Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.
Riverside
Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: October 12, 2014
Caption: Riverside
Additional Description: Riverside, the home of Maj. James R. Richards, stands in the forks of the Shenandoahs and was in the path of the Battle of Front Royal. Stonewall Jackson slept here on the night of the Battle. “May 24. Last night the soldiers were coming in town til 12 o’clock and such shouting and cheering I have never heard before. I did not close my eyes with sleep the whole night. Our men have been bringing in prisoners all day...” —Buck Blakemore, Warren Heritage Society Archives.
Close-up of sidebar on marker

Submitted: October 22, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p289793
File Size: 1.596 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.