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Shenandoah County (formerly Dunmore County) is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 44,186. Its county seat is Woodstock. It is part of the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia.
website: http://www.shenandoahcountyva.us; USGS GNIS ID: 1673918; FIPS 6-4 (US counties): 51171
Jackson's Valley campaign, also known as the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862, was Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's spring 1862 campaign through the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia during the American Civil War. Employing audacity and rapid, unpredictable movements on interior lines, Jackson's 17,000 men marched 646 miles (1,040 km) in 48 days and won several minor battles as they successfully engaged three Union armies (52,000 men), preventing them from reinforcing the Union offensive against Richmond.
Basye is a census-designated place (CDP) in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,374 at the 2020 census. As of the 2000 census, the CDP was known as Basye-Bryce Mountain.
USGS GNIS ID: 2389177, 1481487
The Battle of Fisher's Hill was fought September 21–22, 1864, near Strasburg, Virginia, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War. Despite its strong defensive position, the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal Early was defeated by the Union Army of the Shenandoah, commanded by Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan.
Strasburg is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States, which was founded in 1761 by Peter Stover. It is the largest town by population in the county and is known for its grassroots art culture, pottery, antiques, and American Civil War history. The population was 7,083 at the 2020 census.
USGS GNIS ID: 1487663, 2391430; website: https://www.strasburgva.com/
New Market is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Founded as a small crossroads trading town in the Shenandoah Valley, it has a population of 2,155 as of the most recent 2020 U.S. census. The north–south U.S. 11 and the east–west U.S. 211 pass near it and cross Massanutten Mountain at the town's titular gap.
website: http://www.newmarketvirginia.com; USGS GNIS ID: 1497040, 2391326
Toms Brook is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The population was 258 at the 2010 census.
USGS GNIS ID: 1500231, 2391447
Edinburg is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,041 at the 2010 census.
website: http://www.townofedinburg.com; USGS GNIS ID: 1494215, 2390160
Mount Jackson is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,994 at the 2010 census.
USGS GNIS ID: 1498404, 2391318
The Battle of New Market was fought on May 15, 1864, in Virginia during the Valley Campaigns of 1864 in the American Civil War. A makeshift Confederate army of 4,100 men defeated the larger Army of the Shenandoah under Major General Franz Sigel, delaying the capture of Staunton by several weeks.
Oranda is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, Virginia United States. At one time Oranda had a general store located on the corner of Clary Road and Oranda Road. The community was also home to a women's college located on Old Factory Road. Children in the community attended the Oranda school house from its construction in 1894 until the mid-1950s.
USGS GNIS ID: 1496049
Orkney Springs is a CDP in western Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The reason for the name "Orkney" is unknown, but believed to be tied to either the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland or to the Earl of Orkney, since one of the earliest European landowners was Dr. John McDonald, a Scottish physician. The "Springs" part of the name comes from the numerous underground mineral springs in the area.
USGS GNIS ID: 1485992
Quicksburg is a CDP in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1497110
Red Banks is the former name of an unincorporated area in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Red Banks was located on what is now U.S. Route 11, 2.2 miles (3.5 km) southwest of Edinburg.
USGS GNIS ID: 1502772
Rude's Hill is a 981-foot hill just outside of the town of Mt. Jackson in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States, primarily known because it was a strategically placed elevation on which many Civil War events occurred. It was named after the Danish Lutheran minister Anders Rudolph Rude, who arrived in the US in 1836 and married the widow of the Steenbergen plantation. They inhabited a house on the hill called "Locust Grove" which dates to 1792, according to county records. As of July 2014 when the property was for sale, "Locust Grove" was in severely neglected condition with several ungainly exterior modifications over the years, but was still standing.
Saint Luke is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1500012
Saumsville is a CDP in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Saumsville is located approximately 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north of Woodstock, Virginia and 8.4 miles (13.5 km) southwest of Strasburg, Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1500030
Shenandoah Caverns is a commercial show cave located near Mount Jackson, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. It is the only cavern in Virginia that has elevator access.
website: http://www.shenandoahcaverns.com
Shenandoah Valley Academy (SVA) is a private, co-educational, boarding, high school in New Market, Virginia, United States. It has both boarding and day school programs serving approximately 250 students in grades 9 through 12. The campus is located in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, approximately 90 minutes west of Washington, DC. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and the Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools. It is a member of the Virginia Council for Private Education. The school was founded in 1908, with its first students enrolling that fall and graduated its first senior class in the spring of 1911.
USGS GNIS ID: 1487181; website: http://www.shenandoahvalleyacademy.org/
The Shenanandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District is a National Heritage Area in Virginia. The district comprises eight counties in the Shenandoah Valley, including the scene of Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862, Lee's Gettysburg Campaign of 1863 and Sheridan's Shenandoah Campaign of 1864.
Shenandoah Valley Music Festival is the longest running music festival in Virginia. It presents a concert series each summer that takes place mid-July through Labor Day weekend at Shrine Mont in Orkney Springs, Virginia. The Festival started in 1963 as a way of bringing symphonic music to the rural Shenandoah Valley. Symphonic music is still included in the series; other genres including bluegrass, country, folk, pop-rock, roots, and Americana are also presented. Past artists have included Bruce Hornsby, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Home Free, The Temptations, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kenny G, LeAnn Rimes, Ricky Skaggs, Kris Kristofferson, Pure Prairie League, Poco, and The Beach Boys.
Short Mountain lies along the northwestern margin of Massanutten Mountain in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It is seven miles in length, from Mount Jackson on the south end to Edinburg on the north, so it was also once known as "Seven-mile Mountain". The Massanutten Trail traverses the mountain.
USGS GNIS ID: 1494270
Stonewall Jackson High School is a public high school located in Quicksburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. It is home to almost 625 students, in grades 9–12. The school is part of the Shenandoah County Public School System. Michael Lenox is the current principal.
website: http://sjhs.shenandoah.k12.va.us/
Strasburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses 206 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the town of Strasburg. It includes a variety of commercial, residential, and institutional buildings dating from the 18th to 20th centuries. Notable buildings include the George Eberly House, Presbyterian Church (c. 1830), Alton House, Spengler Hall (c. 1830), Spengler's Mill (1794), Bell Pottery (pre-1878), Strasburg Christian Church, Strasburg Methodist Church (1905), St. Paul's Lutheran Church (1892), First National Bank (c. 1910), Home Theatre (1930s), Strasburg School (1910) and the Sonner House (1757).
NRHP reference number: 84003595
WSVG was a broadcast radio station licensed to Woodstock, Virginia, serving Woodstock and Shenandoah County, Virginia. WSVG was last owned and operated by Shenandoah Valley Group, Inc. Its license was cancelled on October 1, 2019.
USGS GNIS ID: 1498961
WCLM-LP was a broadcast radio station licensed to Woodstock, Virginia, serving the Woodstock/Edinburg area. WCLM-LP was owned and operated by Portering the Glory International, Inc.
WFQX (99.3 MHz) is a classic rock formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Front Royal, Virginia, serving the Northern Shenandoah Valley. WFQX is owned and operated by iHeartMedia.
website: http://www.993thefox.com/
WOTC is a Religious formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Edinburg, Virginia, serving Woodstock and Shenandoah County, Virginia. WOTC is owned and operated by Valley Baptist Church - Christian School.
WVRX (104.9 FM) is a Southern Gospel formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Strasburg, Virginia, serving the Northern Shenandoah Valley. WVRX is owned by Point FM Ministries. WVRX simulcasts sister station WVRS.
website: http://www.newstalk1400winc.com/
Wheatfield is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1496398
The Woodstock Museum of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Inc., was formed in 1969 by a volunteer board of directors, and is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to "Preserving the Past for the Future." The Museum's artifacts are housed in two mid-late 18th century homes located in the heart of downtown Woodstock, Virginia, in the historic Shenandoah Valley. The Museum is open seasonally, May through October, Thursdays - Saturdays, from 1 pm until 4 pm.
Street address: 104 South Muhlenberg Street Woodstock, VA 22664 (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.woodstockmuseumva.org/
The Andrew Zirkle Mill is a 1760s era grist mill located in the southern end of Shenandoah County, Virginia. The mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 after being restored by Glenn Hofecker, the owner at the time. The mill is cited as a prime example of the architecture and construction of grist mills and manufacturing facilities of its era.
NRHP reference number: 83003316
Hawkinstown is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1494233
Meems Bottom Covered Bridge (also Meem's Bottom Covered Bridge) is in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The bridge, at 204 feet (62 m), is the longest covered bridge in Virginia and one of the last that supports regular traffic. Near the town of Mount Jackson, the Meems Bottom Covered Bridge features a 200-foot single-span wooden Burr arch structure. Built in 1892 by Franklin Hiser Wissler, the wooden bridge over the North Fork of the Shenandoah River provided access to his apple orchards at Strathmore Farms. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 1975.
NRHP reference number: 75002037
WAMM is a country and Americana formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Mount Jackson, Virginia, serving Woodstock and Shenandoah County, Virginia. WAMM is owned and operated by Shenandoah Valley Group, Inc.
website: http://www.wsvgradio.com/
Abraham Beydler House, also known as Valhalla Farm, is a historic home located near Maurertown, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built about 1800, and is a two-story, six room, brick dwelling in the Federal style. It has a full basement and a two-story ell added perpendicularly to the house around 1850. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse and the remains of a spring house. The house is representative of German immigrant adoption of the Federal style of architecture, popular among residents of the Shenandoah Valley.
NRHP reference number: 01001568
Benjamin Wierman House, also known as the Gorman Lloyd House and Snapp House, is a historic home located near Quicksburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1859, and is a two-story, frame I-house dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It sits on an English basement. The house features a long set of new wooden steps that lead up to a small front portico and massive cut limestone chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing one-story frame spring house with a loft, a small meat house, a frame chicken house, and a horse barn site.
NRHP reference number: 08000077
Bowman–Zirkle Farm, also known as the Isaiah Bowman Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The farmhouse was built in 1879, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame I-house dwelling with an integral wing. The remaining contributing resources are a 19th-century log-and-frame tenant house, a summer kitchen (c. 1823), frame meat house (c. 1880), a large bank barn (the Bowman barn, c. 1870); a barn shed, a second bank barn (the Painter barn, c. 1880), a frame granary (c. 1880), a wood-stave silo (c. 1900), and a large, two-story chicken house (c. 1920).
NRHP reference number: 09000642
Clem–Kagey Farm, also known as the Hiram C. Clem House and Kagey House, is a historic home and farm located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The farmhouse was built in 1880, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame I-house dwelling with an integral rear wing. It features a full-width, two-story Italianate style ornamented front porch and two brick interior chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing frame garage (c. 1920), the two-story frame wagon shed/shop building (c. 1880), and granary (c. 1880).
NRHP reference number: 09000643
Daniel Munch House is a historic home and farm located near Fort Valley, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1834, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick I-house dwelling in a vernacular late-Federal style. It has a 1+1⁄2-story two-room brick rear ell, with a partially exposed basement and a wraparound porch. Also on the property are the contributing bank barn (c. 1929), frame tool shed, equipment or vehicle shed with attached corn crib, livestock shed, and the Ridenour family cemetery.
NRHP reference number: 02000181
Dr. Christian Hockman House, also known as Chequers, is a historic home located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1868, and is a two-story three bay square, Italian Villa style brick dwelling. It features a prominent square central tower; wide, bracketed cornices, embellished with decorative scroll-sawn friezes; and an elaborately detailed front verandah.
NRHP reference number: 84003593
Edinburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses 292 contributing buildings, 6 contributing sites, 3 contributing structures, and 3 contributing objects in the town of Edinburg. It includes a variety of commercial, residential, and institutional buildings dating primarily from the time of its incorporation in 1852 to the mid-20th century. They are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Colonial Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne. Notable buildings include the Philip Grandstaff House (1787), Edinburg Hotel, St. John's United Methodist Church (1916), Edinburg High School (1932-1933), Rush House, The Hatch, Piccadilly House (1850), Pres Grandstaff House, Masonic Building (1879), Harshman House (1900), Rest Haven Inn, Edinburg Train Station, Edinburg Village Shops (1896), Wrenn Building (c. 1900), Edinburg Town Hall (1903), St. Paul's United Church of Christ (1911), and the Mantz House (1930). Located in the district is the separately listed Edinburg Mill.
NRHP reference number: 98000845
Fort Bowman, also known as Harmony Hall, is a historic home and national historic district located near Middletown, Frederick County, Virginia. It was built in 1753, by Pennsylvania German settler George Bowman (1699–1768), father of Colonel John Bowman (1738-1784), Colonel Abraham Bowman (1749-1837), Major Joseph Bowman (c. 1752–1779), and Captain Isaac Bowman (1757-1826). It is a two-story, rectangular limestone building with a gable roof. The interior retains its original woodwork. It has a later kitchen wing and iron and wood portico. Also on the property are a contributing dairy / smokehouse and the Bowman graveyard, which includes the grave of Isaac Bowman.
NRHP reference number: 69000279
Hupp House, also known as the Frontier Fort and Hupp Homestead, is a historic home located in Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built about 1755, and is a 4-story, rubble limestone Colonial-era dwelling. It is on a banked site and measures 20 feet wide by 40 feet deep. A concrete block east wing was added in 1956. The house has a steep gable roof and features a traditional Germanic central chimney and the interior framing appears original, with heavy traditional Germanic beams and roof structure. It is one of the oldest extant dwellings erected by Germanic settlers in Shenandoah County.
NRHP reference number: 97000155
J.W.R. Moore House, also known as the J.W. Miller House and J.C. Biller House, is a historic home located at Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1871, and is a two-story, three-bay, L-shaped brick dwelling in the Italianate style. It features elaborate wood trim and a large, square belvedere with a tall finial. Also on the property are the contributing brick combination icehouse / smokehouse / summer kitchen (c. 1871) and a frame tenant house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
NRHP reference number: 05001275
Lantz Hall is a historic building located at Massanutten Military Academy, Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1907–1909, and is a 3 1/2-story, seven bay by three bay, brick faced frame building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a projecting Gothic tower pavilion and three-bay pointed-arched porch. In 1926, a three-story, seven-by-three bay, gable-roofed ell was constructed to the rear. The building houses a dormitory, classrooms, a gymnasium/firing range, and an auditorium. It was the second building built on the Massanutten Military Academy campus.
NRHP reference number: 92001711
Lantz Mill, also known as Lantz Roller Mill, is a historic grist mill located at Lantz Mills, near the town of Edinburg in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was rebuilt in 1865, after being destroyed by Union troops in 1864 during "The Burning", an American Civil War military action conducted by General Philip Sheridan in the Valley Campaigns of 1864. It is a 2+1⁄2-story frame building erected with post-and-beam construction. It sits on an eight foot high limestone foundation and has a steep standing seam metal gable roof. Four additions were made to the mill in the early 20th century. The mill foundation, mill race (contributing), and mill-dam were constructed some time before 1813. The mill closed in the late 1970s.
NRHP reference number: 07001145
Mount Jackson Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia.
NRHP reference number: 93000541
New Market Battlefield State Historical Park is a historic American Civil War battlefield and national historic district located near New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses the site of the Battle of New Market, a battle fought on May 15, 1864, during Valley Campaigns of 1864. In the middle of the battlefield stands the Bushong House, used by both sides as a hospital during the battle and now the visitor center for the 300-acre park.
NRHP reference number: 70000824
New Market Historic District is a national historic district located at New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings in the crossroads town of New Market. It includes a variety of commercial, residential, and institutional buildings dating primarily from 19th century. They are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Victorian, Federal, and Georgian. Notable buildings include the Henkel house (c. 1800), Lee-Jackson Hotel (c. 1810), Solon Henkel House (c. 1800), Salyard House, Rupp House, and Emmanuel Lutheran Church.
NRHP reference number: 72001416
Orkney Springs Hotel is a historic resort spa complex located at Orkney Springs, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The oldest building, known as Maryland House, was built in 1853, and is a two-story, rectangular stuccoed frame building. It is faced on all sides by double galleries. The main hotel building, known as Virginia House, was built between 1873 and 1876. It is a four-story, stuccoed frame, H-shaped building measuring 100 feet by 165 feet and features a three-story verandah. The hotel contains 175 bedrooms. The remaining contributing resources are the three-story Pennsylvania House (1867), seven identical two-story, six-room, hipped roof cottages, and a small columned pavilion located next to the mineral springs.
NRHP reference number: 76002119
Alonzaville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Alonzaville lies at the crossroads of Virginia Secondary Routes 623 and 604. According to the Geographic Names Information System, Alonzaville has also been known as Alonzoville and Alorzaville.
USGS GNIS ID: 1477963, 2830681
The Battle of Strasburg was a relatively minor engagement in the American Civil War when a small Union force of New Jersey infantry delayed three Confederate divisions from the army of Jubal A. Early at Strasburg, Virginia.
The Battle of Tom's Brook was fought on October 9, 1864, near Tom's Brook in Shenandoah County, Virginia, during Philip Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign of the American Civil War. It resulted in a significant Union victory, one that was mockingly dubbed the Woodstock Races for the speed of the Confederate withdrawal.
Big Schloss is a peak in the Great North Mountain range of the Ridge and Valley Appalachians, with an elevation of 2,964 feet (903 m). The peak is located in George Washington National Forest on the border of Virginia and West Virginia, though according to Topozone, the actual summit is in Virginia. The trail is part of the Lee Ranger District. It features a rocky outcropping of white sandstone with expansive views into Trout Run Valley in West Virginia and Little Schloss Mountain in Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1481781
Bowmans Crossing is a CDP in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States.
USGS GNIS ID: 1494189
Calvary is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1494195
Campbell Farm, also known as Hite Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The house was built in 1888–1889, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, three-bay, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features corner turrets, a hipped roof with patterned slate shingles, and a front porch with a sawnwork balustrade. The property includes a number of contributing outbuildings including a wash house / kitchen, two-room privy, a barn, a machine shed, and a corn crib.
NRHP reference number: 90001416
Carmel is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Carmel lies within Fort Valley at the crossroads of Virginia Secondary Route 678 (Fort Valley Road) and Oak Tree Road.
USGS GNIS ID: 1499216
Clary is a census-designated place in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1495395
Columbia Furnace is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1499292
Conicville is a census-designated place in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia, at the intersection of State Route 42 - Senedo Road (also referred to Back Road in earlier times and Censuses) and County Road 703 - Conicville Road. Conicville was formerly known as Cabin Hill, as it was a cluster of approximately 22 homes, Christ Church and several, now closed, businesses, and is located at the northeast end of the Cabin Hill ridge that runs parallel to and just east of Swover Creek and State Route 42, from Hudson Crossroads, at SR 42 and CR 720 - Crooked Run Road. The US Geological Survey notes a Bench Mark elevation of 1256 feet, just south of the SR 42 / CR 703 intersection. Latitude 38.83 and longitude -78.69.
USGS GNIS ID: 1492801
Detrick is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Detrick lies within Fort Valley at the crossroads of Virginia Secondary Route 678 (Fort Valley Road) and Seven Fountains Road.
USGS GNIS ID: 1499338
Devil's Backbone State Forest is a 705.5-acre (285.5 ha) state forest in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It lies on the slope of North Mountain in the drainage area of Cedar Creek near Star Tannery west of Strasburg. The forest was established by a grant by John and Bernice Hoffman, who owned the land since 1950.
Edinburg Mill is a grist mill in Edinburg, Virginia. The three-story wood-framed building stands on Stony Creek, set on a limestone basement. A working mill until 1978, the original structure was built in 1848 by the Grandstaff family. It replaced an 1813 complex developed by Grandstaff that included a sawmill, grist mill and a carding operation. The present mill was almost burned during the American Civil War, when forces under Union general Philip Sheridan set fire to the mill as part of their scorched-earth campaign. Local women convinced the soldiers to salvage the mill's flour, and the fire was extinguished, saving the mill.
NRHP reference number: 79003084
Elizabeth Furnace was a blast furnace in the Shenandoah Valley that was used to create pig iron from 1836 to 1888 using Passage Creek for water power. Iron ore was mined nearby, purified in the furnace, and then pig iron was transported over the Massanutten Mountain to the South Fork of the Shenandoah River for forging in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The road used to transport this iron is still used today by hikers climbing to the top of the Massanutten Mountain via the Massanutten Trail. Much of the original stone structure still exists, as well as a restored cabin, and an outdoor recreation area.
Fishers Hill is a CDP in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Fishers Hill is 2.1 miles (3.4 km) west of Strasburg. Fishers Hill has a post office with ZIP code 22626, which opened on July 28, 1882.
USGS GNIS ID: 1483426
Forestville is a CDP in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1496899
Fort Valley is a mountain valley located primarily in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It is often called "valley within a valley" as it lies between the two arms of the northern part of the Blue Ridge Mountain range in the Shenandoah Valley in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians geological zone.
USGS GNIS ID: 1483500
Little Stony Creek is a 6.8 mile long river in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is a first-order tributary of the North Fork Shenandoah River and the Potomac River.
USGS GNIS ID: 1487056
The Jacob Bowman House is a historic house at 2470 Polk Road in rural south-central Shenandoah County, Virginia, southwest of Edinburg. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a truncated hip roof and weatherboard siding. It was built about 1840, and is a good early example of vernacular Greek Revival architecture in the county. The property also includes a 19th-century bank barn and other outbuildings, as well as the remains of an early springhouse.
Street address: 2470 Polk Road (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 100000679
Lebanon Church is a census-designated place in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. The John Marshall Highway passes through it and by the Lebanon Church Cemetery.
USGS GNIS ID: 1469253
The Massanutten Trail is a 71-mile (114 km) National Recreation Trail located in George Washington National Forest in Central Virginia. Much of the path is steep and rugged terrain, and presents many mountain vistas. The trail traverses the Massanutten Range around its inner valley. Shenandoah National Park is to the east, and Great North Mountain is west.
Maurertown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 770.
USGS GNIS ID: 1499714, 2628838
Mount Clifton is a census-designated place in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 decennial census the village was noted as having 110 residents with 6 being Native American or Alaska Native, 1 being Asian, 0 Black or African American individuals, 7 of Hispanic or Latino descent, 0 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, 4 of Some Other Race, 8 of Two or More Races, and 91 White. It was also noted as having 54 housing units, 3 of which are noted as being vacant.
USGS GNIS ID: 1493316, 2807444
Mount Olive is a census-designated place in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1477561
New Market Airport (FAA LID: 8W2) is a privately owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of the central business district of New Market, a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The facility serves primarily general aviation for the areas around New Market. The facility is also the base for a skydiving operation—Skydive Shenandoah—and arriving aircraft should be sure to check if skydiving operations are in progress on Unicom frequency 122.80. Skydiving Operations are intensive on weekends throughout the year.
USGS GNIS ID: 1496451; FAA airport code: 8W2
Shenandoah County Farm, also known as the Shenandoah County Almshouse and Beckford Parish Glebe Farm, is a historic almshouse and poor farm located near Maurertown, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The almshouse was built in 1829, and is a large, brick Federal style institutional building. It consists of a two-story, five-bay central section flanked by one-story, eight-bay, flanking wings. A nearly identical building is at the Frederick County Poor Farm. A two-story, rear kitchen wing was added about 1850. Also on the property are the contributing stone spring house, a large modern frame barn (1952), a frame meat house (1894), a cemetery, and a portion of an American Civil War encampment site, occupied by Union troops prior to the Battle of Tom's Brook.
NRHP reference number: 93001122
Snapp House, also known as Wildflower Farm, is a historic home located near Fishers Hill, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built about 1790, and is a two-story Continental log dwelling sheathed in weatherboard. It sits on a limestone basement and has a two-story, rubble limestone rear ell with a central chimney. A small frame structure connects the log section to the rear ell. Also on the property is the contributing site of a spring house.
NRHP reference number: 79003085
Hamburg is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Hamburg is located approximately 4.15 miles (6.68 km) southwest of Edinburg, Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1493052
Bauserman Farm, also known as Kagey-Bauserman Farm, is a historic farmstead located near Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1860, and is a two-story, three-bay, gable-roofed, balloon-framed “I-house.” It has an integral rear ell, wide front porch and handsome late-Victorian scroll-sawn wood decoration. Also on the property are the contributing chicken house (early 1800s), a privy (early 1800s), a two-story summer kitchen (ca. 1823), a frame granary (ca. 1893), a large bank barn (ca. 1893), a chicken house (ca. 1940), the foundation of the former circular icehouse (early-19th century) and the foundation of a former one-room log cabin (early 1800s).
NRHP reference number: 10001064
The Forestville Historic District is a national historic district located at Forestville, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses 84 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the 19th century mill village of Forestville. The vernacular buildings represent a variety of popular architectural styles including Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Italianate. The buildings date from the late-18th to mid-20th centuries and primarily include log and wood-frame single dwellings, with domestic and agricultural dependencies, that dominate the district are substantiated by a gristmill, two commercial buildings. Also in the district are a church, a cemetery, a post office, two doctors' offices, and a school.
NRHP reference number: 11000874
The John Miley Maphis House is a historic home located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1856, and is a frame, two-story, gable-roofed, L-shaped, vernacular Italianate style dwelling. The interior features unusual, boldly scaled, grain painted, late-Greek Revival interior woodwork. Also on the property are the contributing frame bank barn with forebay (c. 1870), a one-story frame wash house with gable roof and forebay (c. 1900), and a shed roofed, frame chicken house with horizontal- and vertical-board siding (c. 1920).
NRHP reference number: 11000840
Mount Pleasant is a historic home located near Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1812, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay, brick Federal style dwelling. The four-bay, one-story southeastern wing, constructed of dressed-rubble limestone, was probably built about 1790. It was renovated in the 1930s and in 1979. Also on the property are the contributing brick, pyramidal-roofed smokehouse (c. 1812); a large, frame, bank barn (c. 1890–1900); a frame wagon shed/corn crib (c. 1920); a frame tenant house and garage (c. 1920); an old well, no longer in use, with a circular stone wall and gable-roofed frame superstructure (c. 1920); a substantial, brick, gable-roofed, one-story garage (c. 1930); and the original road configuration from about 1790.
NRHP reference number: 11000553
The Museum of American Presidents located in Strasburg, Virginia, is a museum which tells about Virginia's influence on the Presidency.
The Stoner–Keller House and Mill, also known as the Abraham Stoner House, John H. Keller House, and Stoner Mill, is a historic home and grist mill located near Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The main house was built in 1844, and is a two-story, five-bay, gable-roofed, L-shaped, vernacular Greek Revival style brick "I-house." It has a frame, one-story, three-bay, hip-roofed front porch with late-Victorian scroll-sawn wood decoration. The Stoner–Keller Mill was built about 1772 and enlarged about 1855. It is a gambrel-roofed, four-story, limestone building with a Fitz steel wheel added about 1895. Also on the property are the contributing tailrace trace (1772), frame tenant house and bank barn (c. 1880), and a dam ruin (c. 1920).
NRHP reference number: 12001269
Strasburg Stone and Earthenware Manufacturing Company, also known as the Strasburg Museum, Steam Pottery, and Southern Railroad Station, is a historic factory building located at Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1891, and is a two-story, 10-bay brick building originally constructed for the Strasburg Stone and Earthenware Manufacturing Company to make earthenware. It was converted to railroad use in 1913, at which time a one-story pent roof was added. The building is covered with a slate-clad hipped roof surmounted by a hipped monitor. The building served as a station and depot for the Southern Railroad.
NRHP reference number: 79003086
Toms Brook School is a historic school building located at Toms Brook, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1935–1936, and it is a two-story, T-shaped, red brick Colonial Revival-style school building. It features a monumental portico with tall columns that support the pediment.
Street address: 3232 South Main Street (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 11000554
The Wilkins Farm is a historic farmstead at 989 Swover Creek Road in rural Shenandoah County, Virginia, near Edinburg. The home was recognized under three criterion. Criterion A under Exploration/Settlement as a late 18th-century German farmstead, Criterion B in the area of Art as the boyhood home of fraktur artist Emanuel Wilkins, and Criterion C for Architecture of German builders who used native materials of limestone, hardwoods and Yellow pine. The primary dwelling on the farm was a frontier log structure, c.1776 that was evolved to a two-story midland folk, log home c. 1789. The older portion, a simple log cabin, was built by Augustine Cofman in order to satisfy the requirements of a land grant he had received the prior year, which required placement of a dwelling on the 188.5-acre (76.3 ha) grant. A The larger, two- story log structure was built with the cabin as a side ell. The farm was in the Wilkins family from 1824 until 2003.
NRHP reference number: 13001175
Bryce Resort is a 400-acre, member-owned resort in the northern part of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley that is open to the public. The facility opened in 1965 and is located near the West Virginia border, 11 miles west of Mount Jackson, Virginia. The resort is very popular with residents of the valley as well as families and tourists from the Washington, D.C. area, some 115 miles (185 km) away. Principal activities include skiing, golfing, mountain activities, mountain biking, tennis, fishing, and water sports at Lake Laura and the resort pool.
Strasburg Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church in Strasburg, Virginia, US.
USGS GNIS ID: 1673936
Shrine Mont is a retreat and conference center owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia in the town of Orkney Springs, Virginia, United States which is located at the foot of Great North Mountain in the Shenandoah Valley and at the edge of the George Washington National Forest. It includes about 1,100 acres of forest.
Hudson Crossroads is a census-designated place in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 2830959
Seven Bends State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Virginia, located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from the town of Woodstock, near the historic "Seven Bends" region of the North Fork Shenandoah River. The park, Virginia's 41st, provides recreational and land-based outdoor recreational and educational opportunities for visitors while protecting the natural resources of the river and the surrounding landscape.
Locust Grove is an census-designated place in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 2830961
USGS GNIS ID: 1480236; FAA airport code: 9VA4
FAA airport code: VA32; USGS GNIS ID: 1498658
FAA airport code: VA58; USGS GNIS ID: 1488667
USGS GNIS ID: 1498588; FAA airport code: VG18
Street address: South Main Street, Woodstock, VA 22664 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 514 Stoney Creek Boulevard, Edinburg, VA 22824 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 195 West King St., Strasburg, VA 22657 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 160 East Lee St., New Market, VA 22844 (from Wikidata)
Street address: Airport Road, Basye, VA 22810 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 6190 Woodstock Tower Road, Fort Valley, VA 22652 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 5901 Main Street, Mt. Jackson, VA 22842 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 151 West King Steet, Strasburg, VA 22657 (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.strasburgtheater.com
Street address: 5956 Main Street, Mount Jackson, VA 22842 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 136 N. Main Street, Woodstock, VA 22664 (from Wikidata)
website: https://inthecoracle.org/