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A series of conflicts between settlers and Native Americans, including the French and Indian War, the Cherokee War, and Pontiac's War, occurred along the western frontier of the colonies. The last documented clash in the Shenandoah Valley took pla…
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In 1850, George P. Grandstaff announced the opening of the large water-powered grist mill here nearly two years after construction began. This large facility competed with the Whissen Mill also on Stony Creek nearer the center of Edinburg. These t…
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On March 28, 1862, just 2 days after his appointment to serve as cartographer on the staff of Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Jedediah Hotchkiss reported the Valley Army's position at Narrow Passage Creek (four miles north of here) to be "unfa…
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During Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's 1862 Valley campaign, Confederate Col. Turner Ashby's cavalry and Chew's Battery halted Union Maj Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's steady advance southward. Ashby engaged Union forces 28 times in April alo…
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March 26, 1862: "In the morning our battalion was ordered back to Narrow Passage, ? near the rest of the army. Hd. Qrs. were established at Miss Stover's, in the stone house, near Narrow Passage Creek. Soon after we reached camp, Gen. Jackson sent…
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