deed: Deed of Area, partition 258 A. ' Location: One r.1ile ea.at of Island Ford on Two Mile Run .. Soll: Slope . Roa.do: One tlile over county road to Island Ford . tract and condition of tinber: Thia tract of tiober lana has been ouilea and noet of the chestnut oak baa been peeled for bark. However, .there ia e etand of neronantable tinber in the hollow on Tro ile Run. consisting of wite oak, nixed oak and pino esticated to out 1250 bd. ft. per ncre on an area. of 171 acres , tho unburned portion of the tract . The stur:1page value ia eotit:1.ated@ $8 . 00 per M. · Tinber: 214 , 000 bd. ft. ; 8 . 00 per M. •• J l7l2 . 00 l,368 cord~ of fuclwood } 50,t per cord ....... 684 . 00 J2396 . 00 Ipprovenento : Mone . Value of land by tx~es: ~ Slope (unburned) Slope (burned) Acrea5e Total value of land Total value O·f ti'tlber Total value of trnct Average value per acre l?l 87 ,Value l!er acre Total . 05 - 00 $855. 00 l . 50 2S'8 990 . 00 2396 . 00 ~3386 . 00 .,13. 12 Value 135 . 00 ~990. 06 �'--- //=307 - .Sellers , ,., J • ..I.. • county: Rockinch~~ District : s--one n,..Ll N .... mu· e ::edrick Jelleru . Se Llers rr . Earrison ... _.., 1ie ·~. Hcci rich. Dr . f. . :r. Sellers $_ 01J8 c L: - 1' - ~o c .• i '1s �IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKI:.:JGI-B.M COUN'l'Y, VI:lGI:HA. ST \TE CO.HIS :iION ON CONSSRV \.TION o: D~VJLOP.Mi£NT FOR TH~ ST '.'l'..'!J OF VIRGIHIA, PE'r rr IONER v. RE3P0N.uEJTS CASSANDR \ LA ISON 'i.TKi l S and others, On this, th.e p.tJ~y of Vecember, 1933, came ;I . W. Sellers and Kockingham nati )nal Bank, executor of the last will of E . B. Selle s, and on their motion , le~ve is given themto file their ap lication for the p~yment to them c£ the sum of ;p5573.00, the dffiount of the award set out in thu judgment of condera..YJ.at ion for tract No. 179, heretofo1·e p.:iid into court . And it appearing from the nport of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners heretofore filed in this cause, and in the petition for judgment and conde:nn-.t ion enterad her0 in on the_ _ _d..iy of Novo.!'lber, 1933, that in the opinion of petitioner, the sa.id I . ,l. Sellers and .!£ . B. Sellers are invested with superioL· or better right or cl im of title in and to the said tr~ct of land No . 179, and that the record of this cause does not disclose any denial or dispute by any pi:1.rty or person in interest as to the title to the oaid tract No. 179, or to the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof . And it further appe-1rin6 from the application of the act.id .1. • • Se 1lers and Rockingh-.i.n N<.l.tional Bank , Executor of E • .d. oellers, that the s u.id ,{. ,f. Sellars aad Rockinghd-rn Nationc1.l Bank, executor of E. B. Sellers, u.re entitled to· receive the proceeds a1·ising from the condemnatiJn of s-..1.id tract No . 179, of $5573 . 00 in equal moities, and it further appearing to the court from the evi- dence adduced that all t.ues due or exigible u on the land at the time the title thereto vested in the petitioner under the jud 0 ment of conde .nnation as .do res ..1.id, h . . . ve been paid, it is considered .md ordered by the court that the s ... id sum of $5573 . 00 paid into court by petitioner , the 5t..1.te Co1:uni:::lsion on Conservation & Devtilopment of the State of Virginia, i s just comi?ensation for tr ct No . 179, be paid in equalmoities unto the s-..1. id i• •l . Sellers dnd the Rockil1t;ham l.Jat ional Bank , 1hecutor of E . B. Sellers , deceasea, viz., to.:" . { . Sellers the sum of $2786 . 50, and to Rockinghamlfational Bank , .ii:xecutor of E. B. Sellers, deceased, $2786 .50; and that the Clerk of this Court do tr:msmit forthwith a certified copy of tr is order to tho 'l're ... surer o fV irg bid, .rho shall make payment of o<.l.id ~55,73 .oo ~ ~ ~ ~ ~c::::~/1:r~ �M__~_.SELLERS__ £_.B__ & __'IJ.._iJ.i __ _ COMMO NWEALTH OF VIRGINI A No. -----------------· __________ ELKTON__________________________________________ , Virgini a To M. H. HARRIS ON, Treasur er Rocking ham County , Harriso nburg, Virginia STATE TAXE S AND LOCAL LEVIE S-1933 FOR STATE TAXATION ONLY I Value I State Rate on $100 I State Taxes State C apitation Tax. . . .. . .. . . . . . . . .. .. . . ... . ..... . ..... . $ 1.50 $,_ _ _ _ Bonds, N otes and Other Evidences of Debt . .. . . .......... . .. . ....... $- · · - - - - - --1 .50 1-- - --·-· ·-··-Money ..... . . ..... .... .. .. ,.·,·,· - · - - - - - - .20 M oneyed Capital in Competition with National Banks ..... .. . . . . .. . .. . - · · · · · · - - - - - - 1.00 Capital Not Otherwise Taxed ....... - - - - - -- -Income: 1 i% on first $3,000; 2½% on next$2,000; 3% on excess over $5,000 - · · · - - - - - - - .75 ,_______ - --- - PERSONAL PROPERTY Pai1e._ ._ _.l,lne.. lNCOME Real Estate and Tangible Per- Machinery Merchant'• sonal Property and Tools Capital County Levy .....•. $ .35 $ .35 $ County School Levy. .70 .70 .50 ..- Pai1e.. .•. .__Llne.••• _ .._ LAND Pa~e......4 5.Llne.. ... .8..._ Total. I Tangible Personal Property . . . .. .. . S·--- ------1$ 1.05 Machinery and Tools ... . ......... - - - - - ----1 I Local Rate on $100 Value 203..;.;o~o-.....-·--·--zuo-- Merchants' Real Estate . ... -"--C--'--A cres,1_ _ _ _=-_;:c....::c. __ 1 Real Estat e . . . . _ _ _ __,,,crea Real Estate .. . . .. I FOR LOCAL TAXATION ONLY Real Estate ... . l$ DISTR ICT LOCAL RATES: Acres -····-cres ___ _ Local Levies $ 1.05 .50 1.05 25_ ---,_____ , 1.05 Real Estate ... . _ _ _ __,.crea, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 ·--- --- - - - - - -1 TOTAL STATE TAXES . . .... . ... . .. . .. ... . . . . . ..... . ..... ... STONE:WALL 1 1.05 - ----1 1.05 1.05 TOTAL LOCAL LEVIES .. . . . ........ .. . .. . CREDITS Date ma ,y,?- Account -- c;,. /4 (/1,{./4_ / J,-- Amount L~ 2S- $ $ $ -- -RECEIVED PAYMENT : M. H. HARRISO N, Treasure r $ • •• ••• $ _ _ _ _ _ , . _____ _____ ___.9··-By_ _ __ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ T otal Taxea, Levies, Penaltiea and Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ �~- 7_f ' IN TIB crwurr COURT OF ROCKINGH_;,M COUNTY' VIRGINIA. ST \.1'~ COMHISSION ON COHSERVATION ;.ND Dii:V.:,i;LOViKiJ:NT OF TH,;,,; ST yrs OF VIRGINIA, PEI'l'l'ION..m v. RESPOHD~HT5. CA5S.. NDRA LA' ifSON A'fKI:NS and others, 'fhe petitioner, the Sta.ta Commissioner on Conservu.tion & Development of the State of Virginia, having heretofore paid into court the sum of iji5573.00, the aL10unt of the award set out in the judgment of c onde1.rnat ion for '1' ract No. l 79, the undersigned, v:. W. Sellers,and Rockingham National Bank, of Harrisonburg, Virginia Executor of E. B. Sellers, hereby apply to the court for an order of judgment for distribution of said fund of $5573,.00 in equal moit ias to the undersigned on the ground that it appears from thereport of tie Board of Appraisal Commissioners here- / tofore filed and the said petition for judgmeni and condemnation, that I •• : . Sellers :.1.nd i. B. Sellers are bvasted with sui)erior or batter right or claim of title in and to the said tract of l nd No. 179,a.nd therefore to the proceeds arising from the condemnat ion thereof, and are entitled to receive the proceeds arising from the exappropriation of Tract 179. 'l'he undersigned furt er a.var thut since the filing of the report of the Board of Appraisal Gommiss ioner3 a s ~roresaid in thio c~use,that E. B. Sellers has departed tnis life having first mcide and published hiti last will and t e..,tament bearing date the 16th day ofJanuary, 1932, wheraby he appointed Rockingham National Bank of Harrisonburg, Virginia, executor and trustee thereof, and said will was duly 1dmitted to probate in the Clerk ' s Office of the Circuit Gourtof Rockin6 ham County, Virginia, on the 30th day of January, 1932, and the said executor named there in, tht:l Roe kin;ham National Bank, duly 1ualified as such executor, takin6 the oath p r e scribed by law and entering into and acknowledging a bond in the penalty of 4ll5,000 . 00, a n atte sted coy of which will is hereby filed marked 1'Exhibit 11 E. 13. Sellarn will" and praJed to betaken and read a s a part hereof. The undersibned further aver that the said E. B. Sellers, by his said last will and t e stament, provided as follo,,s: "Should tht,;re become payable or to be paid subsequent to my death, a fund or funds from condemnation of any of my real es- tate in proceedings instituted in my lifetime, such sum or s ums shall be received by my executor, and held in trust and disposed �-2- under the provisions of Paragraph Third of this wi ll11 • The undersigned further aver that the s<-1.id sum of $5573 . 00 is now payable from the condemnation of real est:ite in proceedings instituted i11 the lifetima of E . B. Sellers; that the s.J.id E. B. Sellers ha.s departed this life as aforesaid, and th t the said sum of ,5573.00 shall b ,$2786.50 to the undersigned , ..,, . paid in equal moiti3s, viz., ! . Sellers, and $2786 . 50 to the undersigned, the Rockingh.1.m National Banl:, executor of E. B. Sellers, deceased . The undersigned further aver that the record in this suit does not disclode any denial ordispute by any party or person in it1te1·est as to the title to said tract No . 179, or to the proceeds arisin,; from the condemnation thereof; that the sc:1.id statements in the petition of condemnation s.s to the title of the undersigned are true , and that the undersi6 ned has title in fe J simple and unencumberad to said tract No . 179, and are entitled to be paid the said sum of :P5573 . 00 in equal moities, and pray that tho court will 01·der ::1.nd direct the p.J.ymant of said sum of $2786 . 50 to the undersigned , W• .J. Sellers, and $2786 .50 to the Rockingham Natio.al Bank, executor of E. B. Sellers . The undersigned further aver that all taxes ayable or exigible upon said tract No. 179 have been paid . /fl», 7-/fLM;U,f .' _ )t .:. .L-]±4 ~affe~ cd~ - - <fJ_,_ ROCKDlGH 1M 1'L Tl~ 9f_L . f?.\.-!K OF H•• ll;.,,)NBURG , ~ I'~~ State of Virginia , City of Hti.rrisonburg , to-wit: r,O!_~ L /~ ,a notary public in and for the City of Harris onburg , State of Virginia, do certify that 011 this the / rle:aay of Dece,aoer, 193 3 , person'.:1.lly appeared befo e me in mysaid city, If. ; . Sellers, and nude oa.th that the st ...tements set out in the foragoing p;jtition a ra true, and I furthe .:certify that onsaid dcLte the said Rockb_: ham Hational Bruk of Ha.-risonburg , Hai·.·isonburg , Va . , · 9Y C. A. Ma:son, it!} trust officer, pe rsonally appeared before me in my said city and made oath that he verily believes thest..1tements set out in the foregoing petition are true. lviy commission expires the ,,?./) &fay of ~ Givon under rn,y hand this / f Lc;a.y , 1933 -:- of December , 1933 . ~ ;/.~~ -Nof.1.rypubl.ic . �C OP Y ~- ~/1 ~~q I, Edgar Brown Sellers, of Rockingham county, Virginia, do he~eby make and deelare this to be my last will and testament , hereby revoking all other wills by me at any time made. FIRST: any I desire all my just debts to be paid, if I shall owe at my death. SEXJOND: I give all my household property, farm equipment , live stock, and any and all other chattel property, absolutely , to my wife, Mary Julia Sellers. THIRD: All the rest and residue of my personal estate shall be held invested by my Executor, hereinaft er named as Trustee here~ under, for and during the life of my said wife, and the net income therefrom paid to her annually, and, upon her death the same shall be reduced to cash and eq~ally divid~d (subject, however, to a charge of Nine ~undred Dollars ($900.00) against the share of Edgar Brown Sellers, Junior, amount heretofore advanced by me to him), between my two children, Edgar Brown Sellers, Junior, and Mauzy Napoleon Sellers, share and share alike, the issue of either child if then deceased to take what the parent, if living, would have received; and, if either of said two children predeceas e my my wife, dying without issue, then his share shall pass to the survivor of my said two children. Said Trustee shall receive, hold, manage, sell, invest and reinvest this trust estate, and every part thereof, under the provision s hereof, and si~ilarly oollect, recover and receive the issues, interest, inco•e and profit thereof; is authorized and empowered to retain all of the property and securitie s so received in the form in which they shall be delivered to it, without liability for decrease in the value of such property or securities , or, convert the same, and reinvest in other property or securitie s, in its absolute discretion . XQURTH; I give and devise all of my real estate to my said wife, for and during her natural life, with remainder in fee to my said two children, Edgar Brown Sellers, Junior, and Mauzy Napoleon Sellers, subject, however, to the following provision relating to the tract of two �--2-hundred and eight acres, more or less, known as the •Home Place," situate in Rockingham County, Virginia, and upon which I now reside, namely, that upon the death of my said wife, my son, Mauzy Napoleon sellers, shall have the right to become, and by complianc e herewith shall by operation of this will become, the sole fee simple owner of said "Rome Pl ce" at a valuation of Seven Thousand Dollars ($7000.00 ), if he so .. elects, by makJng payment to my eaid Ex~cutor on or before six months after the date of the death of my said wife, of one-half of said sum, or Three Thousand, Five Hundred Dollars ($3,600.0 0), together with interest thereon at 6% from the date of the death of my said wife to the date of payment, such paym nt to be for the account of Edgar Erown Sellers, Junior, and b disbursed by said Executor to him, his per- sonal represent ative or aas!gns. FIFTH: Should there become payable, or be paid, s~bsequen t to my death, a fund or funds from condemnat ion of any of my real estat b in proceedin gs instituted in my lifetime, such sum or sums shall r oeived by my Executor, and held invested and diepo ed of under the provision s of paragraph "THIRD• of this will. SIXTH: I appoint The Rockingham National Bank of Harrisonburg, at Harrisonb urg, Virginia, Executor of this my will. Signed and sealed as and for my last will and testam nt, without interlinea tion or erasure, at Harrisonb urg, Virginia, this 16th day of January, 1932. E. B. Seller a Sig~ed, published and declared, as and for his last will and testament, by the testator, Edgar Brown Seller, in our preeenc~ together, and we in hi a presence, and in th preseno of aoh other, and at his request, have hereunto set our hands ( SEAL) �--3--- as attesting mtnesses, this 16th day of January, 1932. s. D. Myers C. H. Mauzy In the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, January 30, 1932. A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Edgar Erown Sellers, deceased, was this day presented in the offioe aforesaid and was fully proven by the oaths of s. n. Myers and c. H. Mauzy, the subscribing witnesses thereto, and the tax on same having been paid on an estate reported at $22,000.00, said writing is admitted to record as the true last will and testatement of Edgar Brown Sellers, deceased. The Rockingham National Ba.nlt of Harrisonburg , ne.m din said will as Executor and Trustee, thereupon appeared by A. Mason, its duly authorized trust officer, and the said c. c. A. Mason for and on behalf of said bank qualified as such Executor and Trustee by taking and subscribing the oath prescribed by la , and entered into and acknowledged bond in the penalty of Fifteen Thousand DOllars {$15,000.00) conditioned and payable as provided by .law and certifi- cate is granted said Executor for obtaining a probate of said will in due form. The following appraisers are appointed for said estate, any three Qf whom may act after int be&ng first duly sworn and who shall make report according to law, viz. M. H. Ha.r riaon, T. L. Yancey, Jr. E. s. Ashby, M. H. Harrison, Jr. and A. R. Ru.ff. Atteste: J. Robert SWitzer Clerk. '155 �STATE OF VI RGI NIA , COUNTY OF ID CKINGHAM , to- wit : I , J . Rob e~t Switzer, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County , Virginia , tbe same being a Court of Record do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the will of Edgar Brown Sellers, dated January 16 , 1932 , and admitted to probate in the Clerk ' s Office , January 30 , 1932 , as the same appears of record in Will Book 12, at page 32 , in my office as clerk aforesaid . In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of mys aid Court at Harrisonb urg, this 15th day of December 1933 . / Clerk of the Circuit ourt of Rockingham County , Virginia . � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context sellers-e-b.pdf Title A name given to the resource Sellers, E. B. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: One mile east of Island Ford 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): 207 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 Sellers https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/d3a0ce6514e18b623d24b084ec75bfbc.pdf ed390ed1abc0ac03b90828669db8c665 PDF Text Text ROCYJHGIW.• JOUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #211 - Sellers, o. ~Number of Acres: 14 .'1is tract is pe..rtl~r rrwo miles east of Isl, .nd J'ord . Location: insi<le und .' rtly outside the :'),-1rk ur·eo. . Roads: 'I' iO nile s OJ er IJO unty roc::.d to Isl:..nd Ford . Soil: Slope . History of Tract and condition of timber: ":,e Y'lerc11c-ntable ti:1 er· h.:..s been renoved fro:·:. t;::is trnct let.Vint onl:• fuel .. ood. Improvements: :one. Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 14 ' ,,j . 00 _;70 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 70 . 00 6J . OO ,,,135. 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 6j . 00 Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ 9 . 6Ll~ Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ \3 �'-- ,-...-, C:).CJ),__ x:.f~ -------------------------------------------------- Claim of______ In the Circuit Court of__~ ~ ~--County, Virginia, No. ________, At Law. The State Commission on Conservat10n and Development ~the State of ,lli~ginia, Peti_ __________&~t<-AA-10'4. ____ ~ .l'W _ {iJI / ~ __ ~ tioner, vs. _____ , _ _· __ 4 ,.J~ ,6~ _I - ~ ------------------------------------------------------------more or less, of land in __ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to-th~-p~titi~~-~{ th~-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 ~o said 1W~ion anu ~t~ce. ___ "i:--: ? f ~____ :~ ;::eo;ce address i~:~M~--~~ __7J_q,,_"---_____________ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or$arcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ _____ acres, on which there are the following __:____________________________________ _ buildings and improvements=---------~ J-~-_______ :~~~;:;~~~;}~;~~~;; ~:~~~~~~~~~-id--====~~~;~;~.-;~ 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 01· 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.) ~ ---------------------------- xf' ----- ~ -· ------------------------------------- The land o,,rners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,ws: North ___ · (!2/t) f'._~ ~ · - - - - - -Sou ·h---- -~ East ____ _J11fl:~Cf West ____ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -· ____ _ __ ___ _ /<.,..,~I ·------------------------------------------------------ :__yU}~?if~ ,____ CA/I _______ _______________ _________ ~ ' { . ] ~ ~ ~ 4 __ .______________________________ _ r . - I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year__ [!i_/_P._ ___ in the following_ man'::Iwl ~ ~ &ifci:t,z, _-'------------------- ! claim that t~ total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $----/.1)_())_~ ---· I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $------- ---------· I am the owner oL ___ ~@':()______ acres of land adjoining the above ·described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $---~-------: ____ __. (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Ren1arks· ----- -------------------------------------- --------- --- - --------- - - - --- - -- ----;~;~ ;~~;~~;~~~-(~~-~;-~~.:~-~~;-~c;:t~;;::::;tt~i::~~;~-~~~i;:; of_ __~ ------, 19'4/. . sTATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY ' OF_ _-J:__ __' { J _ , a ~---------------- _ - - - ---~'7}"77)- To-wit: _ _ The undersigned hereby certifies thaL _~------~ - ~ - _ - -----------------------the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters an_d things ~Pp~ ring in his abov~ ~e; are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, thJS __ ____ qm ______ day of___ ~ -- --, 193;. ~ 'IA , .,-/ 1/ / __ ,______ 3 / Clerk of Notary Public, ~ --· · a o or . �county: nockinc;llam District: Jtonewull :-;......,.___o__ D• .-_,e __.....,.·'...~11 '' 11ors . Acreage Claimod:14 Deed ,, Value Claim.a d: '100. 00 Location: Laps: -Roads: H Area: 14 A. 2 miles east of Island Ford. This tra.ot io pertly inside a.nd partly utside the .1.ark o.rea. . !Hop e. Soil: 2 miles over oounty road to I sland Ford ~ - H:tstorv: 'Tho merohaht,...ble timber ha.s been re moved fron t hiG tract leaving only fuel wood. Inmrovemento: '!'imber: l one. . ucl v1ood 85 eds. · 75¢ p er od. ~ulue of land by,tyr es1 Value ner -:i. cre •. '5 .oo Acre.age . 14 . Total v:1lue of land -------------.... ,'65 .'7.o !,'otal 1..lue ·V. ?"o.oo 70.00 Total value cf im.1, rovezncn ts Total value of timber Total V lue of tract Average value d pet' o.ore 53 .75 '!1133.'75 9.55 22-7 . �[-1 211 - ~ .:,,.a 1 ·1 ~ers ' o.__D. County: hoo~ingh~TI District: Stone1all N ..... • J. c; r i ckhoff' ; . Kin · Slope Scc..le - l" - ·~v cht ins � 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 Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context sellers-o-d.pdf Title A name given to the resource Sellers, O. D. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Two miles east of Island Ford 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): 211 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 Sellers https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/75ceee9cab337458f1d85b705e21167f.pdf 4b0452cb2549893e1797a724d7146bab PDF Text Text ROCKINGF...AM co· NAME OF CLAIMANT #199 - Sellers , T • . ,._l fred Number of Acres: 9 Location: Two miles eo.~t of Island Ford . the Park area . Roads: Two miles over county road to Isla nd Ford . Soil: This tract is entirely within Slope • • History of Tract and .condition of timber: There isl no merchantable timber on t his tract and it has been repeatedl~burned ovec. Improvements: None . Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage • Ridge: Slope: Total Value Value per acre $ 45 . 00 t5. 00 9 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land: Orchard: 20 . 00 $6ti . OO Minerals: Value of Land:$ 65 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: S Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ ValueofWood: $ 20 . 00 Value per acre for tract : $ ? • 2 2 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . I' - -~~ - / ~~ ~- - - -' -_ CLEH<: . �_____ 199 creo.ge Cle.imodt Velue Cleined: rn Locatio n: county: Rook:nghrun Di strict: s tonana.11 ,._T. ---- ---- Alfrod Sellers lSSessed . 50 1 " 8 .140 Deed ( Inherite d 8 .140 ·.ores ) 50 . 00 2 milos east of Island Fora. . the ark a r ea . 11 {1925) This :bract is entirely within Laps: oil: Roads: Slope. 2 niles over county road to !sland Ford. History : There is no mex·chan ts.ble timber on this tro.ct ana ..:. t l:e.s been repeated ly burned over . Imnrovar nen·ts: Timber: :..one. 40 ods . of fuel wood 50¢ p er ed.---- -- 20 . 00 Value of lnnq_'by typcc:_ vnc Slone Value Eer o.orc ~ase 4.00 9 Totul value of land tal Value 36 . 06 .... 36 .oo Todial value of i n:1 rovemen ts Total value of timber 20 . 00 Total value ot tract 56 . 00 AveraGe value per acre 6.22 lo1 �Claim oL-~-~~-r------------------------------------In the Circuit Court o L d f ~ ~ o u n t y , Virginia, No. ________, At Law. ::.:.t~--~~~~~~~-~~~--~~-~-~~~~~-~~~i: more or less, of land in ____________________________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon t h e ~ of sJi~ petitioJ and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court o L - - - - ~ ~ C o u n t y , Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to sai notice. :; :::•o:;;-~~ -is _____ - -_- ~~¾2D1!]lfi~ I·claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought acres, on which there are the following to be condemned, containing about_ __ buildings and improvements: _____________ _________________________ ___________ __________ _ cf:-£ _____ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- from_:/!~/..&i.£_ This land is located about_/~ ____ miles Virginia, in the~~agisterial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) --------------- -------~ ~ r ------- ---------------------- ------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The land owners adjacent to the above descri ed tract or parcel of land are as follows: ~:::~~~~~ - --~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ East __ ~ ~ - ------------------------------------------------West---~-..LJ:~---------------------------------------------------I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year Lf1J2_in the following manner: --------~--~~-~!"'-~- ~ - 1 . . J ' . L ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $__L/.2,_~--· I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or in~est, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $-_g__/_~~-· I am the owner oLLL'_~_~ ______ 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~1Be 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). of aa:s_L:~-:~~:~~r1:3tr my name an: :it:~~~h ---h~~~~}~~~~~~~:y ~ - OF VI~GINIA, COUN~ QF____ ___if.7 - -------- - :----, ~~ The undersigned hereby certifies that_ ____ :f_: ___ ~ ~ 1 - - ~-----------------the above named claimant personally appeared befor;-tfii~ and made oath that the matters and belief, and things appearing in his~aboveanswer are true to the best of his k~wledge this _______..1.f.'.'. _______ day of__ ___tj__ ._ __ ___ __ , 193'/. c;:PauJ, -{- 'J--/ 4-/. -----------------------------------------~f=tlre Court, or Specia-l Invesbigato1 OP 1/ 6 l Notary ~ c , ~ >i~. /9.$1 ~ 3~ �Claim of___ ~ ~~ ~---~ ----------------------- In the Circuit Court of _ __ ~County, Virginia, No. ___ _____, At Law. The State Commission on Conser ion and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. ____ _____________________________ ___ _______ ___________ ___________________ ____ _ 1fi:'~d~w~~~teC~~~;;;i~/~~i~~a,C~~::~v~~\'! and DeTu;~~de~~fgn~~. velopment of the State of Virginia,~1°fn °response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the ~ng of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court oL/{l~~ _ - ~ o u n t y , Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to sa· petition and to said,,n tic My name is__ _ -::; ~Jt,:;,-U-- ------J5)---------------------------My post offi.ce address is ____~ __ y:c;c__..,_f/J!.:__~---------------------1 claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ __ _.L,..(____ ______ _acres, on which there are the following buildings and-impro~ - - - ; ; . ~~- ~ - ---------------------- d --------------This l~IJ,d is locate9J,;lbout_ __~__ ____ miles from ____~ - - - -Virginia, in th e ~ agisterial 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. ) - -------- ----------------- --------- ------- --- -- - - - - ~ /7~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follows : North ___________________ ____ __ ________ ____________________ __________ ___ ____________ South __ _________________________ ___ ____ ___ __________ ________ __________ ___ _________ _ East ____________ ______________ _______ _______________________ ___ ___________________ _ West __________ _______________ _________ _______ _____________ _______ _____ fl/d- ---- I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year___ following manner: -~in the _/4.£.__·_ ~ k4-__'7-2/-~-f£---hl-2'-2::-:::-:_~_ -------------I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $_ 1)._.,2'.f2~-~-d_ __ . I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $----------------· I am the owner of_ ___ -4:'.'_________ 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?___~-~-----· (In the space below should be set out an y additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a desc:::::k:f ~~~~4~:cel of land b y - = ~-~ · ~-----------~ ~ -- - ~ - - ~ - - - ~--~ k - -- --- -:_A1f_~__ /d._~ ~ , . . . . . ~ ~ - , q E - ~ ~;,--------;,z__ - -~-~~-~ ~ ~-9.,,,r - - -~- --- -~- - ---------- -- ( Continue remarks if necessary on the back). Witness my signature (or my name and mark attached hereto) this ___~_l _______ day of_ _?,--9:-s.-.--=-==------, 193l ___ _;? ~ -~ -'-:"1/4..11f:~.~ e - STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF___ ___ - - -----------~ -------, To-w1 : _ _ _ ___ ________ _ _ The undersigned hereby certifies that_~ .P ~ .,1; ::--__ the above named claimant personally appe~befur~~ and ma oath that the matters and things appearing in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, this ______-?=;3 _______ day o L ~ --, 193<£ ______ _____ #ju �Go ..mty : ~.oc 1:ing ...1 m District : N lctt 1 'J . '7. Sel eob Yost Li-.;G'"';'TD S ope .;cule - l" ~o cha ins tone ,all � 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 Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context sellers-t-alfred.pdf Title A name given to the resource Sellers, T. Alfred Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Two miles east of Island Ford 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): 199 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 Sellers https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/cdd1722f7118bfe7d2e00736e9a76ab8.pdf 9c25483c961726b3829862d266020ed8 PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #206 - Sellers , T. N. Dr. - ~state Number of Acres: 6 6 Location: Two Mile Run. This tract is entirely within the Park area . Roads: Two miles to Island Ford over country road . Soil: Slope . History of Tract and condition of timber: 11 merchanta ble timber has been removed and the tract has been repeatedly burned over . Dwelling: Frame , 15x39' , 4 rooms , bi'i ck flues, 1 st cry ,plastered , poor condition , abandoned , spring . Improvements: Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 64 ~3 . 00 $192 . 00 2 25 . 00 50 . 00 '1,)242 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land: 66 Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 242 . 00 Value of Improvemen ts: $ 10 0 . 0 0 100 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ 25 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ 25 . 00 ~· 357 . oo Value per acre for tract: $ 5 . 55 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ . NONE . -----~------------/4~~--~ --------'_ CLERK. ~ �>: County: Rockingham Distri ct; Stonew all # 2oe u. Seller s, ~nt . M1sess ed 66 A Deed: 660 . 00 " 120 " 1wo mile Run. Thi Acrear ;e Claime d: 66 Val e Claime d: Locati on: Dr. i:. Acquired 66 acres 1871 for ""al.00 Area: 66 A . the Park firea . within ly tract is entire Lape: ~ : Slope 2 miles to Island Ford ov r countr y :road. Road : Hi tory: All merch antabl e timber has been removed a.nd the tre.ct has been repeat edly burned over. Improvements: Value or lam Dwell ing--:t'rame, l~ x ~9, room 4, flues brick, l story, plas tered $50.00 poor cond . aban<lo ned, spring , values b,;; types: 1m (B 11rned) Slope Total value ot lend Total value or improvements Total 1'31.ue of tract Average value per acre Value pe~ acre X1.oo Total Value ;g66.00 $ 66.00 b0.00 110.00 1.76 211., �____________ ____ '----> }?.Oo - Dr . .L . ~ • Sellers__,_, ounty : Loc:dneh"'.m Di strict : St neu ..... 11 N Slope Sc~le - l ' = ~l ch~ins � 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 Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context sellers-t-n-dr-estate.pdf Title A name given to the resource Sellers, T. N. Dr. Estate Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Two Mile Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 206 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 Sellers https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/77d0f793d207f3fef8ba0c8268dfba61.pdf 4fe202e4ec84be6f9ccf8a6141188bb6 PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAlVI COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #197 - Sellers , W. ll. Number of Acres: 124 small portion of this tract is outside of the Location: Two Mile Run . Park area . Roads: Two miles to Island Ford over county road . Soil: Slope . History of Tract and condition of timber : A very nice stand of mixed oak, white tract . In spots the chestnut oak this on is pine and yellow bark and cross tires were being for peeled and cut has been made of the down chestnut oaks at the time of examination. Improvements: None . Acreage and value of type_s: Types Value per acre Acreage Total Value Ridge: Slope: 124 @ $620.00 $5 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: 900 . 00 $1520 . 00 Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 620 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: ~ 00 . 00 Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ 12 . 25 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . -~-~:_c~~- ~ - ~---~~ �~~a::. ~~~t::e:it::~:~~;~~;;;~~;,-~~~::::::::,-~;~~~ The State Commission ~;C;;;;~n and Development of th~. State of Virginia, Petitioner, v s . ~ - ~ - 4 a : : & t - ~ 1- ---------------- ---------------- ---- - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 ~ ~ - - ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------------- --- more or less, of land in ____________________________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said p ~ d published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_A_,n,,,A~ ---------- County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answe;t;~hrp~ tition and to said notice. :~ ;::·o::~:~~~A--:A7=¥P~=: I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ ____ .3___________ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: ___________________________________________________________ _ -;~;s-~~~~-~~-1~~~~~~-~~~~t-_-L-~---_-_-_:~1~~-~~~:~J~Ji--~~~~~~~~~,-~~ the __________ :-______ Magiste:rial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is 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.) If _________________________ /-:.J_MP___ ~-,------------------------------------- The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,ws: North __ _?~~~----- ------------- ------------- ------------- -------S o u t h ~ -~----------- -------------- -------------- -------------- - -r::::t:~ ~,====:::::=====::::::::::::::::==::::::==::::::::::== I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year __/Jg!J-:-:_in the following manner: ______________ / __ . ------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- ---------- I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $____ .!j._O.. _______. I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $__ j!._l)_ _________ , I am the owner oL_/_,,._________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $-~$-~-"'------ ---· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks·------ ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- --- - ---------------- -- . . ---------------- ---------------- ------------ (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). Witnes~mtsignatur: (or my name and 1:1Kk attached her:to •this ____ day ~~~~-;~~ OF____Jl~-;---, /..z...-____ T o - w ~-- The undersigned hereby certifies t h ~ ~--~ ~-~ ~ the above named claim?nt personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters : j:_~~~~:;_~:~~~~~-~::i:f~ff3~~-:~~:;~~~~:~:~f: r--1, t.-/f/...,L...P/ ~ Clerk of the Court, or Special Investigator or 1/0 / Notary Public, or Justice of the Peace. p4 - ~ �County: District: #197 - Sellers, Aorea3e 0 la.ir.ie d : ' Value Ola.toed: Location: 146 _,7000 . 00 Two Mile Run. i.s outoid w. Rookinghan Stonewall M. Aaaesaed: 146 . 16 Aaaeaaed: $ 580 . 00 Deed: 146 . 16 A. (1919) Deed: Partition deed. Area, 124 A. A sr.1all portion of this tract of the l?o.rk area. Inounbra.nces 1 counter olaios or laps: Soil : Slope . Roads: Two niles to Island Ford over county road. Histor;y of tract and condition ,of tiober : A very nice atand of oixed oak, white ruid yellol pin~ is on this tract . In spots the chestnut oak has been out and peeled for bark and croao tires were being re.de of the down chestnut oaks at the tine of exanination . Io;provet1ent~ i None . Tiober , 124,000 bd. ft. Q $8 . 00 per M. ----$992. 00 . Value ,qf land by types: Value ;eer a.ore ~5 . 00 Total value of land 620 . 00 Total value of tinber 992 . 00 Total value of tract 1612 . 00 /4verage value per acre Total Value ,5620 .oo j l3. 00 lo$ �,'/19'~ Sellers , ,' .___& N #t?-1 / / ~-i:.J h " •>r f orris· ," 1/P · ' ; / f illie ::: . _., . L a 1 • ca_,,_ '20 c11 ins _ ickle ~st . � 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 Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context sellers-w-m.pdf Title A name given to the resource Sellers, W. M. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Two Mile Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 197 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 Sellers https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/498f67de052d5232ca48cee7ec15288a.pdf 844c5e205dbc4556d3cab39ccaf3fc31 PDF Text Text I / I NAME OF CLAIMANT #175 -- Number of Acres: Location: v. Sellers , ,vm. 159 Roads: On east side of Simnons G-....l) Roc..d , about one mile north of Si,..11.nons G~p. :rt is approxiautely five miles to Swift Run Post Office over ~n ordtn.::.ry dirt roe:..d; t:1a:1ce three n"_le.:; to Elkton o~er t~e Spottswood ~rai l. Soil: ... 11e soil is a clL-y l our.11 with G: very slicllt mixtur J of s a nd . History of Tract and condition of timber: ':'lii s tract has b ,en used c1liefl y for genera.l fur 1ning :'or r1:.-lny years os indicat d by the buil<lings -found on it . Sane of -~he better grade o:' oc.k and yellow poplar logs ,, re cut from t::is tract about fi v., :rears n o . '.:'he remaining st~nd is estin-ted to c1t us follows ; 92 :_. ft. Oa.k (rnostly red oak ) 15 II . ft. hickory -10 • Improvements: pop l ctr - 13 A. pin~ ,. mc1 ot 11er& - to :ul 130 .l • Dvmlli 'lg : Fr~,me , 26x44 ', 1 0 r ooms, porch 10x20' , net a l roof , brick and sto:1 fl· 1 es , 2 story , ceiled , water supplyspring , solid :i.oun<lution, celltir , 10xl2 ' , f1..1.ir conclition , occuJied by ten~nt (l~s . Wood ) . Woodsi1ed: Fr:1: _e, 8xl0x6 ' , s:.-11 '1(lle- bo~rd roof, ..;>oor condition. T.1e.1t house : Log , llxllx l O',.sl1intle , f\.ir conc:j_-cion . SJring house : Log , 8xl7x8 ', slii.nGl roof, f . ,ir condition • .lo.sh house : Fre.1a.e, 1 2x26x8 ', shingle roof , poor oondi ti on . 3arn : Fr~,~e a 1"' log , 42x87xl6 ', shingle roof , poor cond ition Bugqy shed : Frm,1e , 1Gx22xl 0 ', shingle roof . Gr~(n ry : Log ~mcl fro.ne, 2b~3lx l 3', shingle roof , poor condition . . f[;.gon s:1ed : 20x23xl2', fr' ·1e , G:1i:n.c;le roof , poor eon 1 itio11. Orchard : 5 - ores . Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage Value per·acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 77 ~.A: . 00 ..,308 . 00 5 15 . 00 75 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: 72 -~, 5 3: . 00 2520 . 00 ,r'2903 . 00 50 . 00 230 . 00 1 300 . 00 600 . 00 30 . 00 :;,;5100 . 00 Minerals: Value of Land: $ 2903 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 1300 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ 2:50 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 600 . 00 Value of Wood: $ 30 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 33 . 10 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ ..Tone . ~ - / ~ -~ 71 �REPORT ON THE ACREAGE of tlie WM. V. SELLERS TRACT #175. This tract is covered by an apparently good description, by bearings and distances, calling for 140 Acres. However, measurements made on the ground prove that the closing line is eight chains longer than called for in the deed, and that, on the opposite side of the tract, an incorrect bearing is given for one line. These errors tended to balance each other in closing the tract, so that a good closure was obtained in spite of them. Computing the acreage af ter making these corrections, I get 159 acres as the area of the tract. #/1/J V w.-~ 07&a.-iA--- 's1oan ~ Chief Engineer Park Service 72 �~ County : Distri ct: H,l7p • Seller s, Wm. y. _ Acreas e Claime d: 140 *Asses sed: 140 A. 1 ~.8400 • 00 Assesse d1 $1'150, 00 Value Ola!iiied Deed: 140 A~ Deeds $6000. (1925) 159 A •~ On East side of 51.m:mona Gap Road, about one mile of Simmons Gap . AREA. Loca.ti otu Rockingham Stonew all Incumb rances 2 counte r el aim& ,or- lnJi?s 1 north None so far ns known. Soil: The soil is a clay lAe.m, with a very slight mixtur e of ae.nd. Roe.de: It is approx1 .ma.tel7 f1.ve n4les to Swift .Run P. o. over an ordina ry dirt road, thence three miles to Elkto~ over the Spottsw ood Trail . Histor y of tract and condit ion of timber : Thia tract hns been used ehle1'1 y ?or genera l farmin g .for many years as 1nd1 ... cated by the buildin gs found on 1t . Somo of the bet t er grade of oak add yellow poplar loge were cut from this tract about five years ago. The remain ing stand is estimated to cut as follow s: 92 M. ft. Oak (mostl y Red Oak) 15 M. ft. Hickor y 10 M. Poplar 13 M. P1ne and o t hors ... 15g I. Improvements: , s"'>- Dwellip g t Frame, 26x44' 10 roomo., Porch 10x20' , metiil roof, brick and stone flues, 2 story, ceiled Water SU.Jply- Spr1ng ., solid foundn tion--C ellar, 1 ·1::d2' Fair condit ion, occupie d by tenant•- -fY.!'s~ Wood) 850. Woodshed: Frame, 8x10.x6 • . Sh1ngl e•board roof - poor• 5. Meat ffou.'"se& Log, llxllltl O, shingl e, fair cond'n 20. Spri!!B Rouse: tog., 8xl7x8 1 , shingle roof, fair 35. Waah1iouse: Prame, 12x26x 8 1 , shingle roof, poor 10. Srn:_ Frame', _sx "l • s h ingle roof, poor 200. 7& log l Buggy Sheds Frame, l6x22Xl.O t, ehingle roof• 25. Granar y: ' tog and Frame, 2lx31x l2', shingl e roof, poor condit ion ------ --150. wyon Shefi: 20lt23x l~ 1 Frame, shingle roof,p oor- _._..3..,.5.. .,. Orchar d: 5 A. AereN>e and Value of lanp Acreag ,: . 77 'Slope Fe· "/2 Fr 6 ~= Orchar d 5 :[59 * bz @ tao.. ---- tzyes C $400 . 00 value per A. $S.ol5 30 . 00 10 . 00 so.oo (Contin ued) 81836. Total Value ~s1.oo 2160 . 00 50 . 00 ~iR1.b6 �#1"15• Sellers, wm. v . (oontinued) Total value ot lam: Total value of orchard Total value of improv~~ente $2441 . 00 400. 00 1330. 00 · Total value of timber * 130 M. ft . @ 5.•--~ Total value of tl'act~•-~ • ~45~1. 00 Average value per acre: 030.32 Note: 650 . 00 Tho difference in the area found a.nd the aereag assessed is attribut d to what appears to have been an erroneo urvey. ·A check of eeFtain boundary lines t the time th1 tract was examined indicates that at least one line had been measured too short. �~ Rockingham Sto new all Cou nty; Distx-1ct; #17 5 • Sel lers , Wm. v. N M. Burke et al . !I ,,. f: w.w. ,,· ·. ~ ,, ll ·.. II t Ale x 11 ''J' ·;. • " \S'T Shi ffle tt i ....... Mra .n.c.coleman .' Fe II II II ·.. & ~ .' Fr .:· T. L.Yaneoy . .... Joao ph Wood Ambrose Shi f~l ett ~EG,ElID: ,.,.., Slo pe Til lab le Orchurcl Fie lda •res too kin g Sca le - l" = 20 cha ina � 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 Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context sellers-wm-v.pdf Title A name given to the resource Sellers, Wm. V. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Simmons Gap Rd 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): 175 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 Sellers https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/0a1d102bdd6cd0474964e5bae1598b46.pdf 9bd117e2831a0f83a85f844201e613f6 PDF Text Text :ROGKilIG.. 111 COUlHY NAME OF CLAIMANT .Sellers , .!. ;·: . & E . B. ,1179 Number of Acres: Location: 188 Top of the Blue Ridge north of Simmons Gu.p , lying in both Rockin6'1·...rn r.__nd "'reene Counties , ancl ~ntirely ,, i. thin tl'1e ark aree.. 3ight miles over f.;ood clirt ro:..1.d to Yt...ncey , the nearest shipping point . Roads: Soil: See raver e sid& History of Tract and condition of timber: The tract hus been e;ut over at: various tines. :ost of the stund is de8.d 0l-1estnut up -l;;o 30" DBII ,1 ith sc1J.ttered red ouk up to 24" DBH and 1,:itl. ocec..sion::.l smetller trees of poplar, ash t...,1d chestnut o·.1k and tlierP has been no fires in the past severul years . It is estinrted to cut '25 :~. su; tir1.ber . 500 cords o:' extract ,; )Od - 500 locust posts .. Improvements: Tenant ~ouse : Frune , 16x29', 4 rooms, ~ story , porch 6xl6' gootl JonG. · . , to'Yl . Barn:__ i::r-,••V ,l _J'r·, ,.3 , lGx.30', :1:3tc 1 roof, poor con~-ition . 1 h"' Lo•t.) ' v use· ~ S _,ring l10use : l r.,,,x8 ', 8x8 ', -' _ s}1 'L1!r l e roof . Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 68 ~5 . 00 ~340 . 00 118 36 . 00 4248 . 00 ~4588. 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: 735 . 00 Cultivated Land: 50 . 00 Orchard: 1:50.00 Minerals: 50 . 00 Value of Land: $ 4588 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ ? 3§ . 00 v5573 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ 50 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of 'fimber: $ 150. 'JO Value of Wood: $ JO . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 29 . 6L.i: Incidental damages arising from the taking~is ~~n~ �OI L: S8..ndy lot.m o:' fCJ.ir cle:9tll ~nd fertility. m:ie wooded pc.rt 1 s very rock" t....n :,he slope :-: re noueJ·c... te or1 the [Tu.Zing l, 111' ~n<l st,·e' on the tinbered portions. The first class gruzi~~ 1 nd ht.s ~ f~ir sod ith uo~sider~ble blud gruss, so 1 10 shee) sorral nc1 ,l ,.,ds. There is so:.is loose It spews up bt....dly in tlm rouk nd patches of poor soil . ;L,.Jcer . 'Tl:1ere is very little ~ ter on t'1e tract . ?he second clt.. ss 11'.:ls thin socl , m:ny b ackberries , uore rock --..nd some brush . 1 �Qh1mmnumtaltl1 nf llirgiuia TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. JOHN M. PURCELL December 27, 1933 TREASURER OF VIRGINIA This is to certify that I, J.M. PurcelJ, Treasurer of Virginia have t his 27 day of December in accordance with an order of the circuit court of Rockinghrun County . dated 12/30/33 ' in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia vs. paid to _~ . Cassandra Laws~o=n~A~t~lr=~ i=n=s~--------- w. Sellers , R. F . D. 4 , Elkton , Virginia $~2~ J,~7~8=6~·~5~0~___ b e ing in full settlement of tract #--1...79 in the above mentioned cause. ) �C!rnmmnuwtaltb nf 1!1irgiuia TREASURE R'S OFFICE RICHMOND , VA , Decembe r 27 , 1933 JOHN M. PURCELL TREASURER OF VIRGINIA w. w•.Sellers R. F . D. 4 Elkton , Virginia Received of J.M. Purcell, Treasur er of Virginia , the sum of$ 2 , 786 . 50 , in accordan ce with an order of the Circuit Court of the county of Rockingh am entered on the 20th day of Decembe r 1 93~ , in the matter of the State Commiss ion on Conserv ation and Developm ent v ___ __,_C~a~s~s~a_n~d,...._r.,,,a.___..L...,,a,,_,w"---'s~o=n=-=A~t=k=i=n=s~____ an d others , being full and complete settleme nt for the tract of land known in said proceed ing as# Sign origina l and duplica te and return to the Treasur er of Virginia . 1_ _7_9_ _ _ �QJ:ommnuwtalt11 of llirgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. December 27 , 1933 JOHN M. PURCELL TREASURER OF VIRGINIA This is to certify that I, J.M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virginia have this 27 day of December in accordance with an order of the circuit court of Rockingham County dated 12/20/33 in the cause of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia vs. - - - - - - Cassandra Lawson - -Atkins -- - -- -- - - - - - paid t 0 _~ockingharn National Bank, Executor of E. B. Sellers , De ed. · Harrison Lurg , Virginia $ 2 , 786 . 50 being in full settlement of tract #__JZ/9 in the above mentioned cause. �C!!nmmnunttaltlJ of lllirgiuta TREASURER 'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA. December 27 , 1933 JOHN M. PURCELL TREASURER OF VIRGINIA Roc4ingha.m National Bank ~._ Executor of E. B. Sellers, deceased Ha~risonb urg, Virginia Received of J.M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 2 , 786 . 50 , in accordanc e with an order of the Circuit Court of the county of Roc kingham entered on the 20th day of December 1 93L , in the matter of the State Commissio n on Conservat ion and Developme nt v _ __ _ C_a_s~s~an~d----"-'-r-"-a~L_a.c..cw.c..cs.cc..o=n=-=A'--"t=k=i=n=s~____ and others, being full and complete settlemen t for the tract of land k nown in said proceedin g as #__,1=7~9~- - Sign original and duplicate and return to the Treasurer of Virginia. �Claim of __::,;; .. --.J.. --&-e-1-le~--s- - , __,1_!!__1l Jt_.J.ellars4______________________________________ _ In the Circuit Court oL-~c.tingh-4m ------------Coun ty, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Peti-tioner, vs.--~~--:g.! __JeJ.l~_:r§__.&_'1.l...__ J.. __ 3.all.ars..,__ Tw.£l _lruud..racL.e.l'.l.d- -t,h.J.'.!.e-e--&-e-:Fes _______(2..0..3_.a.n.raai _________________________________. ---------------- ---------------- more or less, of land in_BQ~-~ingh.?JJlL _____________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ ___ -.Ro.c..kingham. ________ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as ~tlnswer •<aMid ·petition and to said notice. ~enam'3xs _____:D . - 3 • ~fl~~r~ . &8 ~· :;.ss~~l~rtin -- -. 9rd - . Virginia - ~nd rn ..J.Ji:fQ-U+-~.i.rg.i bi.D_... ________ _ 1he ~ post office address so___j _.__ ,., ... __ Xi c1{1m a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ __~Q~----- _______ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements; __ J)VLellin.g._h.ous .a,.._.a.t.a.hle_.n n.a__an. _or..c...ha..xd_.o..f ____ _ .;)s}lil.x.s.__ ____f.o...rty__or__fif_ty__tr..e..as..________________________________________________________ _ This land is located about__.l_Q ____ ___ miles from ___ _l§]__a_nd_ 1 0J.'J L,.. ______ ___ Virginia, in the--,- -;.itonawtlLMa gisterial District of said County. X 1c1aim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) _______ ________ ___ __ ____ .J..o..in.t._ era ___ ______ ______________________________________ _ The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follows: North ____ .;t.:.n orose _ .::>hifle tt ___________________________________________________ _ South _____ __________ }luf.f.Jnn.. ____ ______ ___________________ __ _____ ______ ______ ____ _ East ___ _.J).r.--G~..t-G..r-t-on ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------' West ____ E..ilar3rot.he. x.s------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------Xlc~~quirecbm.~1i-fght, title, estate or interest to this property about the year_i~1_9_____ in the following manner: ________________ ey_P~cha~e- ___ .. . __ ·---------------- - ---------------- ------------ ------ ----- ;;e-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $1-9_._QQ_Q________ , Iccraim 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 $10....,QO_Q ________ • d' · · t he a bove descr1'bed tract or none le are _______ ____ __ acres of 1an d a~_J91mng the owner of .___ :l:mn parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which J:vt!ih.im will be damaged bj~the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $2:.~-4_~--- ---· (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 a4d bounds). --)t,_J »«•1' _dt~~~~--~ ---~ -i!.-o~--~ - ~ C1J "-.,fJ....,L 0ey__A__Q- ...._.. ..., __ ~ _J _A.M.J..._f:4 _ t. <AMAf' _~ - ~ Remarks: _'2__~ t. -J.__"!"f-<:,.: .... ~ ~ ~-~uv,,.__.,,c::.¥.,..__ ~~~~~ - •• •!_ _§"_~ ~-~ -~ ~ ~ ~ ~--=---t ~-e -- -- - --- __ :..~ --~ -~ . -~ -~L-)----- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). Witness,m§''J;lgn atureS(or '."y name and md;'k a t ~ hereto) this____ J8_tti__;J;:day H-___ !__,(J_,., t ~ -~ 2/c~M-::!. ~ ;:::: 5· 3· oL __~.e.b.ruaiy------ -, 193tl. ~ 01 s:, STATE OF VIRGINIA, GOUN'f'¥ 'oF~ ~ ,%":;:;~~it : The undersigned hereby certifies that..J_.__.3.._...s.elle..r.s_.&. _-:.. _..,_____ ...3ell.e.rs------- -ex., 3 ~ g:, a, the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters z,..; § ~ and things appearing in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, () ;:&,.. ~ 18th · (,) c:;t (/) ~ this________ _______ day oUahruar.,r_____~~~ ~ ~ f ! e e i t t l Imestigarm--.m--Notary Public, _or Jw,stiee ef e=lit Peace.[ [ g- ;=' -~~~=----<1~-"____ ��li X1 __ d~-- -- J ---------------- ------------Claim of______ In the Circuit Court o L _ ~ - ~ - C o u n t y , Virginia, No, ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conser~on and Development of the State of Virginia, Peti- tioner, vs. _________2t w~-- ~ ------------------------------------------- _______ County, Virginia, Defendants. _ more or less, of land in The undersigned, in answer to the pe ·on of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court o L ~ ~ ~ - - County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to saBV~~tition and to said notice. My name is ______ ~_,;r.' My post offi.ce address is ____ .ti~----'2£v .~---------- ------------- -I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ ___j_½_Q _______ acres, on which there are the following , d ~ ------------------------------------ ::: = This land is located about_ ____ -'.z _____ miles f r o m _ f ~ ~ - - - - - - - Virginia, in theJ~_Ma gisterial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) -------- - ------------- ~-~-l uu-~ The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North ___ _rni.lli ~-~ft-~- -~-~-It2 ~-------------- --------~ - - - -----------South ___ ~ . - f f l _ , . ~__t __ _~ East ____ /'J1AA;_J__ f : ~ 71'-t1-::a..d___. __ ____________________________________ _ .d~ r;J.A,, -- _ __ __ ---------------- ---------------- ---------West______ ~~~------I acquired my right, title, estate or i terest to this property about the year _.12~6-:fu the ~ ~~:=-~~I~ ='-.~& u-~ ---------~ I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $__'i{_f._~_"c}!._p_!?___ I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parM~ o! land with the improvements thereon is $- -~~-~ ~--?j-~-I am the owner of_ __ ../!l!f}_______ 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 pro---· posed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $-~ (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a 1~ti1~ ~ ~-~ - description of th- tr:ct o~~a~c __: __ ----=---- ~-< {Hy;f-~ ~~-- ----/ I_, ___ , :- ___a_-r-~-~-~ ---~------~ -- ~ - ----------------------- --- - ----- - ------ ----- - ----- -- ---- -------- - -- ( Continue remarks if necessa~ o~ he back). ~y signature ~1~my name and mark attached hereto) this __~ _____ _day fl)!;~~ ;~~~~~;~~. l~~~TY OF_;e,~;z-----2t~~~---------- 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, th / / J/ 3 I i•--= : ; ;_--= da: ~oL? ~--- 1/ -__;;;~ / · / 7 ~ I ~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ al -- vesti;tor-or Notary Public, or Justice of ne Peace. 3&.:, �Claim of_ ______ ~ In the Circuit Court o L _ ~ ~ ~ - C o u n t y , Virginia, No. ________, At Law. ::e:,ta:: _Commiss)t:,o ~ : n ~ v e l o p m e n t of the State_of_Virginia, Peti- J'r, ~- ----------------------------- ________ _ --------------------- .-~ ---------.... ------------ ------------ -. --..------------ ---------more or less, of land mfl(.~~,AA .~-~,,.J __________ County, V1rgmia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the etition 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 o L ~~ ~ - County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to sajff' petition and to said notice. ~~-k-~ -------------------------------------- My name is ____ ~iy post office address i s - - - ~ - r - -U--~--- ------------ ------------ --I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ ___g~~ -- _______ acres, on which there are the following ~~~~~~~~:-~~~-~~~:_o-~em~~-~~:::~~:~::=::~ :::::::: ;:z______ This land is located about_ ___ miles from_ ~ qf _ ~ - --Virginia, in theJ ~__ Magisterial District of said County. I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in the tract or parcel of land described above: (In this space claimant should say whether he is sole owner or joint owner, and if joint owner give names of the joint owners. If claimant is not sole or joint owner, he should set out exactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) -~----~ -~-~- - & .£L ~ - ~ i f d ------.. . --12- ~ -------------------------------------------------------------The land o,vners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North ___ ~ ~-.la.~ -~ ~ ~ ------------ --- - ------------ ------ - South ___ East ___ ~ -f;_~--------------------------------------- ,&~ ~ -- f t ~ ----------------------------------£_ ' _ West--- ~ --L- h ~------------------- --------------------------------I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year_/2LB :__in the follo'lf:Lmtl:'.v ~f _h-<t.t.er:¾,:-~ _::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvement s thereon is $-/-0-~_<.)_.Q.,_(l_-r)__ _ I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or pa~el of land with the improvement s thereon is $--~]J'_Q_cl!..~__D __ . I am the owner oL __/1!1}__ ____ ____ 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 pro- ------- - ------------ ------- - --------- - ------ (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). of itne~s- mY_:~~:~~1~my namend~a:~-: ~~ ~~::=:~:~ ATE OF IRGINIA, COUNTY OF_~ ~ - , To-wit: The undersigned hereby certifies thaL ______,_11('_~ - ~------------ ---------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, is-~ ~;---:- : oL_;z:4:- -:~:,;tP~blic :~~ ~CZ fiE nvestigator-or , or Justice othe Peace. th / // ~ ~~ �- '--- '-..__,,- Claim of______ ~Lh~-A ~------------------------------------------In the Circuit Court of_'}1.b_~ -~-- ~ - - - C o unty, Virginia, No, ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conse tion and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs, ____ ft1 fr~--------------------------------------------------------------- ~~;~-~;1~~~~-;i1~~a-i~ -=--=--=====-=~~~~=~~c;~~~;:vi;~;;i~~-D~f~~-d~~~-------The undersigned, in answer to the etition 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 s~ petition and to said notice. · My name is ____ ftL.7,f-, ~ --------------------------------------My post office address is ___ .tr;~~r--~ -----------------------------I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ ___i_'1-:-_ .6. _______ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: ___________________________________________________________ _ This land is located about__L ~ ------miles from_.12.~_:t_~--- Virginia, in the_c 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.) ------- - - -- ~u----f:!J_J -~ - ---- ------ - -------- ---------------------------- w~ rh The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: I f / ~ ~ ------------------ North_. J+.~ .4 _ South ______ a,_,_(3, ,/(;)_Jj!_gf,,~-----~----------------------------------------East ___ __ t'p~ ~)+~~ ---------------------------------------------West_ ____ Jy.,Luc£e__. _4- -~ --~-- ~ ---I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year_J_!}_ j_~_in the following manner: c,,. ©.~ °F ____________ ak ~ --Pf _P6-l)-.,L_JL_'J14 ~~ _______________ _ I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $_;z...d..a..d-1_<)_u____ , 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 $__ /_0_4_ <-2·-~__c(__ . I am the owner o L ~-~cres 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 }and b~ met~ and b~1£Y1~) . ,/ / . . Remarks: _J,&1.._ .l__'ld-14.~_f e_~ tu__ _f e ~ -~ -~ - -~ ~---~ ( _ ~---~ --- $..;i£dAlldet~ A.k-_,txr_f!_~~-kf._.k1d,~--~- 1 t R - ~ - ~-H4--&-:7-ill_~_e-~_J:4 _______________ _ ------------------------------- ------------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). of_ W;~~;::~~~:~~r1~~my nam~~:~~-:~e~o~~~~~d:~ X?t~-1-n--------, STt;-~;1IRGINIA, COUNTY OF To-wit. The undersigned hereby certifies th~~:[jf_~JJJ_'..,R_~-------------------the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath that the matters and things apP.earing in his ~ e answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, day oL~ ~- --- --~ 19 . ~~ this __ _____ Lp ______ ?-//3-/:J-/ M ·/4 ~ ~ _ /1/ ··- ,._ / . ---------------~ - - ------_ o the Court, or Special estigator or ---- -- C Notary Public, or Justice of ~~ e Peace. 3':>l �_,_--~ ~--------------------- of}U;_f£l.J~ Claim In the Circuit Court o f ~ ~ C o u n t y , Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs.__ , , < ) ~_ ~ -------------------------------------------- --- -----------------. ·/.J .: .:;z~ - - - - - - - - - - - . -. .---------------------- more or less, of land m/ -~ ~ _ __ _____ _County, V1rgmia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petiti of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the ing of said ·petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit - County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this ~ _ Court of as h:ya~:: :_m:_rn_:~ o sai~ ~o~~~e~ ___ '\ --------------- 7/47 _ -----~.t/_~ - ----~---My post office address is__ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interi:,t jn a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ _____ .!Q,. ________ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements: _____ _________________________________ _____________________ _ ~~~:;~:~~:~;:;;;:~:~~~~~iie:{~~~~~~~;~-;~ 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 of1 ~~~!bed above. )n ~,1 ~ r _ ~ h_G u / _ a d _ f 6 ~ ~-.'~~~-~~~-~- - --- ----- - _,_ s_~~------- ~ _JL~ f:~~ ~:~ -: ~: ~ :d_IT~-c:_: _pa: :~:~-~ ~:-~ :_: :~l~ ~ V, ---- ---- ~ --------------------------------------, 4 - _ West_ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this· property about the year_(~ - ~ ---in the f:;;~e~41/jp~ - - ~ ~ ~-~ $-~w. ~--· Jt ~ f-2~-clai-- t at~~~. , , . - ~ ~ ~ with the improvements there- I claim 0iat 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 ~ ~tli.;(-6'/ I am the owner of_ __ 11 ,:. _______ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying o~~ 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 . . , t s and bounds). description of t~ / ~ract or par.eel of land by meE &farks: -!f<X7f-, ___ __ ~ ' : d _ ~ 1U,(,--~ Lr1rflU4,_~-!~_--lM--ct---~ ~-_ p _ ~ ~ ~---~ ~ i t f : ! : : t J ~-~ ,,_-ZfilA£~' :tt;,~ ~ti/!:ff;_pue~:1};i;;_/:Jt::::-,~~ :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~ of_~ ~-:~~:~~l~ my name and :::~ ------ - ----, To-wit: STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF_ ~ ,,,.,.._,,..., _ ---------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies thaL l l " h -~--~ 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 :e_est of his knowledge and belief, th ~/;3 / I 31 i•- ~ j7 -- ~ ay,,: - hn / · ~ ~ ~~M--~;- 7 d:= ____ ~ al Investigator or Notary Public, or Justi~ of the Peace. �-- County: Rockingham District: Stone a ll County: Greene District: .onroe ,'/179 - Se l lers, ~ .. creage Cl a imed: Value Claimed: Locat ion: • & E. B. 203 .Assessed 203 a . " $2430.00 10 , 000 . 00 None kno n . ~andy l oam off i r de ~t h n~d f e r ti l ity. The ~c oded part is very rocky and the all.opes a re moderate on the gr a zi ng l a nd and s teep on the t i mber ed portions. The first ol ass gr a zing 1 ..nd as a fa ir s od wi th consi derable blue g r a s s , some sheep sorrel a~d weeds. There is some loose r ock and patches of poor so il. I t s pe sup badly i n t he i nter, There is very little uter on the tra ct. The s econd olass has thi n s od, many , bl a ckberries, more r ock and s ome br ush l hoads: 1..i ght mi l e s over good di rt road t o Yancey, t he nearest s 'l ip.:.. ping poi nt .. Bistoty: or / f , / ./ ,/ tf ' ,i • (1919) 4000 .00 Top of t h e Bl ue Ridge nortll o:f Si mmons Gap, l yi ng i n both Ro ck ingham a. <l Greene count ies, and ent i rely wi t hi n t he Park ar ea. I ncumbrances, counter cla i ms or laps: .§2!1: Deed: 20 3 ,· t r act and condition o f timber: The tru c t has been cut over at v·1r1.ous times. Most of the stand is dead che stnut up to 30" DBH 1th sca ttered red oa k u p t o 24 f' DBH and :vi t h occa siona l sma l l er trees of pop l a r, ash and chestnut oak nd t here ha s been no fire s in t he pa st several ye a rs. It i s esti"lated t o c t 25 M. sa w timbe r valued 'it 2 . 00 ----v 50 . 00 500 cords of ext r a ct ood valued oO•) l ocus t posts val ued 5¢ ;/ 15¢ ------- - 75. 00 25 . 00 $150 . 00 :tmpr$vements: Tenant house: Fr ame l 6x29', 4 rooms, 2 story, porch 6xl6' , good condition 400. J O ----- I\ ~ : Fr ame lox30', meta l roof, poor condition 300 . 00 ;\ Hen house: Log l 6x8', 35. 00 Spri ng house : 8x8', s hingle roof - 10. 00 r: /. ,' 145. oo f ( \ 1 \\ l. Value\ of l a nd by types: Rockingham Type 4 Slope i'1 Acreage County. Va Jue per acre 68 $2.50 Fg I ·~ Fg II / 53 65 35 . 00 f .· Fe \ \ ( 18~ Tot a l t ulue of orcha rd 34 . 00 Tot ~1 ;value or l and 3210. 00 Total value of i .::uprovemen t s 745.00 Tota l va lue of timber 150. 00 Tota l v lu~ of tra ct 4l39.00 Ave r age va lue per a cr e 22 . 02 17.00 40.00 Tota l Value 170 . 00 1855 . 00 1105. 00 80. 00 3210.0(} �County: Rockingham District: stonewall County: Greene District: Monroe #179 - Sellers. ; . ~. & • B. - Sellers, w. W. & E. B. (Rockingham. Co.) (Greene County) # Cont'd ~lue ot land by types: (Greene County) Total Value Value per acre Acreage $35.oe 15 $S25.0o Total value of land $525.00 Total value ot tract 525.00 Average value per aore 35.00 SUh,!L\RY Rocki ngham & Greene Counties. Slope Fg I Fg II Fe A. @ C 3.50 35.00 - 68 A . $170.00 2380.00 65 A. @ @ 17.00 40.00 - 1105.00 80.00 68 2 A. 2.03 A . tro ta l number or a eres 203 Total value or land $3735.00 ) 3'1s5.l5o 1.1 ,.,() () Total value ot impro- 745. 00 Total value of timber-150.00 Total value of tract 4530.00 Average value per a cre$22.98 ..t-¢.~v •; '',,' '- ' \' ' \ ' '\ ,, .\ �- - ~ ~ - - - - - - - ------~·- - County: Rooldngham District: stonewall County: Greene District : Monroe h'l79 - Sellers, - Sellers w. v. iv. w. &: !!i. B. &. E. B. (Rockingham Co.} Greene Count Cont'd {Greene County) ~alue ot land by types: 15 Total value of land Total value o:r tract ~ verage value per acr-e Total Value per acre .Aoreage Value $35.06 $5~5.oo $525. 00 525.00 35.00 ·,· SUMMARY Rocki ngham & Greene Counties. Slope Fg I Fg II Fe 68 A. 68 A . 65 A . 2 A. 203 I. 2.50 35.00 l?.00 40.00 Total number of a ores 205 Total value of land 3735.00 Total value of 1mpro- 745.00 ) v.,,IIJ o Total value of tract· 4630.ob Average value per a ere$22.98 ..t ~ ~<1 •; - $170.00 2380.00 1105.00 80.00 5'135.60 Total value of timber-150 . 00 \ ' ." \' '\ \ '\ \ ,. .z '\" ' \· \ ' 'I \ \ ~('. I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context sellers-w-w-and-e-b.pdf Title A name given to the resource Selllers, W. W. & E. B. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Top of Blue Ridge 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): 179 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 Sellers https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/fab466fad59b7f3156275de246c04c35.pdf 93c489436c74589b5f241db331d74049 PDF Text Text ROCKINGIDil:i COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT J260 - Shaver , - · L. & ~- A. Number of Acres: 102 Location: Big Run . Roads: Four miles over county road to Island Ford . Soil: Slope . Entirely ·within the Parle area . .l".1.ll merchanta ble timber has been removed from this tract and the fire has burned over it repeatedly . History of Tract and condition of timber: Improvements: NONE . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: ,)5 . 00 102 ~510 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking : Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 510 . 00 Value of Improvemen ts: $ 50 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ 50 . 00 $610 . 00 Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 50 . 00 Value of Wood: $ 50 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 6 00 • Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ N01'T , • , ~---~--t --~- --___/4__,-~ _ CL•,RK . 70 �..__., SA Claim of_ _______________ ttv er-------------------------------------- -------------In the Circuit Court of_ __________________________ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. ________________________________________________________________________ _____ _ more or less, of land inRQC¥_lDKil~IT1-------- _______ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of..RQg.ki:DKr.!~~------------ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. · _____ Mar~in a. Shever,Agent,for the heirs of W,A.Shaver,Dec1. My name 1s . ____ ________________________________________________ _________ _ My post office address is_ BJ.!.QD13-J1~_0J!2__'{~-------------------------------------I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ __lJ)R_ ___________ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements :___ JJ!l_~IEPY-~Y-~~-------------------------------------------- This land is located aboutS_i~J_(i)__ ___ miles fromP..o.rL.Ee_p.ubJ._lg~gr_tJ}_ ___ Virginia, in stonewall . t etia . 1 D.1st r1ct . of sa1"d County. th e______ ___ _____ ___ Mag1s 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.) ______________ Am_j_Qi-ri_t_.P_~J;J.§_~_~1_itb_JJeir.s__o.f'__J _. __J ..,_.Shaver-,-de-G-gas-e4-------The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follows: North __ By the _Big_ Survey -------------------------------------------- - -------South __ B..y._.the __c_ocfilon__E3_tQ~_e._ _____ ______ ____________________________________ _ East ___By Blue_ R id_g_e _ Moun t a in __ __ ______ _____________ ____ _______ _____ ______ __ West_ __ By the _200_ acres _ of _ land _sold to_ Charlie _Marshal 1 __________ _ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year __192-0___ in the following manner: ______ pt death of father 1.._W. _P . _Shaver_ who died_ in _May_ 1920 ___ __ __ ___ _ ~ '~ I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $__i9.QQ-'_Q_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 $--1000.00.-----· I am the owner of_ ___ _____ ___ __ __acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $- -----------------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if -practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks· Upon _ the_ above _ lc:..nd _ u --.c;-e, _is _a miner>al_mine ____ ___________ _ - ------ --------- -------------- -------------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). Witness my signature (or my name and mark attached hereto) this __ __ __ ___ ______ day ~~~;~-~;-~;~~;~~~, l~i~NTY Agent for heirs of w. A. Shaver Deed. - ~ ~ ~ ! n t__________ _ OF The undersigned hereby certifies that~ ~- - - K - - ~ ~ - - - - - - - - --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 _______ L_£ _____ day ~l~rtice of_ ~~ ~ - - - - - - - - . - - - - - - - - el:erk of .Notary e ~ ~ , 1 Special Investigator of the ,P,,oee. ~ / / - /'f.:r v"' OY �County: Rockingham District: s tonewai1 11 260 - A. L• . & VI • A. Shaver Acreage Claimed: 10 2 A. Asses ~ed: 102.40 Value Claimed: ·iooo . Deed 102 .. 80 acreo n 1\)0 9 for ~;!330 - AREA: 93 li. . Location: ~ Big Run. ' ~ntirely within tbe l ark area . .§.21b: Slope . Roads! 4 miles over county road to Island :i·ord . History: All merchantable timber has be c,n removed from this tr~ct and the fire has burned ovor it repeatedly. Improvements: None. Yal]!e of land by tves: ~ slop e Value ,ner acre Area •1.. ""153 Total value of land 1 / 'vi $116 . 25 Total va lue of improvements Total value of timb i::r Total value of tract Average value per acre ,) 116 . 25 9r-. ... v Total Value ')'~l16. 2'5 �'/2GO - A . . (~ • .:. • • CL11ver ---------- County: .oe;,;:in0 lmm Di st 1·i e;t: Stone ,mll N John l . I ~Cr ~ ...:I) Slo,;e . . . co.le - l·' - '2U chuins - - -'Jf.,, � 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 Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shaver-a-l-and-w-a.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shaver, A. L. & W. A. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Big 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): 260 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 Shaver https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/3f50230537f81739be18de4b4435eb35.pdf 93d90b5a109c9304f265045e0f02c231 PDF Text Text ROCKI~'Glli ! COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #353 - She f f ey Number of Acres: 5 Entirely within the Park area . Location: Neck Run. Roads: Four miles via dirt road to Port Republic . Soil: Slope type; sandy loam; fairly smooth ; moderate slopes. History of.Tract and condition of timber: All the merchantable saw timber has been removed from this tract . The remaining stand of small hardwoods have been practically all killed by a recent severe burn . Improvements: Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 5 ~5 . 00 125. 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: · Orchard: Minerals: 10 . 00 Value of Land:$ 25 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ 10 . u 0 Value of Minerals : $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ 10 . 0 u Value per acre for tract: $ 9 • 00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . 10.00 .;;,45 . 00 �'----- ,;ounty; • ook1nah D1utr1ctt Stone~oll ta•eand , 0 tiold Bb e t, AJ)lHllt' od: ntly not ft~UOBdtlHi. Valne Cl . ed: Looatton: lack nun. Jone lii.nown -no de: - ~:oil; m1lee vt dirt rod to ~ort nepubl1o . .:,lo}) ty o. ~nndy l.o~m. 1"g1 rl.y ot.h. 1tnbe.r ho. l!oder to alop • · beon ~"fOd tro thl trt\Ct. ll h rdwoode havo been prootio lly all o,1r11,e.....n.,.t....,.s: 1>..;..;...... r.1_.2.... _l__ Old 1':rarr- d ellin~ 24 x 24 ft. o :root" l. :,tory. ton ct. V. lu for cod poo contli ion, r .. lend bJ: ty , ~lti.OO : alu l a ot lund otal v uo or 1.m-;;rovem t ':.o r;l Vftlue ot treat per oore. ver '!'o\nl ·1ar er • It Acron e 6 Toto ·e ·:r .oo l f3 .. nlue 315.00 vv l. .oo :;c). 00 o.oo l'i!I �.._________. coun ty : :.ocl;: in 111:..m Dist rict : 3tone uo.ll N • • ...,'ink L.'..G -::;?rn ,'.:3lope sc~le - l ' - 2 cn~ · ns � 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 Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context sheffey.pdf Title A name given to the resource Sheffey Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Neck Run Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 353 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 Sheffey https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/71722e6e592af7318663cf5ebb77399e.pdf 33ac7aad7bad2594460641430e4f44e6 PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #194 - Shifflett , 1~haz Number of Acres: 12 Location: One mile east of Yancey oti Gap Run. Roads: Two miles to Island Ford over county road . Soil: Slope . History of Tract and condition of timber: 'fhe cleared land of this tract has been cultivated for many years and the slope land is used chiefly for fuel wood . Improvements : Frame dwelling : 14}x22½', L 12½xl6~', 4 rroms, paper roof , brick flues , 2 story , ceiled walls , fair condition, occupied by o.mer, water supply - well, pillar foundation . Fil:'. ame barn : 12½xl7' metal roof with shed 10xl6', fair condition. hnpontwm ·Log house : 16-~x20~', paper ro of , fair condition . 8xl0 ', fair condition. Hen liouse: Acreage and value of types: Types Total Value Value per acre Acreage Ridge: Slope: Cove: - $5 . 00 c:;::--,- 3 $15. 00 Grazing Land : Fields Restocking: 7 @ 20 . 00 140 . 00 $1 5b . 00 Cultivated Land: Orchard: 2 100. 00 50 . 00 12 Minerals: Value of Land: $ 1 55 . 00 455 . 00 Value of Improvements: $455 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ 100 . 00 15. 00 ~725 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ ValueofWood: $ 15. 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 60 . 41 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ N0N.Z. ~ - ~ : CLl:RIC. �-..___... ~~a:e ~rcu~::t:~~ ~~-----County, ::e~t~: _Co~ =~ ___ j.._':l 1J-l. I ~ : s:p~ ; :d_ ~ ~nt - ~ L - ~ ___- - - - - - .-- Virginia, No.L~-~ -, At ~ ~ -of _;:rginia, Law. Peti- .J.--------------------------- --------------------- more or less, of land in_ ~_1:: :~- -~ ~-----Co unty, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_~~; ;_ { ~------- - County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is ____ .!LI,.,:,...,_ ,g_Lfbcf- __________ ________________________ _ _!'!::_J:~__ f!.?_._i::./!..._ ____________________ ____ _ My post office address is __ __4:f:..~_ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_.6~ :~!~~-- --acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements =- --~ /---~ & : : :_~:~____ !'__ / _ ~ ~ ---------- - · 1an d 1s · 1oca t ed ab ou t -;z:~ L'--'-"-,,,Tl11s ld.-,~v*7.------'-;;,4.-c-__,M CL./d~-v · · m· --------m1·1es f rom __~::-:.=-=----------- ·1rgmia, the_ i:~~!.: ½___ 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, e state or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) The land owners adjacent to the above de scribed tract or parcel of land are as follows : North ___!a-,/. 1~~ South ___ a+-/. n- _L-v -------- ------ - - ---- -------- ----- ---------- --- ------- -East ___ S-i-j,_c_______________________________ _____________________________ _ & ,-------------------------------------------------------- 7 .~ West __ __J_ _~ _v--~ -7<.tl'-t..--l....LL-'7' ---------- ------------------------------ _______ _ I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year__/Jl~t.['f_ _in the following manner: _/ft A_~ _t ~ h~ _9J..41;:~,,~-Hr _J«.7 'N/flJ~ + 7 ~~ ~~- ~_ / ?IZ -. J-%~ LafJf~' ;) '1!ifl4: :4~, :;;,,j._ I f; f/- _________ _________ I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements there,-v on is $-2--..,f'_q_q_.,!.:-:-____ . I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or in~ est, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $-b r~-~-:'__:-.: ___ . I am the owner of_ ___ ,k·__________ 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 an y additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds) . Ren1arks · ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- --- - ----- ---------- ---------- ---------- --------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). Witness my signature (or my name and ma~ ¥tach~he reto ~ this ____ ~ ______ day Wt-~ ~~ ~ of_ __b _'-----------, 193f . SThE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF_/g8____ ~-------- .-------, To-wit. . - "tr-· ·~ The undersigned hereby certifies that_ __(k-:h.d!::-:1___~----- ------ ------ --the above named claimant personally appeared before hi~-irrcr -~acfe-~ath that the matters and things app: lring in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, this _____ k~_:: _____ day of_ __ 193/. -:~~ - f~---------, / ~ir:~ -J-1-1t~:-C::t ~cial In~ gator or Public, or Justice of the Peace. �County: Hockinghsm District: Stonowall J i 194 Ahnz Shittlett Acrea~e Claimed : Value Cla imed: Location: ~: 14 A • '1:2000. Assessed 12 A ~ " Deed 240. One mile east of Yancey on Gap Hun cquired 1911-12 & 14 for ~205.00 4 ARBAl 12 A. Slope Roads: History: 2 miles to lslend Ford over oounty road The cleared land ot this tract ha s be en cultivated tor many years and tho slope land is uaed chiefly tor ~~el wood. There is no merchantable timber on this trect. note: This tract is ent ire.l.y '171. thin the Pnrk area. I mprovements: Frame Dwel.ling 14 1/2 x 22 2/2. L 12 l/2 x 16 1/2 • 4 rooms paper roof, brick t lues, 2 story, ce1led wells, feir condition, occupied by owner, water s 1pply--well, toundationpille.rs " 300.00 Frame Barn 12 1/2 x 17, Uetal root, \'1th shed 10 x 16 fe.i r condi tion. 75. 00 Log house , 16 1/2 x 20 l/2, paper root, fnir condition 40. 00 lien house, 8 x 10 , f'a ir condition 5.00 420.00 Timber: Fuel wood 20c ds . " 50¢ per ed. 10.00 Urchard: 2 acres ~~O per Acre 100. 00 Val.ue of l and by tYl)es: ~Po;e Acreage 3 F C 7 2 Orchard Value Total per acre valu e \ 7.00 20.00 "'21.00 140.00 161.00 12 Total 'V8l. ue or land Total Talue or orchard Total 'fal.Ue ot improvenents Total value of timber Total val ue ot tract 7'ferege VPlue per acte ~ 161.00 100 . 00 420.00 10. 00 691 . 00 5?.58 _ _ _ _ _ _ Jl/2. �-#194- Shifflett , Ahaz Mrs . Emma Gibbons v. Yost , Tr . LEGEND : Slope Orchard Tillable Scale - l u = 20 chains County : District: Rockingham Stonewall � 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. 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Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Naylor, Cassie - Shifflett, Ahaz Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shifflett-ahaz.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shifflett, Ahaz Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Gap 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): 194 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 Shifflett https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/8f7890d8fbc3baca4f5220aa2f358d0a.pdf ed63cfd8b3a9433d64a0c8eb7f138fb4 PDF Text Text ROCY.:I!~G l-LJ.. COID:1J.'Y NAME OF CLAIMANT #177 -- Shiff l ett , Alex. Number of Acres: 45 Location: Hawksbill Creek and is entirely rithin the Pa r k ~rea. Roads: .i. Soil: 1 ine mi l es to ~lkton over five mi l es of county road and four mi l es over Spotswood ~rail . Sast ,::.nd north slope of very good de1ith 1.111d fertility . History of Tract and condition of timber: .all saw tir:ber ht.s been renoved from the wooded portion of this truct l eav_inr-: un ~stimated araount of 200 cords . Note -- This tract was partially surve yed and it is believed the ac reage given him is correct . Improvements: Frane dwelling : 18x l9', 3 rooms, porch 7xl8', shinr le roof, stone ~luas , li story , lo< w lls, :'.:1ir conu.i ion , occupied by tenunt, spring, pillar founclL..tion • . Fra.·i}a, 1Gx36xl4' , metal roo:f.' , good condition . B:....rn : Stor'.3.ge house : Log , 11x1.;x12 1 , sll ngle roof , poor condition . 1'r~.me, llx20xl0 ', r.ietbl roof , cood concli tion Hew l1en house : Acreage and value of types: Types Value per acre Acreage Total Value Ridge: Slope: 15 '11'4. . 00 ~)60 . 00 15 25 . 00 375 . 00 15 30 . 00 450 . 00 $885 . 00 6;J0 . 00 50 . 00 50 . 00 1 63.., . 0Q Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 885 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 6.5 0 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ ::.iO,. 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ 50 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 36 . 33 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract~.N~ - ~ �+.~ .SL __ - ------------------------------- Claim o L ~ In the Circuit Court of_/_(_~-~ ______ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. ~he State Commission on Conservat· and~ De~!o~_>of the State of 'Cirginia, Petitioner, a.,~_-:Y7 _____ -.------ ---------------- ---------------- -----------more or less, of land in_,_~~- _ ___ ~--County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the peti n of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the fi"g of ai_d petiti n .and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of1.LIJ_ __ __ _ ~ - County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this V~·----- ~~~~-- s~r-r--l l_;___ ~------ --___ lfX- as ~ya:::: ::_:a'.~-~~~~~ ___ S,,g;,~U _______ /!t~-:_______ _ ~~~'a _f~---------- My post office address is ___{l_,J_,__ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel o land within the area sought to _be_ condemn~d, containing about_ _____ acres, on whic)i thz: are the following ¥- -:-______ ¼ . -_ ---/P~- -IJ~:-- ~ - -- ________ ,,A_~,- ~~-~_£ __ _ ;~:.~~uf!_~~;I~~-;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~;;~~;~:;~ bm~s~~d- 1~~rovements: ___ ----~-----~-1--- the_£~-tN--~ 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 par~~ land described above9 . . - i i P ' ~ - ~~ - - ~ - ~ ~- --- -- - - -' , -------+--- ---------~- ~----- The land owners ~djace~~t~above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North ___ de.a.. _________~._ --------------------------------------------- South____ East ____ -~.hl~--S~-- _ --~---------------------------------------xip:-e~ Qf,p ___ _.,__ _----------------------------------------------7 West______ -~--~~-·-- ------------ ------------ ------------ -1 acquired my ght, title, estate or interest t<Ythis property about the year __ /_9._L~_in the following manner: .... /__ . . /_ . -----~r ~~P~- Q~---- ------- ------- -- I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $_2.A_~!?_::_IJ_~--- 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 $- ~P-!>__'!~.5!.-~-· I am the owner of__d__"!_ ____ ____ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $---=-=-==-----------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds ). Remarks·----- ---------------- ---------------- ------ ---------------- - -------------- ---------------- ---------------- ------------ (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). Witness my signature (or my name and m..J,1i~ttached hereto) th1)-p_--};f/J~ay oLJ;-d,________, 1931. ~de.J_~---- STATE OF~~OU N:Y OF___~7'----- -~-, To_-wi) ;~. The unde~filed here y certifies thaL __~ - 4 - . n _ ~ __&~_ _ ___ --~the above named claimant personally appeared before him and made oath the matters h Cl andrtlnn.o-s app~i~g in his ab~e answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, . d. f I1e in t e enn; \Jfrrct:f'·L / Rockingrham,,CoM\~-Va, - __<,__~ ____ day of_~ FL. lo ;;.. . . , ~ -~--L----::~-~~~~"'.L~- ~~· ,..J ~tG'.1 Clerk /f'ti.~~~rt, or Investigator or Notary Public, or Justice of the Peace. 343 �Co D1 t ty: t· • • • 92. 00 ,ooo. ill • r r Inc 0 l: d st re of cou t t1 11t . ro d poor ood - -- .,..,._ .. -....... nts --- ~I �//177 - Shif ... lett , ..__lex ". · Count:r : Rocking ham Distri ct: Stone; mll Y. R. & G. _r. :ri. V. Seller s .J, soph Wood Sl:if:'l et L ..A, ..::·""TI Slol-'e - _1 illable Grazin g Su ..... 1e - l" - '30 c_ ins � 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 Shifflett, Alex - Shuler, James Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shifflett-alex.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shifflett, Alex Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Hawksbill Creek 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): 177 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 Shifflett https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/e8d799ed66f9079315fabb3661d2641f.pdf eed2466b32575b838cb5a492ffd366e9 PDF Text Text - - - - -- -.... -- - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - COUNTY ~.,-- - -ROCKINGHAM NAME OF CLAIMANT /11_? 8 - Shifflett , Ambrose Number of Acres: 272 Location: Hawksbill Creek, and is entire ly within the Park area . . Roads: ' Nine miles to Elkton over five miles of county road and four miles over Spotswood Tr 11 . Clay loam of good depth and fertility . Soil: History of Tract and condition of timber: _J Improvements: (See . reverse side) Acreage and value of types : Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 112 @ $3 .00 $336.00 Cove: 90 @ 5 . 00 4 5 0.00 Grazing Land: ?0 272 2450 ~00 $ 3236 . ocr- 35 . 00 Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: 1400 . 00 V~ueofLand: $3236 . 00 250 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 1400 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ 250 . 00 2230 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ 50 . 00 $?166 . 00 Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber:$ 2230 . 00 Value of Wood: $ 50 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 26 • 30 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . ~ - ~CLERK, 75 �IMPROVEMENTS: Barn: Log, 16x4 9', poor cond ition. Corn house : Log, poor cond ition . Spri ng house : Frame , 8xl5x 8', metal roo f , fair cond ition . Hen house : Frame , 6xl6x 6', paper roof, poor cond ition . Pigeo n house : Frame , 12xl2 x8', s hingl e roof, cond ition . Dwel ling: Log and frame , 16x3 3', 5 rooms , porch fair 8x23 ', metal roof, stone f lues, 3 rooms oeile d , occup ied by tenan t, sprin g, solid found ation . Barn : Log and frame , 26x4 5xl6' , shing le roof, fair cond ition . Old grana ry: Frame , 12x2 0xl2' , shing le and metal roof, poor condi tion . Shop- Frame , 12xl6 xl0', paper roof, fair cond ition. Sheep hous e: (new) frame , 15x30 xl2', metal roof, good cond ition. Cow shebl e: Frame , 10xl6 xl0', paper roof, fair cond ition. �~ Jr' Claim of_ _____________________________ _ In the Circuit Court of_ __________________________ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. _____________ ________________________________________________________________ _ more or less, of land in ____________________________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ _________________________ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this ot· e. as his answer to said petition an t sai cl--/}~'-:' _______ · ______ 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 acres, on which there are the following to be condemned, containing about_ __ .2,_.7-~ _______ buildings and improvements:_~, .&.= , _~ ~ -~ ··-:::::::::::::::::::: __ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: located abo~L-~-~-:--~-miles ~rom __H ______ : ____________ Virginia, in -~ This Jand is the~ Mag1ste:rrnl D1str1ct 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 W la:td described above.) ------------------------------------------------------- -----~--- ~ The land owners adjacent to J,he ~b?ve described tract or parcel of land are as follows: ,fl.-¥::·l>-e North__)4/'~ _ ~ South 1;_: East ___ > ... ijilii_J. ______ West.. S.~ _ -~ --------------------------------------------- ~ A ;, ___________________________________ _ ~ ~--'ifa./--~ {__ ------ ~ _______________ _ ------------------ ------------------- I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year l....zl~-~!-fin the following manner: I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $_ls:;_rt!_-~'J- ~ --· I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $J_f!.'-Q _~!f_~ · I am the owner oL_~ -1 - ~ ------acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $-=-----------------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). _ _ :~~~r:~~~~~::~~~~~:~~~~~~~~~~~:~~:~~~~~~~~::~~~:~; ~: : : : -------------------------------------------- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). t' oLiA_=~-s~~:~~r1~ 3 my name an~~ ~-~~-eto) ~his~~~-~~:,:_~~~~~~~~:~ STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF ____________________ ------, To-wit· j The undersigned hereby certifies thaL_q.,_m_.__ __ the above named claimant personally appeared before him and ma e oath that the matters and things appearing in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, --'Ja.-""C.<LC this ____ - __L;z. _______ day of___ *~----::~-1~~ __ Cle~Y,tf~ Court, or Special Notary Public, or Justice of ------------- �C nty: 4 oc kinghru:1 District: Stonewall l/:l 78 Acrcnae Claige~ : Value Cl aioed : - Shifflett, A:c1brooe 272 Assessed 272 A. • ,10,06~ 11 1620 . 00 " (1912- 26 ~3650 .Q0 ABF,A,1 1320 A, ' --- Deed 272 , • Rawkob ill or1;ek and io anti.re l y w_ th n t.:...e lark arJa . Location : lfote -- It is be l ieved there \·:ere errors in t r e ·cooput o.tions of the e.cr . . age of tno var· ous t1'a.cts na ~1ng u1, t;Jio L-ra.ct and t.mt .r . S11ifflett owuo all the acreage that has been given :1it1 . Incut1bra .. c eo . counter ,cla.tns - O!" l a.pa : llona known . noi l: Clay loat1 of good <.lep t n a d fertility . Roads : Nine oil ea to Elkton over five nilea of count road und four ni l o ov r "poto ood Trail . History of t re.ct e.nd cond i tion of t inber: Tae woodlo..,d as an eotinated stand of 355 ,000 bd . ft . of saw ti 1be~· . 40 cords of loc ust• 2000 cords of extract a. ..d 200 cords of ul1.i , ood . \. .:_.,ortion of L e tract .10.0 been 11ea.vily cut over . 1600 . 00 'l'il:1ber : '75,000 ft . - .t'oylar @ $8 . 00 .i:,er l! . 24d,ooo ft . white$ red oak r .14 . 00 )er M.... .... 960 . 00 00 . 00 40 , 000 ft . 1ickory th ..,,2 . 00 per 1: . ---1 6 0 . 00 40 cord L locJst O ) 4 . 00 ~er c ord ·--250 . 00 1000 co rds of t:xtrnct wood l- 25;.!' 1>er co.rd --400 . 00 200 cords of u l J ·~ J2 . 00 ~er co rd ---$ 2450 . 00 to : l3urn : Log , 1G~-,:9 r, 1,00 ... cowi.:.tion - ... o v:.:"'..lu • Cornnouae : Log, p o or condition - 1:0 value . Spring house ; Fraoe , £x.15x&• , netal roof, fair condit ion·-----Hen hou a: .Ercme , 6:~l cx:6 '. PO..t)er roof. poor condition ___ ,. ... 1condition i!J>eon houoe,. ____ : :?:·ru:1. 1 2xl 2.xB ', a:1ingle roof , fair _ Dwe ll in : Loe ant.. ... rar:w , l Gx.33' , 5 roo1:1s, :poroh x- , cetal roaf , ston~ flues, 3 ro oe C6il ed , '.~30 . 00 15 . 00 25 . 00 occu ie,1 by tBno.nt, o.,r.i.n& , solid fom. dat!on -Barn; Loe a.i f :rt-inc , 26x1~utl6 1 , ahlngl roof , 600 . 00 ----- 350 . 00 1a'ir condition Ol d 4 ra.nar;t: Frar,o 12x20.:; 12' , sh in 1 and netal roof , voor condition- --- - - ::»ho~) : Frar.1e, 12xl6xl0 .. J.l)er roof , fair oondit·neep houoe : ( new) Frane , l b..~30xl 2 ', n-tal ro,Jf , go~d condition -· ... Cow stabl e : :'ra.r1e lOx l GxlO 1 , pa .;r ro0f , fair 1 , condition ------- 20 . 00 40 . 00 250 . 00 35 . 00 tr-1 365 .oo �//:178 - h iff lett , 'mbroae Conttinued .,. __ Value of l and by t;:a>eS: ~ Slope Va lue .:£E_e age ;eer acre 165 J2 . 50 5 . 00 20 . 00 90 70 Cove Fg 325 Total To t al Total Total Total value v:·~lue value value of orchard of l and of i u rover.1 nts of' wi o b ..n~ val ue of t ract Av erag rJ value per acre )2l b . OO 2262 . ?;0 13,5 . 00 2450 . 00 >6292 . 50 19 . 36 Total Value ~~412 . 50 450 . 00 1400 . 00 '~2262-..5 0 �I1f THE' CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. The State Commission on Conser vation and Development of the state of Virgin ia, Petitio ner, At Law No. 18&9. vs. Cassan dra Lawson A.t kina and others , Defend ants. o/ day of J·a nuary, 1937, came Ambrose w. Shiffl ett,, and, on his motion , leave is given him to file his applic ation for the diabu.r sement of the swn of $7,166 .00, the amount of the award set out in the judgme nt of condem nation for On this, the Tract No. 17.8 and hereto fore paid into oou.rt. And 1 t appear ing to the Court that the said Ambrose w• . Shiffl ett is investe d wi t h a superi or or better right or claim of title in and to the said t ract of land No. 178 than any other person or person s, and that the r eaord of t his cause does not disclose any denial or dispute· by any party or person in intere st as to the t itle to said Tract No. 178 or to the procee ds arising from the condemna tion of said Tract wo. 178: And it furthe r appear ing to the Court that all taxes due on said tract No. 178 have been paid: Upon oonsid eration wher eof, it is consid ered and ordered by the Court that the said sum of $7,166 .00, paid into court by petitio ner a s just oompen sation for Tract No. 178, be paid to the said Ambrose w.Shif flett. And the Glerk of this Court is directe d to transm it a certified copy of this order to the Treasu rer of Virgin ia, who shall pay unto said Ambrose W. Shiffl ett the said sum of $7 ~166. 00, being . the amount of the ~ward set out in the judgme nt of condem nation for Tract No. 178, taking f rom a.aid Ambrose w. Shiffle tt a r eoeipt :' �---2.-therefor , and certifying au.ch payment to the Clerk of this Gour t for appropriate entry thexeof, a s requ.ired by law. z.nter. / �IN TH"E CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGH.AM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the Stat~ of Virginia, Petitioner, At Law No . 1829. vs. Cassandra Lawson A.tkins and others , Defendants. Comes now the u.nde.raigned and sho.vs to the Con.rt' that a judgment in rem has heretofore bean entered in this proceeding, condemning to the use of the · petitioner the fee simple estate in the tract of la.nd numbered as 178 and described in the report of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners appointed herein, and shown , numbered , and delineated on the Cou.nty Ownership Map filed therewith, upon payma.a"t into the custody of the Court of the sum set out in said judgment as cons ti tu ting the. award therefor as follows : Award on Traot No . 178, ------------ $7 , 166.00. That said tract of land No . 178 is composed of three tracts of land which were conveyed to your petitioner by the following deeds , to-wit: (1) Deed from H. R. Eiler and othe.rs , dated December 16 , 1912 , conveying 102 acres, said deed being of record in D. B.96, at Page 5,8 ; (2) Deed from Jesse Wyant and Martha J . wyant, his wife , dated May 27 , 1925, conveying 150 acres , said deed being of record in D. B.132 , at Page 306; (3) Deed from Jesse Wyant and Martha J . wyant , his wife , dated January 27,1926, aonvaying 20 acres , aaid deed being of reoord in D. B. 134 , at Page 174. That your undersigned ,on the date of the s a.id judgment in rem condemning the said traat of land,owned or was entitled to the fee simple i nterest in the said tract or in the proceeds arising �from the conde mnatio n thereo f. That no otheT person or person s than the unders igned are ent1t1 ed to shal'e in the distri butio n or the said award , and that all taxes on said traat of land have bean d11ly paid, Where fore , your 11ndersigned prays that he be na.de a party here·i n under the provis ions of Sectio n 21 of the Pu.blic park Condemnation Act , and that an order be entere d for the distri butio n of said sum set forth in said judgment in rem as const itutin g the award for the fee simple estate in said tract condemned as afores aid and for the payment to the unders igned of the said award , and which the 11ndersig ned avers is as follow s: Tract No . 178,- ------ ----$7 ,166.0 0. State of Virgi nia, ao11nty of Rockin gham, to-wi t: Ambrose w.Shi fflett , the person whose name is signed to the forego ing instru ment, this day perso nally appea red before me, the under signed , a Notary Pllblic in and for the County afore said in the State of Virgin ia , and, being first duly sworn , depos es and says that the facts given in the forego ing petiti on are true and corre ct to the best of his know ledge and belie f. �TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certi fy that the recor ds in my offic e do not conshow any delin quen t taxes again st the tr a ct of moun tain land taini ng 272 acres , heret ofore asses sed in stone wall Distr ict, t. Rocki ngham Coun ty, Virgi nia, in the name of Antbrose w.Shi fflet Given under my hand this 1st day of Janua ry , 1937. � 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 Shifflett, Alex - Shuler, James Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shifflett-ambrose.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shifflett, Ambrose Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Hawksbill Creek 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): 178 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 Shifflett https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/6bfc7f94111c68a69baf5f32d4853758.pdf acedefd68a7fa932753e4c0f0b881685 PDF Text Text MINOR ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ..._,,, CLAIMA~ NAME OFfJ)ll1JlJ,lf #150 Number of Acres: Location: Shifflett, Arias H. 167 Beldor . Two miles of fair dirt road to Swift Run ; Elkton . Roads: thence four mi es to Soil: Sandy gravel in some of the fields ~,ith good depth and fair fertility and steep to gentle slopes ; northwest and southwest exposure . A large portion of the tract \'las cleared many years ago grazed and cultivated since . The woodland is e~rimat•d to cut an average of 8 cords of fuel wood per acre . ( 584 cords) There are three walnut trees . History of Tract and condition of timber: Improvements: D'.. ELLING- - Frame , 14x26 t, 6 rooms , metal roof , porch 6xl6 ' , L part 14xl8 1 , brick flues, 2 story, 2 tooms ceiled and 4 plastered, fair condition, occupied by owner . Well water supply, pillar foundation . BARN : Frame 12x24xl8 ' shingle roof , ~·ii th shed 10x30 1 , DAIRY Frame 8x8x8 ', shingle roof , fair condition . WAGON SHED AND GRANARY : 16x20xl2 ' , fair condition . D',n,..:;LLING : Log a.naTrarife--;-T8x25 ' kitchen, 10xl4 ', porch 6xl4 1 , porch, 6x22 ', metal-and paper roof, l½ story, log finish, fair dondition, occupied by tenant -- pillar founda tion . LOG STABLE 16 x 20 1 , no roof , poor condition . OLD GRANARY: Frame, 14xl6xl0 1 , shingle roof , poor condition . HEN HOWE : Frame, 8xl9x7 1 , paper roof, fair condition-HOG PEN : Frame , 7xl4x6 ' , shingle roof , fair condition-orchard: 103 fruit trees . Acreage and value of types: Types Value per acre Acreage Total Value Ridge: 72 @ ,;~3 . 00 $216 . 00 Grazing Land: 19 @ 30 . 00 570 . 00 Fields Restocking: - - - - 17 @ 15 . 00 255 . 00 Cultivated Land:--- 59 @ 25 . 00 1475 . 00 $2516 . 00 Slope: Cove: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 2516 .oo Value of Improvements: $ 202 5 • 00 2025 . 00 Value of Orchard : $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ 200 . oo 200 . 00 Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ 50 . 00 50 . 00 --$4791 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 28 . 62 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ None . _ _ ~ : .~ '. ___ CLERK , l/5 �150 '.cr ee5 e Cla \m ed: V luc Clo t m d: !.QQ... tio n; Ino um bra - n. Co un ty: Roc:1ngham D1.s tr1 ot: Sto nm ,c. ll ri9 D Sht ffl et t . 16 4 A. ; sse sse d : 164 .~ . $60 00 . " 150 0. 00 eld or . , co un tor ola im s or luI?s: Deed: 100 J;. in 191 9 ~o r 270 0. 0; G7 • 1n 191 4 ro r ~eoo. oo none known . So il: Gandy s~ av el i some of the fe rti lit y and ste ep to g ntl efie lds wi th goo d do pth nnd ru tr elo pe s ; no rth we st and out hw est exp osu re • .Roa ds : o mi les ot fa ir di rt roa d to Swi ft '"lkt on . n ; the nc o f ou r mil es to .[1 sto Ty or tra ct and cor .1d it1 on ot tir.: .r: t .. lar ge po rti on of t he tro .ot woe ole are d many yea rs ago , i.b raz l nd 1,.., est lm ·;\t ~d t o cu t an ed nd cJ lti va ted sin ce . he wooduv reg e of 8 co da >f fu el er v lue d ood po r 2~ t pe r o? rd. ~84 cor do va l1e d tt 25d. -- 14 6. 00 . Th ree aln ut l • tre es va lue d 10 .00 eac h - ·-· so . oo To tal --116 . 015 Im rov t,m on ts: ~v ell 1n 5: .•r me l4x "(> L pe.rt l 4x l8' , bri olc tlu',ee6, roo ms , ma tal r o r , po rch 6x l6' , pla ste red , fo ir oo nd ttt on , occ sto ry , ~ r ooms coi lod and 4 up ied by ow ner , we ll , pi lla r tou ud •ti ~n --- ~ : l'raroe 2x2 4x l8' , sh ine 145 0. 00 a1 r2: ·ra e _xaxs•, ab inB l l r r,o r, l th she d l0x 50 1 235 . 00 8.PjOn s hod u ,d ran ury : l6x •>Q of , r ir co nd iti on -20 . JO xl2 ', ta ir co nd iti on - Dwo111 s:-og a 1i fra me , 18% 25' 7.J . 00 ox l4 1 , po rch ux 22 ' , me tal and , kit ch en 10 xl4 ', po roh f1n 1ch , fa ir con di t ion , oo ou pap er ro ot, 14 sto ry , log ptod by ten an t , pil la r fou nd tlo n - - --- tab o: l6x 20 ', no r oo f . po or 3~0 . 00 oo nd i t1o n - ld b~ i ry; -rame 14:xlOxlO', s h1 le r oo t , po or c on dit - :w .oo I..en e 8X l9x 7' , ,r,ar ,er roo l> . 00 ir co nd iti on -og non : ramram eu .oo e 7x l4X O', shi ng l e roo ff,, fa t 11r oo nd 1t1 on -• qro ha rg! 57 fru it tre eo va lue d 5.0 0 2. 00 p~ r tre e tor tre es on ly -- --46 rr1 it tre es va lue d ot · 1.0 0 pe r tre e, ! or tre es on l y 114 . 00 46 . 00 l a nd b, t;tJ?l!El: c2MS. oo Lo , ion-- ·------ Va lue T:£;.?8 Slo pe FS Fo Fr or Value ore n.6e 72 19 59 po r a.e re 1'1 e. oo 16 ' i2. do 20. 00 2.:>. 00 To tfl l Vc luo l44 . 00 380 . 00 147 5 . 00 10 2. 00 2101.00 �County: Rockingham District: Stonewall #150 - Shifflett, H. Arias I Cont'd Total value of land Total value of i mprov~ments Total value of t i mbe r Total val ue of truct Average value per acr e ~2101. 00 2345.00 176.00 ~4622. 00 27.67 5 �County: /istrict: N_ #150-=. .§.hi_fflet~ , H. Arias .., Shifflett I' • .s E. s Marv."yant Powell 1:t . Hebron 1lex E . tyant Church LEGEND: Slope Grazing Tillable Fields 1•estocking Scale - 1 11 20 ch~ins = Rockingham Stonewall �->ta na.rd svi l le .. 'ro Stat e Com miss ion on ~on serv atio n and Vev elop men t '· Vs . H. Aria s ohi flet t etc & otne rs Circ ~it cou rt of· rtock ingh am Cou nty , va . I H-aE~- xm10C H. Aria s Shi flet t est Circ uit Cou rt rlock ingh am Co,V a No - -- of 100 acre s adjo inin g and iher eas the trac t of land of 64 acre s and one the ~ar k z.xtk mtt µ auth orit ies as adja cen t to one ano ther , and take n ove r by of .ti . Aria s .;hi flet t , , this trac t one trac t of 164 acre s . that was in the ne.me day Of Janu ary 1932 . to one J!,r nes t ;:;}il. was sold by ~•ard Swank 'l'ru stee , on the 9th of conv eyan ce made by ard ~wank Shi flet t , and Ge r tie Shi flet t , and a deed ce of the 100 acre trac t to ~ru stee , that is he made a deed of conv eyan of reco rd in the Cler k ' s offi ce Ern est and Ger tie bhi flet t whic h is a mat ter of rtock ingh am ~ou nty, va . and and t assi gne d to .Leo ndas .H..o hifle lher eas ; the said .....rnes t and G-er tie .::>h iflet whic h is a mat ter of reco rd in Juli a M. ohi flet t his the 64 acre s- trac t inia in D.B . 151 . at pai;e l..1'1 said Cler k 1 s offi ce of rlock ingh am ~ou,1ty , •irg of said offi ce . and flet t died seiz ed ad all the l and of whic h the said H. Aria s Shi as here tofo re men tion ed, the and poss esse d , was sold unde r a trus t deed t and the 64 acre trac t to .Leo ndas 100 acre trac t to ~rn est and Ger tie Shi flet reco rded as such in the deed book R. Shif l ett and Juli a Shi flet t his wife , and Whe reas ; men tion ed abov e . And of the cou nty of nock ingh am te are fili ng this with the ~ark pap ers and esta te of H. Aria s Shi flet t coun ty , mer ely to show the titl e to said land of the said ~rn est and Gert ie is now lies in the nam e, and is the prop erty M. ohi flet t . ~hi flet t and .Leo ndas R. Shi flet t and Juli e / ,, I �R A NOO LPH W . BICKKIH, DKPUTY CLl!RK B . I. BICK ERS CLE RK O F G R E E N E C OU NTY COU R T S STANAR DSVIL L E , To Cler k of circ ~it cour t Harr isonb urg , Va VIRGIN IA Oc t. 31st 1933 Dear :::>ir; ,/ill you plea se filed the with in pape r with the rark files in your offic e in the matt er of H. Aria s ~hif lett , in orde r to show the title . Than king you in adva nce . Your s trul y . l\ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockingham County SNP Records: Court Proceedings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource The first series of the SNP Records collection consists of 4,756 documents related to The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia v. Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land, more or less in Rockingham County, Virginia, court case initiated by the state of Virginia in order to acquire 52,561 acres of privately held land located within the northern Blue Ridge Mountains.  The Virginia government in collaboration with the federal government, used condemnation, a process that involves the seizure of an individual's private property for public use, without the owner’s consent, but with payment of compensation, and more formally known as “eminent domain,” to create the Shenandoah National Park. The documents within the collection almost entirely refer to land located within Rockingham County, but other counties within the park’s scope followed a similar process to acquire the land. The documents are broken up into three categories: Deed Books, Miscellaneous Documents, and Condemnation Cases. This collection contains the Condemnation Cases. For more information on the Rockingham County Shenandoah National Park collection, visit the "<a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/findingaids">Finding Aids</a>" tab in the menu above. In the 1970s and 1980s many of the individuals displaced by the park creation were interviewed in hopes of preserving their stories. To listen to those records visit, <a href="https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/">https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rockingham County Circuit Court Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925-1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Snp001 Relation A related resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/2">Rockingham County SNP Records: Deed Books</a> <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/collections/show/3">Rockingham County SNP Records: Miscellaneous Records</a> <a href="http://catalog.lib.jmu.edu/record=b2286919">Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection</a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. <a href="https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/items/show/4526"> Shenandoah National Park Records Finding Aid </a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Shifflett, Alex - Shuler, James Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shifflett-arias-h.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shifflett, Arias Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Beldor 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): 150 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 Shifflett https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/79aa5cbc3b203269698f9e4363d575ad.pdf ac58561144f485a2c48217bfd18fc099 PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #369 Number of Acres: Shifflett , C. M. 5 Pe.rtly outside Location: Near Park positions #149 - 150 - 151 - 152 . Park area . Roads: Two miles · over county road to Island Ford . Soil: The present Tract has b.een out over repeatedly in the past . stand consists of mixed Otiks with a scrub oak under story. History of Tract and condition of timber: Improvements: Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 5 25 . 00 $5 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: 10 . 00 $35 . oo Value of Land:$ 25 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard: $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 10 . 00 Value of Wood: $ Value per acre for tract: $ 7 . 00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE. ~ . ~ 'CLEmc. 17 �----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -Claim of_ ______C, N( Sh ,'ffle fl--- ----- ----- ----- ----. .a, N o. ________ , At L aw. .,n_______ Count y, v·1rgmi 0-hc1 f-(,- 17 ""Rerc --- L --~-. ·t Court of --------I n th e C1rcm of the State of Virginia, PetiThe State Commission on Conservation and Development ___________________________ _ tioner, vs. __________________________________________________ ty, Virgi nia, Defen dants . more or less, of land in ___?c~<1Lu_u_~.h.s?J_7_7_____ ___ Coun ission on Conservation and DeThe undersigned, in answ er to the petiti on of the State Comm the notice of condemnation award ed yelopment of the State of Virgi nia, and in respo nse to dance with the order of the Circu it upon the filing of said petiti on and published in accor leave of the Cour t to file this Cour t of__JS;_q_~/_J!.;:!_'ib_Cf?fl _______ County; Virgi nia, asks as his answ er to said petiti on. and to said notice . _____________________ _ My name is __ C_ I'll S/21 -lf/e. it _________________________ ____________________ _ My post office addre ss is ___ fZlfcf927_,,_'f<!:_7ffR__ty_~_'f- _____ land withi n the area sough t I claim a right, title, estate or intere st in a tract or parcel of on which there are the following to be condemned, conta ining abouL,_.:::§'__?_~-=_ _______ acres, ~~~--~?!J~_wf_~~!-1:..=#?¥_ ______ _ buildings and impro veme nts :____'r:':..~!&__9_~'!.'!!!_Y'i!!_~_i!_e__,_.?_ ~ · · ·a, m d _______ v·1rg1m d Fo?~ 11_____ _____ I:t:-lo1 _____ ~ ____ m1·1es f rom_______ z.. L_:z: . l ocat ed a b ou t _____ l d 1s . 2n Th1s . t of sai"d Count y. -. l n·1st r1c . t eria / __ Mag1s ewc11 _____ ~1"'11 _____ th e____ tract or parce l of land deI claim the following right, title, estate or intere st inerthe he is sole owne r or joint owner, scribed above: (In this space claim ant should say wheth claim ant is not sole or joint owner, and if joint owne r give name s of the joint owne rs. orIf intere st he has in or to the tract or he should set out exact ly what right, title, estat e parce l of land described above.) - ----_______1:'_'-!..~~~!~:~~~-c!_ __ (::__7_:~_:1y1__ £_~_~(~;I!l-------------------------------------- parce l of land are as follo,ws: The land owners adjac ent to the above described tract or ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -North __ NIH H cvr 7~ /son ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----___________________________ _ South ____ 7.:i'CT 7 77 e ¥ ___________________________________ _________________________ _ East ___ J 1:Jl.f i-17fi_·1 - - e ________________________ __________ _______________________ _ West ___ $. _Sl? 1/'ll e1t ___________________________________ about the year--~? !_~_i n the I acqui red my right, title, estate or intere st to this prope rty following mann er: ----- ----- ______ !By Lru1- r e ltc7s e __-/«? e _ S '711_· u 1-e ___ T/tfe ----- ----- ----- ----- ----with the impro veme nts there I claim that the total value of this tract or parce l of land right, title, estate or intere st, on is $!i_~ -~"!'_________ I claim that the total value of my nts there on is $_L'!:~':?___________ . in and to this tract or parce l of land with the impro veme the above described tract or I am the owne r oLL!~!.. __________ acres of land adjoi ning will be dama ged by the proclaim parce l of land but lying outsid e the Park are a, which I exten t of $_'1;:q_~~------------· posed condemnation of lands withi n the Park area, to the statem ents or inform ation as to (In the space below should be set out any additionalcable he should also inser t here a this claim which claim ant desires to make ; and if practibounds). , description of the tract or parce l of land by metes and 7cr,1n 9 / c,..,-r d ________ _ Rema rks· ____ T Ire I e171o / _ I c J/1-c.7 1_ c LITs_ c- f ,R _111..y __ .:re77 1 .lh-e.__________ _ e.1-;o, lfy_d cr777 d _e..s fT07 77 _ 777'j o 11/y _o t.../1/e/·:fth_t e!-t_ yery__-n-,01r f-., I 711e _9··r e C'J fe'7 · /:? cnf- & f? _____ _ _z--e 777 c~ -z7 c.fe, '_ o f 777j __ F ClrTZ ? _ l o 7114'! ~-,..le; ----- ---f - ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----rks if neces sary on the back) . ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- (Continue rema o) }11j~-¥-~/2 ______ day Witne ss my signa ture (or my name and mar1>7tttached herJ't y_ cl Iue 0~7-e, 0 -A..- ~) /-- - ---------- - W I-~ _ of_ E ~~J--__ 1_7_$_ L __-, 1930. '=~T.!'!.-- --, To-w it: STAT E OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF ____lf}f!.~!!.-:1_?.':l-l">____________________ ________ The under signe d hereb y certifies that_ __<;;_,_tfl§:./:zj_et...l<ajt_ e him and made oath that the matte rs the above name d claim ant personally appea red beforto the best of his knowledge and belief, and thing s appea ring in his above answ er are true ~ this ______ 1.-jJo_______ day of____E,_f,y__l"!H _-, 1930. ~ ¢' vL / / ~ ,,/3 / ff / ~~ ~:;-~~ rn~;.k-~c~;;~-t~-0-;~,.~~;tig~ Peace. Nota ry Public, or Justic e uf the �County : Di strict : Rocking hn.n stonew all 369 ~ 6 - Shifle tt , C. M. creage Claine d : Assesn ed : Val ue Claine d: Deed : 40 A. ( 1916 ) Deed : 1050 Assess ed : Area : Locatio n : 40 5 Acres Near P'drk Positio ns #149 - lbO - 151 - 152 . tly outside ark area . P, Incunb r~nces , counte r clain s or laps : None known . Soil: ' Roads : Two oiles over county road to Island Ford. Histor y of tract and con.,iti on of t i nber : Tract has been cut over repe:.1t ediy in the :past . The presen t otand consis ts of nixed oaks , with a s crub oak under story . The tract is estiT'.la ted to cut 2000 bd . ft . @ J\4 . 00 per :M . - '\i'a .oo . Inprov eoent s : None . value of land by t;tyes: ~ Slope Acreag 9 5 Value Total Rer acre ,5 . 00 Value )25 . 00 Total value of land !l • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 25 . 00 Total value of tinber •• • • ••• • • •• •• ••• • • •• s .oo Total value of tract Averag e value per acre 1 ....... ............. .................... }33 . 00 6 . 60 �N ·~(56 ., c. County: Rockingham District: Stonew 11 M. Shiflett E. W. I '1". Harrison . N,-: Annie E. 1& Hedrick Ellemorth Lafayette LEGEND: SloRe Scala - 1 : 20 cha.ins � 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 Shifflett, Alex - Shuler, James Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shifflett-c-m.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shifflett, C. M. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Near park positions 149-150-151-152 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): 369 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 Shifflett https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/f8e639c884f2f48f1943d53f5dd0663b.pdf 85d7818c8e74443e804c015a8601c32d PDF Text Text Claim of___ /~t:2...--~ ~----------------------------------------In the Circuit Court of~ ~2. ______ County, Virginia, No. _____ _::_, At Law. The State Commission on Conse_p{ation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. ____{ ! ~--°--~-~.,,,£.~d.--,------------------------------------more or less, of land in __________________ __ ________ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ _________________________ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. ~-------------------------------- ..t!!~-~<f. . . . ~ My name is __ My p_~ st office address is __ ~ ~ ~------~a{________________ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ ____ ;?L_________ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvements=------ ~-. . £ ~-------- --------------------- ---------------Virginia, in This land is located about_ __ _3-______ miles from_~ ___ Magisterial 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. ) ------- - - - - ---- ---------------------------- --------------------- -----------~ The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North ___ / ( ~-W ~ ------------------------------------------------ South ___ 2(;/, __ ~ __ East ____ /4 .. fo , ~ £~./~ ______________________ ;/--------------------- _____________________ _ jl_~:; 4 ~ -~---------------- - ----------- - ---~ ----~ West----~ 1 acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year L~L$.-in the ~ following-mann~ ~ ,a ~ ---- I claim that the total value ,of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $--P-il~-~-----· I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, _.--c> in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $__cf.t2_'!':..~--I am the owner of_ __ _3_~_________ 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 $-~ ?!CZ.~~ -----· (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). _,&_ ____ • - - -- . ' .r~ Remarks: ---~ - ---~ ___ &.t.£d__~ ~-~ --~ - ~-- --- ___t&< !.v~ ---~ r ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---~ - ~ -~ ~ - ~---~ --~--- ---------------------------------------- ---- (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). day Witness my signature (or my name and mar~ jttac~ed hereto this ___ ;~! E~F ', c!~NTY L7-_0_ ___ OF{j2~ •~ '- __ L _____ _ _ -" ' ~<r'L~The undersigned hereby certifies th~~~ ~- _0__ oath that the matters the above named claimant personally appeared before him and and things appearing in his a~ve a~ wer are true to the best o his knowledge and belief, L7-________day of1f~ -= -g ~~ l}?~ ~ this ___ _ Glerk of the Col:lrt, er gf!eeial lHvestigator ~@~;;c:~; :d-/?t3( 6P � 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 Shifflett, Alex - Shuler, James Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shifflett-carl.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shifflett, Carl Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Not Specified Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): Not Specified Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Shifflett https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/45618551917b47f8727dfc2eca4300b0.pdf d0f1984b1b83ba772f5aec9307bc4b07 PDF Text Text ROCKINGffiJ1 COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #222 - Shifflett , Daniel Number of Acres: 220 Location: . East slope of High Top Mountain • Roads: Soil: . . Two miles of rough steep road to Spotswood ~rail nea r Swift Run Gap ; thence six miles to Elkton. Soil which is now cultivtited is of good depth and fertility , while that of the rest of the tract is only of f air depth and poor fertility and exceedingly rocky . History of Tract and condition of timber: a large portion of this tract was cleared many years ago , moot of which has been grazed and cultivated since . The wooded area has been cut over repeatedly in the past . The present stand consists of mixed oaks with oome dead chestnut . Improvements: (See reverse side for Improvement information) Acreage and value of types: Types Value per acre Acreage Total Value Ridge: Slope: 131 ~3 . 00 $393 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: 68 ;_ , 20 . 00 1360 . 00 21 <L 20 . 00 420 . 00 $2173 . 00 Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: 220 Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land:$ 2173 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 6 30 . 00 630 . 00 Value of Orchard:$ 100 . 00 Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ 100 . 00 Value of Timber: $ Value of Wood: $ 150 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 13. 87 150 . 00 $3053 . 00 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . 25 �Log and frame l6xl8', l½ story, shingle roof , Dwelling: D~PROVEMENTS: 4 rooms, log finish, kitchen 10xl2', occupied by owner, rair condition, springt solid foundation . Log and frame 14xl6xl0', shingle roof, fair condition. Barn: Hen house: Frame, 10xl2x5', shingle roof, fair condition . Granary: Log 10xl2~8', shingle roof, poor condition. Dwelling: Log 12xl6', l½ story, shingle roof, stone flues, Kitchen 8xl6', (attached) 3 rooms, log finish, poor condition, occupied by tenant . Stable: Log 12xl4xl0', shingle roof, poor condition . Hen house: Log 5x7x4', shingle roof, poor condition. Dwelling: Log 14xl4', l} story, shincle roof, 3 rooms, log finish, stone flues, fair condition, occupied by tenant . Log 10xl8~8', shingle roof, fair condition . Stable: Log 6xl0x7', shingle roof, poor condition . Corn house: \ �~!aim of _______ cl,;;,,,,~ f lw,~ _:..d .____________________________ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 In the Circuit Court oL . . . . CL'Ctr................ ;t.J.L . . J ....~........................ County, Virginia, No ............................. , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs ..... 4--.... L ~ .... ~L . . £ b. . S.. ........L!...-:f.. . . ~-1._c_ ............ .... 41.&.J . . . . _. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . t. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '_. . /__ . . . . _. . ___ .-L......, -~ . . -----.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ___ ..... __ I. ~ .--------------------.. . . . :r;nore or less, of land m . . ~~- . . . . ;z_. . . . __ . . . . _. . --- . . _. . County, V1rgmia, 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 fil~ of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ ....{J_~/_!...~1-'-A !Y~ --- . . County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is_ ................ ~l.Ja..,.,,,-1 <;A __ µ! ,,~ /' . . '-.L:f _______ ........ _. . __ . . _. . _. . _. . _. . ___________ _ My post office address is _____ ~~ :t"--~~ -- ______________ . . . . ___________ . . ____ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing abouL L~9-A :..._3.R,, :Laeres, on which there are the following buildings .and improvements :. . ___ . . J. . .~ . . ,.,__3_.Q.{;:I~ ------ ~ l ! d . k ~------ ___ ft.: .J7 ' r ---------------- ---------- . . ---------------- -------------- ........ ------------- _u_J~-:-= . . _____________ . . __ Virginia, in This land is located about_ ___~_______ miles from __ the . . _i'.'!. .... ____ Magisterial District of said County. ,Jl.-:__ . . 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.) _. . . . . . . . ___________________________ . . ___ . . . . _. . a - ~ ........................................................ __ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _____________ . . The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North ________ -9'a..-c..1~ _h4-1M~~-_ . . __________ . . ____ . . __ . . _________________________ _ South ________ l.'· -)-------- _ ~r ---------------- ---------------- ------------- ~~S~::::::::y'Ji;:::L~ _./, :·:::::: ~f: ._:::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::: ::::::: I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year _,(_1.9-.L __ in the following manner: ~ . . ___________ . . _______ _!k_· -~ -~ ~ /4 l h ua- ___________________ . . I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $__ _Bp_q_Q_~_0.... ___ • I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parc·e1 of land with the improvements thereon is $_ ........ --~ ---------· I am the owner of_ ____1La... _____ . . _acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $----.. . ~ ----.. . ------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks· ___________ . . . . _______________________________________________________ . . ____ _ ................ - ............ _. . __ . . . . __ . . __ . . __________________ . . __ . . __ ( Continue remarks if necessary on the back). 'Jitness my signature (or my name and mark attached h~ -eto) this ___ 3L~: . . . . . . . . __ day of_ . . L! ............ ____ .!_ 1 ( / ~ 1. /71,u.,(, . . _. . _. . ~~~........ ~-~ -$ ~~ ---.. . . . _______ _ STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF ___ ~ : (. .,,,~~~~ ~--- 'fo-wit:: ___., The undersigned hereby certifies that_ ___ the above named claimant personally appeared before him and mad ath that the matters and things appearing in his abov answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, -----~:IB31. AJ~--- ___ __ _________ . . _. . __ thiB _____~L ________ day of -------------~~~ :~~ c . ~ ~igator-or Notary Public, or Justice of the Peace. - �REPORr ON TH":5 .. ~CREAGE of the DANIEL SHIFLE ~T TRACT #22 2. Th is tra ct is the res idu e of a 365¾ acr e tra ct aft er the re had bee n sol d fro m it tra cts of 150 acr es, 48 acr es, 10 acr es and 20 acr es. Th is wo uld lea ve 137 ¾ acr es owned by Da nie l Sh ifl ett acc ord ing to his dee d. ·r. Sh ifl ett is ass ess ed wi th 129¾ acr es. Ho we ver , ou r fie ld sur vey s loc ate d numero us cor ner s of thi s tra ct, and tra ve rse d a pa rt of the bou nda ry • .\. com put ati on of the are a of the tra ct made as a res ult of ou r fie ld ....-ork giv es 220 acr es . The sta te rep ort ca lls for 232 acr es. ~r:4&n~ Ch ief En gin eer , Far k Se rvi ce. �./ C0 nty : Rockin gh D1 str1 ot: ~to ne 11 1,&22 - Sh iff let t, Dan iel ore age Cla ime d: 12 •" R. As ses sed : 129 A- 120 P Cla ime d: 300 0.0 0 " · 107 0.0 0 ooa tio n: Inc ·as t slo pe of ~ igh Top •ou nta in . uno es , ou te r cla ims or la£ s: None kno _n. Dee d: Pur cha sed 52 ~- of lan d in 189 8 {Th is dif fer enc e as m de in 191 7, lno e tha t tim e r. Sh iff let hn~ sol d out of thi s tra ot- 15() . -46 R- 10 . ~o . . ~. ) hlo h 1E cul tiv ate d is of goo d dep thandand fer til ity , wh ile tha of t 1e :.re o the tra ct fer til ity nd xce edi ngl y oc' is onl y of fai r dep th nd poo r 7. So il Roa ds: To ile ~ of ro~ ·h ste ep roa d to Spo ts ood ~ra il nea r S 1ft Run ile s to ;1k ton . Gap; the nce 6 His tor of tra ct und con dit ion of tim be! A lar ge po rtio n of t 11s t a ct c e•r e many yea rs a~ o,. ost: of hic h has bee n gra zed nd oulas tlv ted sin ce • .th~ ood ed had p st. T..1e pre sen sta nd con si bee n cut ov_ ,r rep e ted ly in t e ohe stn ut. The ood ed are a is ts of , !ixe d aks lith som dea d stlm ate d Go cut an ave r ge f 6 cor ds or iue l ood per ore , ~re at dea l of ic is not acc ess ibl e. ' o amo nt of cor d ood hic h 1 acc ess ibl e is es i ted 300 cor ds val ued 50¢ -- 150 .00 In pro v ..men s: ell in : Log fr me 1 18' , .l sto ry• s ing le roo f• log Lin ts , kit che n 10x l2 ', occ roo ms upi ed by on er, f i r c>n dit4on, s rtn g, oli d 0un dat 1 ,n- -Bn rn: 200 .00 g nd fram e 14 xl6 xl0 ', shi ngl e roo f, t, ir c)n dit ion -60. 00 :Trame lOx l.Zx ', s ing l roo f, .i. ir con i ti n-l o.0 0 ran y: Log 10x l2x 8•, uhi .n le roo f, ')OO r Oro har o.: 1 ao r, 20 .00 .lue d v60 . , O per acr e for tre es " nly -60 .00 l,in g: Log 3x l6' , 1 s ory , s.i ng le roo f, sto ne f ues kit che n 8x l6' , (at tac h-d ) 5 roo ms, lo fi:n:1.sh, poo r con dit ion , occ upi ed by tan ant -:.t ble : og 12x 14x l0', shL · le roo 75. 00 r o dit ion , Jen 20. 00 1se ~ Log tix7 x4' 1 s•i ng lo roof,f, poo poo r ' o.0 0 Dwel I inP ': Log l4x l4' , 1} sto r~, s: ing le r of, 3 r o s, log fl1 ls, st ne fl~ o., ~ai r con dit ion , occ upi ed by tena11t -Sta ble : Log 10x l8x 8 1 , si n 100 .00 Cor h~u se: Log 6xl 0x7 ', shile ~oo f, fai r co nd itio n, ~5. 0C le roo f, poo r con dit i)n , 10. 10 nd ~ Slo pe F g F o bz 590.00 typ es: .Acr e ge 143 68 21 m; r v" l'le per acr e ~.oo 9.0 0 20. 60 0 1 Value 35?.oO 44 •.00 420 .00 1321.50 �County: Rockingham District: Stonewall £222 - Shi ft'lett 1 Daniel Cont'd Total value of land 1321. 50 Total value of improvements 090.00 rot-al value of timber luO.O 'l1 otal vulue of tr ct Average value per -ore 2861.00 8.68 �M. H. HARRI SON TREASU RER OF ROCKING HAM COUNTY HARRISON BURG, VIRGINIA To Whom It 1,. ay Concern : I hereby certify that the that Daniel Shiffle tt show records of my office years 1932 and 1933 the ~or has paid the taxes of land situate acres 0 3on his tract of 129 wall Distric t, Stone s, ountain M in the Blue Rid ge . Rockingh am County 1 11 taxes prior to that , are a matter of record unpaid be time, if any said County . of Office in the Clerk's Given under my hand this . 1933 r 18th day of Decembe T r ~ C o u n t y, �NOTE--This need not be filed until the r ecord discloses that the awards have been paid into the custody of the Courts. Virginia : In the Circuit Court of Rockingham County The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia .. PETITIONER. V. At Law No. 1829 Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of land, more or less . . . . . . DEFENDANTS. Comes now the undersigned and shows to the Court: That a judgment in rem has heretofore been entered in this proceeding condemning to the use of the Petitioner the fee simple estate in the tract(s) of land numbered as follows: Tract No. .• Tract No. ____________ : Tract No. ____________ ; Z:-:__'7.::__ ~ and described in the report of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners appointed herein and shown, numbered, and delineated on the County Ownership Map filed therewith, upon payment into the custody of the Court of the sum(s) set out in the said judgment as constituting the award(s) therefor, as follows: Award on Tract No. 'J:_g_k:__ $2tZff.l_t!; fn Tract No. ____________ $ __________ ; on Tract No. ------------ $----------; That the report of the said Board sets forth th at the following named persons claim, or appear to have a claim to an interest in the said tract(s) of land or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof; That the Petitioner has paid into the custody of the Court the said sum(s) set out in said judgment as constituting the award(s) for the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) of land; That your undersigned, on the date of the said judgment in rem condemning the said tract(s) of land, owned or was (were) entitled to the following interest in the said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof:- That no other person or persons than the undersigned are entitled to share in the distribution of the said award(s) except the following named persons whose interest in said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof on the date of entry of said judgment was as follows: Wherefore, your undersigned pray(s) that [he (they) be made a party (parties) herein under the provisions of Section 21 of the Public Park Condemnation Act, and that] an order be entered for the distribution of said sum(s) set forth in said judgment in rem as constituting the award(s) for the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) condemned as aforesaid, and for the payment to the undersigned of the said award(s) or of as much thereof as the Court may find that the undersigned is (are) entitled to receive, and which the undersigned aver(s) is as follows: Tract No. 2:J::_k__ $J~£J~& Tract No. ____________ $ - - - - - -----: Tract No. --- - -------- $ ____ ___ ___ ; . The undersigned further aver(s) that: (Leave this space blank unless there is some other pertinent matter to be brought specially to the attention of the court) NAME STATE -of v=ooy- O; CKINGH.AM, to- wit : ------------ ThTs- day- personally- appeared before me -Dani el Shif f l et t - and -ma de oath that--ths--st.at-e-:me-n-t-s--00-nt-a-ined-- in tn-e-abov-e--p-e t-it-i-en---BB--ta-1:L-as--mad e on his own inf orm ti on are true and so far as made upon. inform.a t ion of ~!~!!:e-~~.i1~~:'_~~--~~~~-~-~-~~--~~~~-: Given un r my ~ d t · ' fi-:~a:;Y P~~l ic NOTE--A supply of this blank form has been placed in the Cl rk's ience of interested parties. No one is required to use this form, as the form is not prescribed by a , and claimants can either change or modify it as they deem necessary, or present their motions in ny form they may desire which meets with the approval of the Court. This blank form may not and probably will not cover all cases. It has been printed merely as a suggestion of a form of a motion which may be used, subject to the approval of the court in each case. 313 �1 • 'l' CUIT C 0 , . t1on n . 1as1on o Co oo tat or u, 1n1 h ti to .i; 18-.. \I' w n ins, 2 th 1 • , Daniel Shif'fle tt h Decembe r ny of don h1 l t h 0 t o. t 11 ,. 2'22 ' n p ari 1:ner h to J d l in 222 r, d Daniel Shit'fl.e tt aid ri ht e No . t l ot t e otit on for d 1 t 1 rd th or p he , t t tin fo at: h t 1 t1 l r ol 1 tr r1 r"'O th 0 Daniel Shiffle tt r h e d 1011 ot V d to ntit d I 11 to in h d i o. C our 1 ,_ r t 0 id 0 h r- p d • upon t, t t nstde n o . 222 id ---- ---- ---· --- 1 ie t , ______ y un ,... 3053 . 00 • , o y t th Ota" d to o ria o .o.tr t r or ot t 1r i ' Daniel t t h ref' r r o 1p 1 222 J . ---· id or or d n 0 by titian• 6 Danie 1 sh:tr nett t k b ro r t ot t i r r n bv 222 Da.biel Shif'fi ett tr n r 1 3053. 00 t·t J t r Cl or p rl!lon b U VI cei 222 r d e thi t 222 ct , 10 . ff;r: 1 to the itl re an 1 d t e tn in • • 1 C ed to tr f11 t 3053 . 00 rd tot ro pni e s giv V Q e un at' -· 3 l e the y • ~~ o/~ 310 �STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF ROCKINGHP..M , to-wit: I, J. Robert Switzer , Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rockingham county -do hereby certiry that the r ecords in my office do not show any delinquent taxes against the tract or 129 acres 3 roods and no acres assessed in the name of Daniel Shifflett, and situate in stonewall District. Given under my hand this 27th day of December, 1933. 311 �Qlommnnnttaltq nf lllirgiuia TRE ASURER ' S OFFICE R I CHMOND, VA , JOHN M , P URCELL December 29 , 1933 TREASU R ER CF V IRG IN I A This is to certify that I, J . M. Purc ell, Treasurer of Virg inia have this 29 d.ay of December in accordanc e with an order of the circuit c ourt of Rockingham County dated 12/27/33 in the cause of the Stat e Commi s sion on Conservat ion and Developme nt of the State of Virgi n ia vs. Cassandra T.a:wsn....,_...,n.....--+A,..,t.,..kc...i.....nl..h>-s --------- - :paid to Daniel ShiffJett , Swift R,m , V-i rginia $_3~,~0~5~3~·~0~0~_ _ _ be ing in full settlemen t of tract #--222 in the above mentioned cause, ( / J / of Virginia . �Q!nmtttnuwraltq nf llirgiuta TREASURER'S OFFICE RICHMOND, VA, December 29 , 1933 JOHN M. PURCELL TREASURl!R OF VIRGINIA Daniel Shifflett Swift Run , Virginia Received of J.M. Purcell, Treasurer of Virginia, the sum of$ 3 ,053.00, in accordance with an order of the Circuit Court of the county Of- -Rockingham - -----'=-------- entered on the 27th day of December 193~ , in the matter of the State Commission on Conservation and Development v _ __ ____C_a_s_s_an_d_r_a_L_a_w_s_o_n_A_tk_i_n_s_and others, being full and complete settlement fo known in said proceeding as# ~~ fCJ-.Jl-7~ Sign orjginal and duplicate and return to the Treasurer of Virginia. e tract of ii ·1.,;~V ~- �NOTE-This need not be filed until the record discloses that the awards have been paid into the custody of the Courts. Virginia: In the Circuit Court of Rockingham County The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia .. PETITIONER . V. At Law No. 1829 Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others, and Fifty-Two Thousand, Five Hundred and DEFENDANT S. Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of land, more or less . . . . . Comes now the undersigned and shows to the Court: That a judgment in rem has heretofore been entered in this proceeding condemning to the use of the Petitioner the fee simple estate in the tract(s) of land numbered as follows: Tract No . .222 _______ : Tract No. ____________ : Tract No. ____________ ; and described in the report of the Board of Appraisal Commissioners appointed herein and shown, numbered, and delineated on the County Ownership Map :filed therewith, upon payment into the custody of the Court of the sum(s) set out in the said judgment as constituting the award(s) therefor, as follows: Award on Tract No. _..2.2..2 ____ $ __39_Q9_t.9Pon Tract No. ____________ $----------; on Tract No. ------------ $----------; . That the report of the said Board sets forth that the following named persons claim, or appear to have a claim to an interest in the said tract(s) of land or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof; Daniel Shiflett That the Petitioner has paid into the custody of the Court the said sum(s) set out in said judgment as constituting the award(s) for the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) of land; That your undersigned, on the date of the said judgment in rem condemning the said tract(s) of land, owned or was (were) entitled to the following interest in the said tract(s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof:- By reason of contribut ion pledge, obligating the owner, Daniel Shiflett , to give 10 acres of his land wi thin the Park Area to the Park Project . That no other person or persons than the undersigned are entitled to share in the distribution of the . f,aid award ( s )- except the following named persons whose interest in said tract ( s) or in the proceeds arising from the condemnation thereof on the date of entry of said judgment was as foll'ows: Wherefore, your undersigned pray(s) that [he (they) be made a party (parties) herein under the provisions of Section 21 of the Public Park Condemnation Act, and that] an order be entered for the distribution of said sum(s) set forth in said judgment in rem as constituting the award(s) for the fee simple estate in the said tract(s) condemned as aforesaid, and for the payment to the undersigned of the said award(s) or of as much thereof as the Court may :find that the undersigned is (are) entitled to receive, and which the undersigned aver(s) is as follows: Tract No. __2.22 ______ $_2_5 , .QQ__ : Tract No. ____________ $ __________ : Tract No. ____________ $----------; The undersigned further aver(s) that: (Leave this space blank unless there is some other pertinent matter to be brought specially to the attention of the court) NAME P. 0. ADDRESS ST ATE _COMl!lISSIO N _ON __9_Q~~!::~Y-~~]_ON &. _............__~-~ BY __ NOTE-A supply of this blank form has been placed in the Clerk's office for the convenience of interested parties. No one is required to use this form, as the form is not prescribed by law, and claimants can either change or modify it as they deem necessary, or present their motions in any form they may desire which meets with the approval of the Court. This blank form may not and probably will not cover all cases. It has been printed merely as a suggestion of a form of a motion which may be used, subject to the approval of the court in each case. �STATE OF VIRGINIA) SS COUNTY OF W RREN ) Personally appeared befor;e me the undersigned Notary Public in my said State and County , E . r: . Stokes , who being duly sworn, depcs ed and said that she is an employee of the State Commission on Conservation and Development in imr~ediate charge of the records of the Shenandoah National Park Division thereof having to do with claims of the Commission for dis tributive shares of condemnation aV1ards in the Shenandoah National Park condemnation pro ceeding s pending in the Circuit Courts of Virginia , by reason of contr~cts qnd 4greements entered into with the owners of lands so~ght to be conder-med in these proceedings , and that the within clai..11 is just and cor rect . M) Commissiun Expires Sep. 8, 1934 �VI GIIJI ~. HT THE CTIC U.1. T "'OLaT OF OCICL.Ju.IL-J.. vOUl'~TY . The .Jtate Cormniss ion on 8onservo .tion & Developm ent of the .:.>tate of Virgini9 . , ::.1 etitione r , v. Cassand ra L3.wson Atkins , et als , defenda nts . In ~•e : Distri bu ti on of r,rocee ds of ·condemn ti on for tract l o . 222 . 's'hi s day came the ..)tate Commiss ion on Conserv ation I & Developm ent , by Counsel , and mov:ed the Court to enter an order directin g the Treasure r of the dtat e of Virginia , to IB-Y to it the sum O~w25.00 out of the proceeds of condemn ation of Tract I'm . 222 ,A represen ting the amount of a certain pledge made by Daniel Shiflet t , vmo clai ed to be the ovm.er of said tract , to said 'tate CoTIJr.:..ission on Comervatinn <:i.:. Developm ent, as a contribu tion for the establ i shrrent of ....)henand oah 1'7ationa l Park , and in support of its said rrntion, the said Comniss ion exhil,ite d to the Court its :r;])tion in \vrit ng setting forth all the facts in relation thereto, which h3.s ooo n he reto-f ore .filed herein . Upon conside retion Hhereof , it appearin g to the '.::ourt that the claim of said Com. ission is not based upon any lien , either on the land condemne .d or on the _:roceeds of condemn ation , and that said Conmiss ion has failed to obtain the consent of the parties entitled to the proceeds of condemn ation, to the payment of its cle.im , it is accordin gly adjudr;ed and ordered that the not on of the Comriiss ion for the :payment of said claim out of the proceeds of condemn ation for aaid tract be and the same is heCE'eby denied . 0 1y / /~ � 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 Shifflett, Alex - Shuler, James Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shifflett-daniel.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shifflett, Daniel Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: East slope of High Top Mountain Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): 222 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 Shifflett https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/2a0aaaf3412d1441e73f796fa741b5c7.pdf 00dc10f68b083716832ed669c29fa014 PDF Text Text Claim o f _ _ ~__ £,.__ , ·; In the Circuit Court oL(flj__ _________ --~ounty, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. The State Commission on Conservat· and Development of the State of Virginia, Peti-tioner, vs. _____________________________________________________________________________ _ ------------------------- -]';-) ---71--· --- ---- ·----------------------- -------------more or less, of land in __ _ f f / ~ - - ~ n t y , Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petiti of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, an in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon thef/;·ng of~aid 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 ans er to said~tition and to said notice , · -~&-~ :; i::eo::: -:;~JJJ :&;~,f~ ~~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/-0__4_-:_'t.:./'._~ ____ acres, on which there are the following 7 ;,-;:-:~------------------------------- buildings and improvements: _________________ --------------7-~ 1--~r/-r--~----- ----------------- ---------- --------------------------- ------------------------:.: .-.;;--~-$11:::...-=. ------------------- This ~and is locat~ abo~t_-~_3_:--~-miles :rom _____ ~ - - - - - - - -Virginia, in the~Mag1ste tial D1str1ct 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 ~~~~~~~:~~~~ North ______ ~-~-~----------- ------------------ ----------------South ________ ·~-~.18 :~ ___ -------------------------------- ac;~:~=~-::~~~tfi~~is p:o::::~-::~~~-:~:-~: ~~~~:~~:-t~: zl±e,, ! following manner: nteres,ro. ~~]:,~-~-~-r; p_~1;j ~~~ claim that the total value of this ~parcel of land with the improvements thereI on is $__ ,3_t!_f?_?!_~~t2. I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the impro';~~ecw-Js.,J.:; :=..-------------· I am the owner of~-!J.-J_C!_ ___ acres of land~-afeming the ifbove-described tract or parcel of land but lying ontsia.e the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $__._j_-_q_q!_(!_?!._ ____ . (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a d_~:~:~f?:-~~L~:~~~:~-:_d b~~;s~-:~:~~~ :z, ~ --~-~--_Jb~g;,,,____ - ---- --~ §:: ~ ---~--_EL~~ -;;-;;~-;-~°'? L__ Ltl_/-£_&_ ~---~ (§. ~-~-~_§._j_-q _<?_,_~q_ __ (Continue remarks if necessary on the back). ~ ~ Witness my signature (01~me. and mark attached hereto) this_,__LL_ _day ~ of_ ___ ~ ~ - - - - , 193f J-!P;}?~-~ -£. ___ __ ________ _ .: f ~ ~ ~ r c/f__ ~ STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY f//-~~-~o- . ~ The undersigned_ hereby certifies t h a t _ _ ~ ~ : : - _____ _ c5 the above named claimant personally appeared before ~-~nd made o th that the matters e0 and things ~earing in his abov~nswer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, this _____ L_)':: ________ day of__ __ ;c._~--~~~~r peci ;-,;,;;tif!,ct;t Notary Public, or Justice o the Peace. � 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 Shifflett, Alex - Shuler, James Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shifflett-emma-and-children.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shifflett, Emma & Children Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Not Specified Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tract(s): Not Specified Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</a>) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pake Davis, Tristan Nelson, Liana Bayne Shifflett https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/9e480edfba0de70675582b24efb7c874.pdf b041a72f3c05459b1ad66e20ac216fbe PDF Text Text ALBEMARLE COUNTY NAME OF CLAIMANT #183 - Shif flett , Fred Number of Acres: 29 Location: Sandy Botto m. Roads: l½ 1 iles dirt road to Spots wood Trail , :four miles hard surfa ce to Elkto n, neare st shipp ing point . Soil: Sandy loam with a good depth af ferti lity, north east expos ure . Entir ely withi n the Park area . History of Tract and condition of timber :__ Impro veme nts: Dwel ling: Frame , 15x20 ' , 3 rooms , ceile d, porch l6x20 ', kitch en 10xl2 x8', l½ story , metal roof, occup ied by tenan fair cond ition . BARN: Frame , 14x2 0xl0' , metal roof, fair t, ........,_.._~ond ition . OLD SHED: 14x20 xl0' . gEN HOUSE: Frame , 6xl0x 6', lbnlD:liL-.- ~'1ing le roof, fair condi t ion. Gill NARY: Frar.1e , 12xl4 x8', shing le roof, poor cond ition . MEAT HOUSE: Frame , 8xl0x 6', metal roof, fair cond ition . Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 9 @ $5 . 00 $45 . 00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: 20 @ 3!:5 . 00 700 . 00 $74:) . 00 29 Orchard: Minerals: 545 . 00 Value of Land: $745 . 00 Value of Improvements: $ 545 . 00 75 . 00 Value of Orchard: $ 7 5 . 00 Value of Minerals: 5 20 . 00 Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ 20 . 00 50 . 00 $1435 . 00 Value of Wood: $ 00 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 49. 48 Irrcidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE . ~ -/YAn~ ' ----- -----27 ........- - ----- -- CLERK . ol �-- count-:{: Ro ck ingham District : Stoneua ll 1~183 - ? red Shiffle tt Acrease Claimed: : snos s ed Value claimed: n 28. 120 ,600 . 00 De ed 0 . 28.00 (19 21} {190'7) 492 . 00 (1go5) Location : ,: >a.ndy Bottom. Entirely wi thi...1 ~ha I ark area . Inoumbr ances, counter claims pr laps: None known. nolcl to 1''red Shiffle tt. - ,;,,011: Sandy loam with a tood dep th of rertili ty , N. I! . exposure . Roads: l½ Histor miles dirt road to 3potawood Trail; 4 miles hard surface to ~lkton 1 neures t shipping poinE, of tract and conditio n of timber: Tho wooded rou of this tract us about 5 o ft. saw timber and 36 eds . ~uel wood oonsL, ting of onko and uo:me ;:,In ,11 1ines. Saw timber 5000 ft. ~.$4 . 00 per. M. · -------- --- "120 . 00 36 eds. fuel wood G 50¢ per ed.---- ------- 18. 00 . 38.00 Improvem ents: Dwellin~ , FTane 15x20, 3 rooms, eeiled, porch 16:x:20, ~itohen l0xl2x8 , l½ story, metal roof., occupied by tenanti conditio n fair.--- --- .... --- $380.00 ~nrn, Frame l4x20x o, metul roof, oond. fair 300.00 Old shed, 14x20xl0 --- -------- -------- ~----25 . 00 Hen house, :.,rame 6xl0x6, shingle roof, cond , ---~---- ~-- -----Qra.nery , Frame 12Xl4x8 , shingle roof, oond. fair. --~-~-~ --~~--- -------- 15 . 00 poor~ ~---~-~- ~--~- ~------- -----~~- ~~--~-- - ••ea t house• 1:'r ame 40.00 8xlOx6 • metal roof, cond . ~ra 1r. -~--~~- ~---~--~ ---~---- ----~-~- ~---~-~ ~ Value of land bX txnes: ~ Siope Tillable Acreage 9 21 Total value of land Total value of improvem ents Total value of timber Value of 34 fruit treos Total value of trac ~vernge value per aore Value ner acre ~~·5.00 30 . 00 '. 6?5 . 00 695.00 3 8 . 00 34 . 00 $I442 . 60 48 . 0? 15. 00 ;i5sS.6o Total Vnluo ( 45.00 6 30 . 00 ~~6 ?5 .oo �-~-------- J''18 .) - ~·1 . ,,, ··1 t · _,.,.1 J.. .:. e t ' Fred . Countv: ~ockingham District : 3tonmmll :i. -Luther S1ifflett . ' .... .. ""llf) : ., ") . . J . b ,ugher Slope Sc .... le - l" '30 ch ... ins � 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 Shifflett, Alex - Shuler, James Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shifflett-fred.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shifflett, Fred Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Sandy Bottom 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): 183 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 Shifflett https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/erp/files/original/bb9b98a17e18fe70fb6afb82df0f123d.pdf eba54c96375eb40d4ec2a7b7e0c7a900 PDF Text Text ROCKINGHAM COUNTY · NAME OF CLAIMANT #157- a - Shif'flett, G. Frank Number of Acres: 23 Location: Three miles south of Elkton . the Park area . Roads: Three miles over county road to Elkton. Soil: Slope type. This tract is entirely within · All merchantable timber has been removed from this tract, leaving nothing but fuelwo od . History of Tract and condition c;>f timber: Improvements: None. Acreage and value of types: Types Acreage Value per acre Total Value Ridge: Slope: 23 @ $ 3.00 $69.00 Cove: Grazing Land: Fields Restocking: Cultivated Land: Orchard: Minerals: Value of Land: $ 69 . 00 50.00 $119.00 "'-- Value of Improvements: $ Value of Orchard : $ Value of Minerals: $ Value of Fruit: $ Value of Timber: $ ValueofWood: $ 50 . 00 Value per acre for tract: $ 5. 17 Incidental damages arising from the taking of this tract: $ NONE. ___,~...___..__-........ ~ --~---t:?2 __ ) _CLERK: 52. �_____ j / ~ ___ f ~ I J:t.u:f. _________________________ _ of_ ____ (i?o._r-_/,_-': '-,-~~--- ____ County, Virginia, No. ________ , At Law. Claim of_ ____________ 0, In the Circuit Court The State Commission on Co ervation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. __________________ _J-' , ____ ~ ___ .I _ ; , _ _,_ , __ !; ~: , _Lu-I: ______________________ _ I, (/ I ---------------- -------------- ; ----------,, ---------------- ---------------- ----------more or less, of land in ______ L __ !._L _ __t_ tJ'.c"_ ~ __ _ County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition' of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ _______ .:_ ____________ _____ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. · My name is-------------- -- (J., __ 1. _ ____ ~ 1_:/~ __ , -/~//.__ . ____________ _ rr_,A__ .My post office address is~-----~~A---~--- E :.. __ ..jJ_J_)_,_~_!f:. __ /3_~--~-?!}__ _ I claim a right, title, estate or interest in a tract or parcel of land within the area sought to be condemned, containing about_ ____ ,9__ ______ acres, on which there are the foflowing building~ and improvements: ___ ~ 6.J!A~------'-.hk_~!._ ___1_/_.t:/_r__~,!. __________ · f _/_£ __ ____ itt?L '. -. !::. .-;_-e:.e • ~!,':. • -;~;;;:n~-;;~~~~~~-~~~~;-~- - ~-i ~'r1~~-~~~;; ~===e~~f!:_~=~========-=;ir~~;~.-;~ -/,~ -----~--·-1,-1,, - ~,,_,I: h" k I 9 I - I 1- tJ 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, titl~, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or parcel of land described above.) -------------------------------,. .P 4-u___ r 1 ___ L.,v~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,ws: North ____ 6... r ________ j 4 1 ___ t f _ ·___ /C _____________ I _________________________ _ --UI. ' ____________ ________________ • I I South _____ __ _____ ________________ _____________________ _ East - --- ---- };.., /,l _ West_ _______ ___ W-t A - (v. - /' ,/', / _____,., __ '/-- r½ 1 _ t2t.,._ _ _J v a ..,(,Vl - - --- - - -- - ------------ e..J~- _________________ _________ _--------- I acquired my right, title, estate or interest to this property about the year __{f:q:U, __in the following manner: - $,--- -------------------- i,,Jn __ ~ ---------------------------------------------------------1 . �1.s-? "y' \> __p -- I~ - 7-ttt.. Claim of ____ t_...t,. ______________ , ________________ _______________________________________ _ 0~~ ~ In the Circuit Court of_ __t{?~..£~./4_ ~_County, Virginia, No.lf.!'!:t-_, At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of 1J!e State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs...__~ ~ ~ 4 - _ _ - ~ ~ / ~ __ ~ -- ~ - - - ~ - C- J ¼t--J'. /; { __ A C-...-L-:2J ---------------- ----------more or less, of land in ___ f-2_0:_~__k_~County, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filin~ of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ __ '(_i:;:.__~ -~-~ -h_/h... County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition ~ to said no e. ~ --My name· is __________ ~-- _ ._ _ --~--------- ---------------- ---~ My post office address 1s _____/_ -~ ___ ------~--- _ ----~iz.,- -4-,-µ - ; ~ I claim a right, title, estate or intere 1 ract5or par el of lancVwithin t'he area sought to be condemned, containing about_ ______-~()_ :::-:: _____ acres, on which there are the following buildings and-improvements =------~- --,;:::e~ ::;d:-~-- ~---- ---- ~ ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- --This ~ is located about_ ___~_miles from ______ Virginia, in the_~-~-M agisterial District of said County. ct:__...__ ~ ft./P e... I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in th tracts-or parcelsof 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.) ~ ~ -- / 5 </, ~,. --- ~ - - - - - - "' "'----------- ---~ ~ __ _;~ ~ 2-- ~ - fL.~-~ --- /7 3 1 ___ ~ -- / v-i) _ t ~- ~.D-{? ~~~2F -~ :t. _e...p_, ·-- $ The land owners adjacent to t~e above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North _____________________________________________________________________________ _ South ______ ) ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---East ______ ~ ----------------- ----------------- --------....__--- ----------------- ------ = ~-~-- ~tfly I ac;i::~ my right,-title, estate or interesTt~- p~;f;/ following manner;._,_ b __0__'F~.. ~~---~-C~ :r_·_·_____ .the-year_Ly("__ f__ in-the . .__ f ~~/~r rcr.; ·½·1 ~~~ ~ ~-9/~ 1 __ ·/ I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $--------------- -· I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvements thereon is $-~-~'_~:-- ~-~ I am the owner of_ _______________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged 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). Ren1arks· ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------- I ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------------- ~ ~, 00 ...,---------- ~--------------- ---------------- -- (Continue remarks if necessary on th1 back). Witness my signature (or my name and mark attached hereto) this _____ L_~_{~ ___ day s' ct> - j-; of__~~~---- ----, 193l i; ~ S- ------, - - ~- ~-::,:;;:_~~ STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNH OF __ ~ _ ! : : 4 _ _ _ o-w1tK ~ f · 3 o a, ~ / / The undersigned hereby certifies that_ __~ ~ ~ J _ _ ____ __ -----~-------- --:;? as-- the above named claimant personally appeared before hi'nYand mad oath that the matters § ~ and things apf ring in his above answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, c'· :;, ~ c::i:· this_____ J•t r-- . ____ day L oL~-~7 ~:-1~~~ ~ ~---- -~ ett!dc of the Com t, 01 Gr,eeio:I In. euM-g:at8'l' er Notary Public, 02 I 7" d t1 Pu He 2~1 �I~? vi~ ~ / J-7_/.f- Claim of_______ ~~------ --------- --------- --------- --------- -------In the Circuit Court of_ __&~_{ _~Cou nty, Virginia, No._!._~!-_?, At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Peti- :~-~'f~~~ ----- ~~ ti~-~ ------------ ------------ ------------ -------J ------------ ------------ ------------ -------more or less, of land in _____ ~-~A~_-_,Count y, Virginia, Defendants. The undersigned, in answer to the petition of the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, and in response to the notice of condemnation awarded upon the filing of said petition and published in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of_ ___~~..h --~ County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as h~yan::: ~ said peti~ion -aHd to~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - r z - - - - - - - My post office address i•----- -~~¥- ~~~,z i;----i £#&,' f I claim a right, title, estate or interest 1 ~ rac~or parcel of lan91within Hie ~ sought ,{ to be condemned, containing about_ _____ acres! on which t~ere~e the following l.f... ·1a· · an d 1mprovemen · bu1 1ngs t s·----------· S' --~---------• e. i ! _ ~ ::,/=-~-~--d --~ -----------L _/ _______ i~J_-:_ ______ ~"t_ "'- ---_------_----------------,:,},. ------_-------------· 2a7~~---- _--_-_ ·-_-\ - - ~ ·----------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ---------~ This la~ located about_ ___ ~ __ __m1les from _____________ __ ___?_ _________ V1rg1mazm the_~~-~~ Magiste rial District of said County. ~ ?°h I claim the following right, title, estate or interest in t 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 .e xactly what right, title, estate or interest he has in or to the tract or lS ~&t ~c~~ Jr----~¼<?-,£-:I 7./ f ",--~-- ;;---'j---~ · h r ~-- ______ ________ - I' ~tJ~ ~ - ~-~ ___ _ The land owners adjacent to t e above describe tract or parcel of land are as follows: North ________ _________ ___ ------------ ---- - ------------ ------------ ------- - --- --- -South ____ ___ ______ ___ __ ------------ ------- - ---- ---- ------- --------- ------ ---- --- -East ________ ____ ___ __ ------------ --- ---------- - - - - ------------ ---- --------- ------West __________ _____ ---------- ----rt,_;~ ---------- ---------- ---------- -I acquired my right, title, estate or interestfortn 1s property about the year__ J__j_l_f-in the following m~ner: J 7 ~ , . .... ~ _~ --... ; ,J - .i» " '"j- f_ z -----------½ ._~ f'~ 1,q "Uv c. kt/(0:;__ 1 7 /~o11"; ) ~:t~:~-;::::t::~t;~~rm~~~~~; on is $- ---------- -----· I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, ' ' in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvement s thereon is $- ~~ -· I am the owner of_ ___ ____ ____ ____acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park area, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $--------- ---- -----· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks· ------ ------------ ------ ------- ------ --------- - - ---- · - - ------ ---- --- ------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------- - --- - ------------ ------ ------ ---- -- ::o ct> ~- - - -- ------------ ---- ------------ - - - ---- --- -(Continue remarks if necessary on the back). 0 2 IE oL~J!~ ~ ~ ~ r1~~r~ 00 er;, e, 3 ct> nf? 0 ct, ,:;;- ;,:; en name and ~:~_·;~~~~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STATE OF VIRGINIA, ~NW OF____ - - ------ ~ - -- - To-wit: The undersigned hereby certifies that_ _______ __ ___ ~-- -~--- _ - --- ----- - --- - -------- -the above named claimant personally appeared before h nd made oath that the matters and things appearing in his above answer ar e true to the best of his knowledge and belief;--.-_ this _____ .L::z_j_).__ ____ day of__ __~ ~ ~ " ' - ~---Cler k oL:the Court, or Special Investigato1 Notary Public, or Justice of the Peace. ' 01 �Claim of_ ______George _N. _Conrad ------------ ----- ------------ ------------ ---------. ·t court of ____________ 1n the C1rcm _,_ ___,__________ count y, v·1rgm1a, Roc:rcinP"ham · · N o. ________ 1829 , At Law. The State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, Petitioner, vs. ____Q_§.§_~§.Acir?-__:[,?-.JH?QA_t..t_ti.r...~_13._r.HL_Qt.h_e.;r..s__ n..a__ .5_2_ t- 5_6l_.ELc.r..e_s ______ _ more or 1ess, of 1an d m · ________ Roe ki-:: np-ham ___________________ Count y, v·1rgmia, · · Def end ant s. 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_ __ _I~9~-~~~~~-~--------- County, Virginia, asks leave of the Court to file this as his answer to said petition and to said notice. My name is ____________ f':tB.o r..r-e _.N. .. __C.m::ir..a.d.__________________________________ _ ~~:_r:_~ My post office ad.dress is ___ ______ ~_?-~~~!:..t'I~--~~!...."i!..:1_~~-----------------1n the nroceedl=?.Qf owned bv ~ Fr$.n hifflett I claim a right, title, estate-or interestiK a tract c,1 pa:1ee1 o:f ia:nww1thm tlie area sought to be condemned, containing about_ _________________ acres, on which there are the following buildings and improvement s: ________ fi_~~_.9_:j,_~_ifI!_.fU-§_q,_p_;~ _.9_V{l'_:J.~-~ ______ _____________ _ . Ian d 1s . Iocat ed a bou t ____________ one Tlus Yancey •. . m . m1·1es f rom_________ ____________________ v·1rgmia, the __ to.n.e-..H1...l-l ---Magisteri al District of said Countv. d f' t'h e T) ro c e e s o -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.) ----------- ~;3Q.0.....0.0...-w-i-th--i-:At.e..~e.s..t_.fr .or __ .!¾Y.f''"' b.e..r._2_ - ¾-~-~ "7- ,J::_~ +---l<Jl_<:t._ ,__~~~ d -~ ~ - ere:....~------- -------- - - ---- - ---- The land owners adjacent to the above described tract or parcel of land are as follo,w s: North _____________________________________________________________________________ _ South _________________________________________________________________________ ____ _ East _________________________________________ __ _______________ ____________________ _ West _____________ ____ ____ _______ __ _""t""he 7iruce-ed - -uf ------- ---------- - - -------! acquired my right, title, estate or interest to/ this property about the year_l~l.9____ in the following manner: ___l=t,1_J2~~-a.:. __o_t_!;_~~~-t _9-I:J~J__~.?-~ ~--~~L-!_9_~~_!__ ~9__C: _}~: --~~-e-~~!__~_~:r_:~~-!~~-'- fro.r1 _G--'--F.r...ank._ ·_ffJ...et.t..._e .I.; _yLif.B_,_ __g_u.l~~ -:r..e_c. r_a_~Q..._iri__J ..f__};; ..f__ll.f>_,_ __p_!..l.9_~ _ I claim that the total value of this tract or parcel of land with the improvement s thereon is $----------- -----· I claim that the total value of my right, title, estate or interest, in and to this tract or parcel of land with the improvement s thereon is$-~ -~ ~---: , _ ~ I am the owner of_ _______________ acres of land adjoining the above described tract or parcel of land but lying outside the Park are a, which I claim will be damaged by the proposed condemnation of lands within the Park area, to the extent of $-- ----- - ----------· (In the space below should be set out any additional statements or information as to this claim which claimant desires to make; and if practicable he should also insert here a description of the tract or parcel of land by metes and bounds). Remarks· -- - - ------- ------------ - ----------- ---- --- ---------- ----------- ---------- - �Co nty: Rocki ngham Distr ict: Stone all ·,ll57- a - Shiff lett I G. Acrea, e Claim ed: Va l ue Clai d: Locat ion: 69 rank Asses sed: 55-40 lliO' 3 9 000 . CO " Three miles so th of 1 3,.,0. 00 lkton . Deed: 56 -(1908 ) Consi derati on 2 . 00-etc 7his tract is entire ly 1ithin the park area. Ino branc es • . c:>..i.ilt er claims or 1 ps: None kno,.;n .. §ill: Slope type . hods: Three miles over -O )unty r oad to ~lkton . istory :,f tr3;ot ,And c nditio n of ti mber: remov ed fro tis tract, leavi ng 1othin g but fuel ood estim ted to cut an averag makin g a tota l ot Improv ements : All mercu antablhe timbe r has been of 160 cords valued hich is 0¢ per cord ao. oo • •fone . lue of land br types: 1:Iru! Slope ?ota l value per acre 2A or land Total va l e of timbe r rot al value Va ..ue .A creage or tre.ot 4 . 00 92 . 00 80 • .,0 172. 00 Avera ge value per acre 7.48 x -- Thi s includ co tract 1/157. otal Vulue 92 . 00 �, ·. . .- . ..:·rank - S 1ifflett 1 517 _ -- ---~- ---''i----=--- ~aunty{ :ockingham Dist r ict : Stonewal l N c. u.ry C . Cravrford. 1 Jr.1cob Yost LEG-~HD SLope Ccule - l" - W chains 5£3 � 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 Shifflett, Alex - Shuler, James Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context shifflett-g-frank.pdf Title A name given to the resource Shifflett, G. Frank Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse Description An account of the resource Location: Three miles south of Elkton 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): 157a 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 Shifflett