The Corbin Cabin is a log structure built by George T. Corbin in 1909 in the Nicholson Hollow area of what is now

Shenandoah National Park Shenandoah National Park (often ) is an American national park that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west, and the ...

. Corbin was forced to vacate the land on which the cabin sits in 1938, when the land was added to Shenandoah National Park. The cabin is unique in that it is one of a small number of buildings located in Nicholson Hollow spared during the creation of the park, and still remains standing despite recent forest fires. The cabin is maintained by the

Potomac Appalachian Trail Club The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) is a volunteer organization that works to maintain hiking trails in the Washington, D.C. area of the United States. PATC was founded in 1927 to protect and develop the local section of the then new Appala ...

and is accessible within the park by means of Nicholson Hollow Trail.Corbin Mountain Hike
/ref> As the George T. Corbin Cabin, it was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1989.

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National Register of Historic Places in Shenandoah National Park Houses completed in 1909 Log cabins in the United States Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses in Madison County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Virginia 1909 establishments in Virginia Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia {{Virginia-struct-stub