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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19RR_the-marl-creek-interpretive-trail_Raphine-VA.html
Agriculture has changed in the Shenandoah Valley since McCormick's day. Once known as the "breadbasket of the Confederacy" because of the amount of wheat grown here, the Valley grows very few small grains today. Much of the grain production moved …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19RP_cyrus-h-mccormick_Raphine-VA.html
Cyrus H. McCormick inventor of the reaper was born on this farm, Feb 15, 1809. Here he completed the first practical reaper in 1831
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUR8_brownsburg_Raphine-VA.html
The village of Brownsburg, established on23 November 1793, is an enduring example ofa mid- to late-19th-century Shenandoah Valleycommunity. By 1835 Brownsburg was a thriving commercial hub and was centrally locatedon the stagecoach line between St…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLFS_new-providence-church_Raphine-VA.html
This church, seven and a half miles west, was organized by John Blair in 1746. Five successive church buildings have been erected. The first pastor was John Brown. Samuel Brown, second pastor, had as wife Mary Moore, captured in youth by Indians a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFQL_virginia-inventors_Raphine-VA.html
A mile and a half northwest, Cyrus H. McCormick perfected, in 1831, the grain reaper. In that vicinity, in 1856, J. A. E. Gibbs devised the chainstitch sewing machine.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFQJ_rockbridge-county-augusta-county_Raphine-VA.html
Rockbridge CountyArea 616 Square MilesFormed in 1778 from Augusta and Botetourt, and named for the Natural Bridge. Samuel Houston and Cyrus H. McCormick were born in this county. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are buried in Lexington. Washing…