New info from the National Park Service

I just received a package from a Museum Specialist at Shenandoah National Park. She included information on park Tract 47a, owned by Solomon Hensley. She included two land deed records with this tract's information and one of them matches exactly the land that Frances Shiflett purchased and her son John Allen sold. The other parcel mentions John Allen's line, so we now know that our parcel sits east of the other. Luckily she also sent a map showing the shape of Tract 47a and its neighboring tracts! Using this map, I believe we must adjust our estimate of where the parcel lies just a touch to the west so that the eastern boundary of the parcel falls on the western of the two branches you can see on the topo map in an earlier post (we were still VERY close). We are going up to this area to hike through it on Sunday. We'll post pictures of whatever (if anything) we find. It should be exciting!