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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YJK_newtown-cemetery_Harrisonburg-VA.html
African Americans established the community of Newtown in this area after the Civil War, In 1869 five trustees purchased land here for a cemetery open to "all persons of color." By 1920 the cemetery had expanded three times to accommodate Harrison…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OEC_edgar-amos-love_Harrisonburg-VA.html
Edgar Amos Love, son of a Methodist minister,
was born in Harrisonburg in 189l. On 17 Nov.
19ll, while a student at Howard University, he
co-founded Omega Psi Phi, the first fraternity
established at a historically black college. The
organiza…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13RL_gen-turner-ashby_Harrisonburg-VA.html
was killed onthis spot,June 6, 1862,gallantly leadinga charge.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVCG_battle-of-cross-keys_Harrisonburg-VA.html
General R.S. Ewell with 8,000 soldiers of General Stonewall Jackson's army repulsed a Federal attacking column of 10,500 under General John C. Fr?mont. After initial success the Federals were checked by the fire of Confederate artillery. Attacks b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRSY_warren-sipe-house_Harrisonburg-VA.html
This was the home of Edward T.H. Warren, a Harrisonburg attorney. As a lieutenant in the Valley Guards, a Rockingham County militia company, Warren attended the trial and execution of John Brown in Charles Town (in present-day West Virginia) in 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRSX_hardesty-higgins-house_Harrisonburg-VA.html
This was the home of Harrisonburg's first mayor, Isaac Hardesty, an apothecary. Elected in 1849, Hardesty served until 1860. His Unionist sympathies compelled him to leave for Maryland after the Civil War began. Early in the first week of May 1862…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQZ8_the-battle-of-harrisonburg_Harrisonburg-VA.html
On wooded Chestnut Ridge the evening of Friday, June 6, 1862, Pennsylvania Bucktails under Col. Kane were defeated in a hard fight with the 58th Va. under Col. Letcher and Gen. Turner Ashby and the 1st Md. under Col. Bradley Johnson. Gen. Ashby ki…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQAY_woodbine-cemetery_Harrisonburg-VA.html
During the Civil War, Woodbine Cemetery was Harrisonburg's principal burial ground. Chartered in March 1850, it opened later that year after the city's first mayor, Isaac Hardesty, sold 2.5 acres of his property to the cemetery company. The need f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQAW_mcneills-rangers_Harrisonburg-VA.html
Harrisonburg is associated with the exploits of McNeill's Rangers, a famous Confederate partisan unit. In 1862, John Hanson McNeill, a native of Hardy County in present-day West Virginia, recruited men for Co. E, 18th Virginia Cavalry. With McNeil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQAV_confederate-general-hospital_Harrisonburg-VA.html
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 at the intersection of fo…