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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAUZ_mauck-meeting-house_Luray-VA.html
Built for religious purposes by the "Neighbors", mainly Mennonites from Switzerland and southern Germany.
The outside of the one log walls were covered in 1851 with white weatherboards and the structure was roofed with chestnut shingles. A cent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAUY_calendine_Luray-VA.html
Calendine was built in the early 1850s by Townsend Young. The adjacent one story building served as a general store and stage stop on the Sperryville-New Market turnpike. The store was also a social gathering place for exchange of news and gossip.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAUX_shenandoah-iron-works_Shenandoah-VA.html
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 a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAQG_confederate-heroes-monument_Luray-VA.html
(Left Side):Would it not be a blame for usif their memories partfrom our land & heartand a wrong to them & a shame for usthe glories they won shall not wane for usin legend & layour heroes in grayshall forever live over again for us.Ryan(Back):To …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAQF_jacksons-2nd-corps-established_Stanley-VA.html
Having remained with his commandin the vicinity of Winchester since theBattle of Sharpsburg/Antietam, byNovember 22, 1862, Gen. Thomas J."Stonewall" Jackson was again onthe march. With more than 32,000soldiers, Jackson's force made itsway up the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMACU_execution-of-summers-and-koontz_Shenandoah-VA.html
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.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMACO_graves-chapel_Stanley-VA.html
On November 24, 1862, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson moved through Page County toward Fisher's Gap to rejoin the main body of the Army of Northern Virginia, then near Fredericksburg. Jackson was in command of the newly organized Second Corps, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMACN_catherine-furnace_Shenandoah-VA.html
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 woo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8KO_shenandoah-national-park_Luray-VA.html
Shenandoah National ParkShenandoah National Park was established in 1935 using lands donated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. The forest was once devastated by logging and farming, but has now returned, and covers more than 95 per cent of the Park…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8KJ_civilian-conservation-camp_Luray-VA.html
During the 1930's, CCC Camp NP-1, Company 334, Camp Dern was placed in the area across the Skyline Drive and 1/4 mile to the south.