On East Market Street (U.S. 33) just west of Broad Street, on the right when traveling west.
Anthony Hockman
House
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1872
— — Map (db m158130) HM
On Bluestone Drive south of Champions Drive, on the right when traveling south.
The mission of Beta Gamma Sigma is to encourage and honor academic achievement and personal excellence in the study and practice of business. Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest national recognition an eligible student can receive. . . . — — Map (db m253889) HM
On West Bruce Street just west of South Main Street (U.S. 11), on the right when traveling west.
Bishop
Francis Asbury
held the
first conference
of the
Methodist Church
west of the
Blue Ridge Mountains
in this building
June 2, 1794
— — Map (db m158117) HM
On Court Square (U.S. 33) just west of South Main Street (U.S. 11), on the left when traveling east.
About a dozen disguised people took Charlotte Harris from the custody of jailers in eastern Rockingham County on the night of 6 March 1878 and hanged her from a tree approximately 13 miles southeast of here. This is the only documented lynching of . . . — — Map (db m158137) HM
Near Turner Ashby Lane 0.2 miles north of Neff Avenue. Reported permanently removed.
On June 6, 1862, the vanguard of Union Gen. John C. Frémont’s force, pursuing Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s army south up the Shenandoah Valley, reached this point near Harrisonburg. Jackson’s rear guard, led by Gen. Turner . . . — — Map (db m15752) HM
Near Turner Ashby Lane west of Neff Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
On June 6, 1862, the vanguard of Union Gen. John C. Frémont’s force, pursuing Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s army south up the Shenandoah Valley, reached this point near Harrisonburg. Jackson’s rear guard, led by Gen. Turner . . . — — Map (db m253876) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 11) 0.1 miles north of Campbell Street, on the left when traveling north.
Harrisonburg was Rockingham County’s seat of government and largest town, and it was an ideal site for a hospital. When the Civil War began in 1861, although the railroad had not yet extended to Harrisonburg, the town sat at the intersection of . . . — — Map (db m39330) HM
On East Market Street (U.S. 33), on the left when traveling west.
(North face):This Monument is erected by the Ladies Memorial Association in grateful remembrance of the gallant Confederate Soldiers, who lie here. They died in defense of the rights of the South, in the war between the States, from 1861 . . . — — Map (db m16487) HM
On Main Street (Business U.S. 11), on the left when traveling north.
During the Civil War, a road (Market Street) ran east and west through the courthouse square, dividing it roughly in half. The courthouse occupied the northern portion while the jail, clerk’s office, and springhouse were in the southern section. . . . — — Map (db m16482) HM
On Stering Street at Effinger Street, on the left when traveling north on Stering Street.
Edgar Amos Love, son of a Methodist minister,
was born in Harrisonburg in 1891. On 17 Nov.
1911, while a student at Howard University, he
co-founded Omega Psi Phi, the first fraternity
established at a historically black college. . . . — — Map (db m89327) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 11) south of Monument Avenue, on the right when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
Here Stonewall Jackson, retreating up the Valley before the converging columns of Fremont and Shields, turned at bay, June 1862. A mile southeast Jackson’s cavalry commander, Ashby, was killed, June 6. At Cross Keys, six miles southeast, Ewell of . . . — — Map (db m263592) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 11) 0.1 miles south of Miller Circle, on the right when traveling south.
After victories at Front Royal and Winchester late in May 1862, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and his army rapidly moved southward along the Valley Pike. Pursued by Union forces under Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont and Brig. Gen. James Shields, . . . — — Map (db m263594) HM
On South Main Street (Virginia Route 11) at Franklin Street, on the left when traveling north on South Main Street.
The Civil War brought trauma and pain to this stately home, built in 1856. Before the conflict began, Edward T.H. Warren, his wife, Virginia Watson Magruder, and their three children, Elizabeth, James, and Virginia resided here. With them, lived . . . — — Map (db m263480) HM
On South Main Street (Business U.S. 11) south of East Bruce Street, on the right when traveling north.
This was the home of Harrisonburg’s first mayor, Isaac Hardesty, an apothecary. Elected in 1849, Hardesty served until 1860. His Unionist sympathies compelled him to leave for Maryland after the Civil War began. Early in the first week of May . . . — — Map (db m256375) HM
On Main Street (Business U.S. 11), on the left when traveling north.
Here Thomas Harrison and wife deeded land for the Rockingham County public buildings, August 5, 1779. The same act established both Louisville, Ky., and Harrisonburg, May, 1780. Named for its founder, the town was also known as Rocktown. It was . . . — — Map (db m16484) HM
On South Liberty Street (U.S. 11) at West Grattan Street, on the left when traveling south on South Liberty Street.
On July 4, 1924, Harrisonburg and Rockingham County officials and community members dedicated the World War I Liberty Monument. Leadership provided by American Legion, Rockingham (now Dayton) Post 27 brought the monument to Harrisonburg.
World . . . — — Map (db m263588) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 11) 0.1 miles north of Bluestone Drive, on the right when traveling north.
The university was founded in 1908, through the efforts of state senator George B. Keezell, of Rockingham County, as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg. In 1924 it became the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg, . . . — — Map (db m39327) HM
On Port Republic Road (Virginia Route 253) at Bluestone Drive, on the right when traveling west on Port Republic Road.
The university was founded in 1908, through the efforts of state senator George B. Keezell, of Rockingham County, as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg. In 1924 it became the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg, . . . — — Map (db m39328) HM
On Simms Avenue at East Johnson Street, on the right when traveling north on Simms Avenue.
Lucy F. Simms was born enslaved and grew up in present-day Harrisonburg. She earned a teaching certificate from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (later Hampton University) in 1877. Like fellow Hampton graduate Booker T. Washington, Simms . . . — — Map (db m298956) HM
On North Federal Street at East Elizabeth Street, on the right when traveling north on North Federal Street.
Lucy Frances Simms, a prominent and devoted African American educator, was born approximately one mile from this location in 1855. She, her mother, and her grandmother were slaves at "Hill Top," the Robert Gray farm.
Simms and Booker T. . . . — — Map (db m158129) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 11) 0.1 miles north of East Bruce Street, on the right when traveling north. Reported permanently removed.
Harrisonburg is associated with the exploits of McNeill’s Rangers, a famous Confederate partisan unit. In 1862, John Hanson McNeill, a native of Hardy County in present-day West Virginia, recruited men for Co. E, 18th Virginia Cavalry. With . . . — — Map (db m39331) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 11) south of Newman Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Harrisonburg is associated with the exploits of McNeill’s Rangers, a famous Confederate partisan unit. In 1862, John Hanson McNeill, a native of Hardy County in present-day West Virginia, recruited men for Co. E, 18th Virginia Cavalry. With . . . — — Map (db m305350) HM
On Kelley Street at Hill Street, on the right when traveling east on Kelley Street.
African Americans established the community of Newtown in this area after the Civil War. In 1869 five trustees purchased land here for a cemetery open to "all persons of color." By 1920 the cemetery had expanded three times to accommodate . . . — — Map (db m103813) HM
On Parkwood Drive (Virginia Route 1124) 0.1 miles east of Park Road, on the right when traveling west.
This is the site of the second Park School that was built in 1929. The original building was located northeast of here at the edge of Park Woods. It began as Eastern Mennonite Elementary School but later became part of the Rockingham County Public . . . — — Map (db m158140) HM
On North Main Street at East Elizabeth Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
In July 1956, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, federal judge John Paul of Harrisonburg issued the first school desegregation order in VA. ruling for the NAACP in a suit against Charlottesville City . . . — — Map (db m274181) HM
Near South Main Street (U.S. 11) at East Market Street (U.S. 33), on the left when traveling north. Reported permanently removed.
This tree lives in memory, of those Rockingham County men, who died in Vietnam, in the service of their country.
Sp. 4 Norman Norwood Miller Apr. 1966 •
1st. Lt. Garland D. Whitmore II Sept. 1967 •
Sgt. Elza Morton Brewer, Jr. Nov. 1967 . . . — — Map (db m263567) WM
On South Main Street (U.S. 11) at East Market Street (U.S. 33), on the left when traveling north on South Main Street.
Dedicated to the memory of those Rockingham County men who died in Vietnam in service of their country
Army
SP4 Norman Norwood Miller - April 1866 •
1LT Garland D. Whitmore II - September 1967 •
Sgt Elza Morton Brewer, Jr. - . . . — — Map (db m298959) HM WM
On South Main Street, on the left when traveling north.
They Tasted Death In Youth That Liberty Might Grow Old
To commemorate those who, at the call of country, left all, endured hardships, faced danger, and finally passed out of sight of men by the path of duty, giving up their lives that others . . . — — Map (db m263585) HM
Near Turner Ashby Lane 0.2 miles north of Neff Avenue.
On wooded Chestnut Ridge the evening of Friday, June 6, 1862, Pennsylvania Bucktails under Col. Kane were defeated in a hard fight with the 58th Va. under Col. Letcher and Gen. Turner Ashby and the 1st Md. under Col. Bradley Johnson. Gen. Ashby . . . — — Map (db m40317) HM
On Courthouse Square (U.S. 33) east of West Market Street (U.S. 33), on the left when traveling east.
“For generations this great spring was the main source of water supply for the town. Before the white man settled around it the Indians and the buffaloes knew it well. It was at the crossing of two old trails—one up and down the Valley, . . . — — Map (db m11720) HM
On Willow Hill Drive 0.1 miles west of Lynne Place, on the left when traveling west.
The
George Earman House
1822
has been placed
on the
National Register
of
Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
The George Earman
House
has been registered as a
Virginia
Historic . . . — — Map (db m158103) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 11) just south of West Bruce Street, on the right when traveling north.
The
Harrisonburg
Downtown
Historic District
is listed in the
National Register
of
Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
2005
The
Harrisonburg
Downtown
Historic District
is . . . — — Map (db m158116) HM
On South Main Street (Route 11) at Court Square (U.S. 11/33), on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.
An artistic expression of Unity in Diversity, this mural was designed by a group of passionate young artists living thousands of miles away…
Harrisonburg artist David Draime (owner of Draime Fine Art Studio School) has been, along . . . — — Map (db m298960) HM
The Woodbine Cemetery Company, Incorporated March 19, 1850 1877 These gates are erected in memory of the officers and members of the Woodbine Society, who gave generously of their time and means to beautify this cemetery, where they now rest from . . . — — Map (db m16486) HM
On Court Square (U.S. 33) at South Main Street (U.S. 11), on the left when traveling east on Court Square.
To the memory of
Thomas Harrison,
patriot who on August 5, 1779
gave the land for the
County Court House
And other public buildings,
on Harrisonburg,
which was named after him. — — Map (db m263493) HM
On North Main Street (U.S. 11) at Court Square (U.S. 33), on the left when traveling north on North Main Street.
In the Natural World
In forests and meadows, about 80-percent of rain and melted snow soaks into the ground. Roots, soil, and rocks filter impurities, and then the water joins underground reservoirs. Only during heavy rains or rapid snow . . . — — Map (db m263579) HM
On Veterans Memorial Drive west of South High Street ( Route 42), in the median.
Veterans Memorial
In order to ensure that the service and sacrifice of those local
citizens who died while protecting our freedom will never be
forgotten, contributions to this memorial were provided by the
City of Harrisonburg, James . . . — — Map (db m264823) WM
On South High Street (Virginia Route 42) at West Grace Street, on the right when traveling south on South High Street.
Veterans Memorial
W. W. II 1941-1945
Korean 1950-1953
Vietnam 1957-1973
Dedicated to those who served with
honor for the freedom of America
1914-1918
November 11, 1928
In commemoration of those of Harrisonburg
and Rockingham . . . — — Map (db m264821) HM
On South Main Street (Business U.S. 11) at Franklin Street, on the left when traveling north on South Main Street. Reported permanently removed.
This was the home of Edward T.H. Warren, a Harrisonburg attorney. As a lieutenant in the Valley Guards, a Rockingham County militia company, Warren attended the trial and execution of John Brown in Charles Town (in present-day West Virginia) in . . . — — Map (db m41497) HM
On South Main Street (Business U.S. 11), on the right when traveling north.
A mile and a half east of this point, Turner Ashby, Stonewall Jackson’s cavalry commander, was killed, June 6, 1862, while opposing Fremont’s advance. — — Map (db m165743) HM
Near East Market Street (U.S. 33) at Reservoir Street.
During the Civil War, Woodbine Cemetery was Harrisonburg’s principal burial ground. Chartered in March 1850, it opened later that year after the city’s first mayor, Isaac Hardesty, sold 2.5 acres of his property to the cemetery company. The need . . . — — Map (db m39333) HM
