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Mt. Zion Methodist Church. . Inspired by visits from traveling preachers, African Americans organized what would become Mt. Zion United Methodist Church ca. 1867. The congregation acquired the framework of a former German Reformed Church in 1869, …
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Combining two of Virginia's oldest weekly newspapers. Shenandoah Valley Est. 1806 - Woodstock Herald Est. 1817.
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Born on this site, April 6, 1853, the son of John Gatewood, Publisher of the Shenandoah Herald, Charles
received his basic education in Woodstock and Harrisonburg, and was teaching school in Harrisonburg
when he received his appointment to the U…
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County seat of ShenandoahScene of Peter Muhlenburg's Famouscall to arms 1776Oldest Court House west of theBlue Ridge 1795First Clerk was Thomas Marshall,Father of Chief Justice John Marshall———Turn at Court House square and visit…
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The Mabel Lee Walton House at 225 N. Muhlenberg
Street is the national headquarters of Sigma Sigma
Sigma Sorority, founded in 1898 at the State
Female Normal School at Farmville (now Longwood
University). The Walton family built the house
in …
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The first Shenandoah County Jail was a log structure. The building shown here was built of native limestone in the 18th century. In 1906, it was demolished to make way for a brick jail, which served the county until it was replaced by the present …
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Shenandoah County's native limestone courthouse was built in 1795 with brick additions in 1871 and 1886. In 1927, portico and columns were added giving the Federal Styled building a Greek revival front. It is the oldest courthouse in continuous us…
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John Peter Gabriel MuhlenbergOctober 1, 1746 - October 1, 1807Clergyman, Soldier, StatesmanMajor General, VIII Virginia Regiment"A time to pray...a time to fight"January 23, 1776
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1864 Valley CampaignIn the midst of the 1864 Valley Campaign, Woodstock bore witness to the horrors of war. Plagued by raiding parties of Confederate partisan rangers, guerrillas and bushwhackers, Union General Philip H. Sheridan issued orders by …
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Is the oldest courthouse now in usewest of the Blue Ridge.A few rods southeast from herestood the churchin which Peter Muhlenburg preachedhis martial sermon and made his famouscall to arms in 1776.Thomas Marshall Sr. and Thomas Marshall Jr.,father…