The Brick Church School, a wooden one-room school, stood on this site in the late 1890s. In the photograph on the left, a row of stones that formed part of the foundation is still visible. Within this one-room structure, the teacher provided . . . — — Map (db m226132) HM
Built in 1846, Catherine Furnace was one of three Page County furnaces in operation during the Civil War. The 30-foot-tall main stack is nearly all that remains of the cold blast furnace and once-huge operation here, when 22,500 acres supplied wood . . . — — Map (db m15892) HM
On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended, Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz, and two other armed veterans of Co. D, 7th Virginia Cavalry, en route to obtain their paroles, robbed six Federal cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock. . . . — — Map (db m15902) HM
Rockingham County Area 876 square miles
Formed in 1778 from Augusta, and named for the Marquis of Rockingham, British Statesman. John Sevier, of Tennessee, was born in this county. In it took place the battles of Cross Keys . . . — — Map (db m234636) HM
Shenandoah
Historic District
has been registered as a
Virginia
Historic
Landmark
pursuant to the authority vested in the
Virginia Board of Historic Resources
• • •
Shenandoah Historic
District
has been . . . — — Map (db m236751) HM
In 1836, brothers Daniel and Henry Forrer, in partnership with Samuel Gibbons, purchased land here for an ironworks and built a cold-blast furnace, called Furnace #1. Some 6,249 acres provided trees for charcoal, quarries and mines for limestone and . . . — — Map (db m16641) HM
In memory of these men from the Shenandoah Iron Works District who paid the supreme sacrifice during World War I, World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam
Ray W Biedler •
William C Burwell •
Jesse W Campbell Jr •
Avis O Comer •
Ervin E Comer • . . . — — Map (db m236675) WM
This park is dedicated to these men of the
Shenandoah Iron Works District
who paid the supreme sacrifice during
World Wars I and II
William C. Burwell •
Ray W. Biedler •
Stewart Comer •
Avis O. Comer •
Ervin E. Comer • . . . — — Map (db m236611) WM
Early in May 1862, Gen. Stonewall Jackson moved most of his army east over the Blue Ridge toward Charlottesville, leaving Gen. Richard S. Ewell's division at Conrad's Store (present day Elkton) to hold the Federals in the Shenandoah Valley. The . . . — — Map (db m12086) HM
Nearly a month after the battle of Kernstown, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's command had worked its way south "up" the Valley to join Gen. Richard S. Ewell's division near Conrad's Store (Elkton). To secure this haven for reorganization, on . . . — — Map (db m12085) HM
The Stevens Cottage, located ¼ mile west, was built in 1890 to house the offices of the Shenandoah Land and Improvement Company. This restored post bellum building was designed by William M. Poindexter, in the shingle style of the Edwardian Period. . . . — — Map (db m86243) HM
Dedicated July 6th, 1950
Thank you for protecting us and keeping our Country safe, for your sacrifice has given us the privilege to play. — — Map (db m236621) WM
Donated to the Town of Shenandoah on October 29, 1934 by the American Legion, Stewart Comer Post No. 106
The gun measures 25 feet in length and weighs 7,420 pounds — — Map (db m236715) HM
