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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOWH_overall-bridge_Bentonville-VA.html
The metal truss bridge here at Overall, Page County Bridge No. 1990, is a historically innovative design. It was built in 1938 as part of a major realignment of present-day U.S. Route 340, then called State Route 12, between Luray and Front Royal,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOWF_the-historic-page-valley_Bentonville-VA.html
Laying within the larger Shenandoah Valley, the Page Valley is bounded on the east by the Blue Ridge and on the west by the Massanutten Mountain. The Page Valley's early European settlers were Pennsylvania Germans who brought their farming practic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOWE_battle-of-milford_Bentonville-VA.html
During the Civil War, Milford (present-day Overall) was a small commercial center on the Luray-Front Royal Turnpike. Located in a narrow valley between river and mountains, the village saw more than its share of military action. Confederate Gen. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMET_battle-of-front-royal_Front-Royal-VA.html
Confederate Army of 16,000 under General Stonewall Jackson overwhelmed a Federal outpost of 1,000 under Colonel John R. Kenly. The Confederates approached Front Royal undetected from southwest on the afternoon of May 23. Spy Belle Boyd gave the ad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLFJ_chester-gap_Front-Royal-VA.html
This mountain pass was of strategic importance throughout the Civil War. Union and Confederate forces occupied and traversed it on numerous occasions. The first significant use of the gap occurred July 7-18, 1862, as Gen. Nathaniel Bank's corps of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLEK_minding-the-gaps_Front-Royal-VA.html
(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8JP_indian-old-fields_Front-Royal-VA.html
Within the bends of the Shenandoah River below the Indians kept fields burned off as pastures for deer and bison. These fields were "old" to the first white settlers who prized the fertile bottomlands. Today the old fields are sites of modern farms.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8JL_the-massanutten_Front-Royal-VA.html
An unusual name for an unusual mountain. Totally isolated within the Shenandoah Valley, fifty-mile-long Massanutten Mountain begins and ends abruptly. From here you can see its north end. Called simply "The Massanutten," the mountain today is part…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7RV_recreational-center-of-front-royal_Front-Royal-VA.html
William E. Carson (1870-1942), the first chairman of Virginia State Commission on Conservation and Development, a local resident, spearheaded the development of the recreational center for use by the people and visitors of Front Royal and Warren C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM50W_execution-of-mosbys-rangers_Front-Royal-VA.html
"Mosby will hang ten of you for every one of us!"were William Thomas Overby's last words to hisexecutioners before the rope tightened around hisneck here on Richardson's Hill. This was thefinal scene of a tragedy that began less than two hours ear…