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Settle s legacy
This orchard and the land on which you are walking was owned by Julia M. Settle, who was bom and raised in Rappahannock County. She inherited the 170 acres of land from the estate of her father, John J. Miller, in 1926.
Miller owned several thousand acres in the Flint Hill area, extending up the slope of the Blue Ridge to what is now Skyline Drive. At age 22 years, on June 6, 1923, Julia had married James M. Settle. James was Clerk of the Rappahannock County Circuit Court, and he served in this capacity from 1922 through 1962.
In 1933, Julia sold this tract of land to the Virginia State Commission on Conservation and Development under the provisions of the Virginia Public Park Condemnation Act. This, and many other tracts of land along the Blue Ridge, were then given by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the U. S. government to form what became Shenandoah National Park.
When Julia inherited the land in 1926, it was valued at $5,000. She sold it to the Commonwealth of Virginia in
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