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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rockland getting eviscerated on social. Hopefully they get the message and reverse course. Would be too bad if this was the generation that got greedy and lost the property. [/quote]

I don't know if we can call them greedy at this point.  Surely they want to be paid fairly, and have expenses of their own.[/quote]

The original landowner - A.T.M. Rust - was compensated $17 for the condemned land in 1871 ($367 in 2019 dollars). This was before the plaintiff's heirs bought the land.

So the ownership claim remained, but the condemned land could be used for only the purposes of the Ferry.

This is really a documentation problem for White's Ferry. There is no authoritative map in the 1871 Condemnation order than pinpoints the condemned land. But the owner of the land at that time clearly knew where the condemned land was located and allowed the ferry depot & road to be built.

In short, the plaintiff's are taking advantage of a lack of conclusive documentation to kick the Ferry off the strip of land (despite the fact that the land cannot be used for anything but the Ferry!)[/quote]

A quick search online of old maps of Loudoun County show where the original (Conrad’s) ferry crossing was located. It was a few yards upstream from where White’s Ferry is located today. [/quote]

Can you link to the maps or the website? The 2004 repairs to the retaining wall didn’t move the ferry landing a few yards. If there was movement over the course of 230 years, it happened under the eye of the Rust ancestors.

In my view, the entire debacle about no map of the 1871 Condemnation should be moot. Their ancestor ATM Rust oversaw the road and ferry ramp! I mean, it just didn’t radically move over time. The entire line of argumentation is Kafka’esque.[/quote]

Here is the clearest one:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3851s.cwh00030/?r=-0.155,-0.037,0.737,0.407,0[/quote]

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