Confederate General Hospital

Harrisonburg Female Academy

Harrisonburg was Rockingham County’s seat of government and largest town, and it was an ideal site for a hospital. When the Civil War began in 1861, although the railroad had not yet extended to Harrisonburg, the town sat ...

Reuter House

Built in 1934 for Louis Reuter (1886-1945) and his wife, this house offered a spectacular view of the city. Reuter worked as a grocer in his native San Antonio until 1918, when he came to Austin to open a self-service ...

Here Lieth the Body of Sarah M. Crittenden

Wife of

Doct. John Crittenden

Who died 14th July 1835,

Aged 37.

She occupies the first

grave opened in this consecrated ground.

Leaving an affectionate

husband with six

weeping children.

Her infant Sarah M.

died on the 17th and lies

entombed in the 2nd grave

Aged 8 months and 17 days.

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This grave ...

Baskins Creek

As the story goes..."a party of hunters come up from Knoxville an' kilt 'em a load o' bear an' drug ‘em down to the head o' the creek an' skinned ‘em. They tuk the meat but lef' the skins 'till ...

Breneman-Turner Mill

Survivor of The Burning

On October 6, 1864, Union soldiers approached this mill on their march from Harrisonburg to Broadway during “The Burning.” This was U.S. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s two-week campaign to end the Valley’s role as the “Breadbasket of ...

The Middlebury Fire House

On this site in 1949 the volunteers of the Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department, using donated and salvaged materials, built a fire station on land donated by the Vaszauskas family.

Pictured are the original 1941 Ford LaFrance, 1947 International tanker and ...

James Madison University

The university was founded in 1908, through the efforts of state senator George B. Keezell, of Rockingham County, as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg. In 1924 it became the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg, before ...

Schooner Parallel “Blown to Atoms” 1887

The two-masted, 148-ton Parallel left San Francisco for Astoria, Oregon, with a mixed cargo & 42 tons of black powder & dynamite. Capt. W.C. Miller, fought against difficult winds for two days & finally gave up. The abandon-ship order ...

Grace United Methodist Church

In 1827 a Methodist Society was

formed in this community, then known

as Washington. On February 16, 1828,

representatives of the congregation

purchased a parcel of land for the purpose

of erecting “a house or place of worship”

for its ...

James Madison University

The university was founded in 1908, through the efforts of state senator George B. Keezell, of Rockingham County, as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg. In 1924 it became the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg, before ...