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 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.
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. . . . — — Map (db m15752) 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.
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 m239845) 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 m41496) 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 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 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.
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 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 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 m86489) 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
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 South Main Street (Business U.S. 11), on the left when traveling north. 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) at Franklin Street, on the left when traveling north on South Main Street.
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 m158113) 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
