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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAUX_shenandoah-iron-works_Shenandoah-VA.html
In 1836, brothers Daniel and Henry Forrer, in partnership with Samuel Gibbons, purchased land here for an ironworks and built a cold-blast furnace, called Furnace #1. Some 6,249 acres provided trees for charcoal, quarries and mines for limestone a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMACU_execution-of-summers-and-koontz_Shenandoah-VA.html
On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended, Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz, and two other armed veterans of Co. D, 7th Virginia Cavalry, en route to obtain their paroles, robbed six Federal cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMACN_catherine-furnace_Shenandoah-VA.html
Built in 1846, Catherine Furnace was one of three Page County furnaces in operation during the Civil War. The 30-foot-tall main stack is nearly all that remains of the cold blast furnace and once-huge operation here, when 22,500 acres supplied woo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7SV_somerville-heights_Shenandoah-VA.html
Early in May 1862, Gen. Stonewall Jackson moved most of his army east over the Blue Ridge toward Charlottesville, leaving Gen. Richard S. Ewell's division at Conrad's Store (present day Elkton) to hold the Federals in the Shenandoah Valley. The Un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7SU_the-burning-of-red-bridge_Shenandoah-VA.html
Nearly a month after the battle of Kernstown, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's command had worked its way south "up" the Valley to join Gen. Richard S. Ewell's division near Conrad's Store (Elkton). To secure this haven for reorganization, on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7ST_the-stevens-cottage-1890_Shenandoah-VA.html
The Stevens Cottage, located ? mile west, was built in 1890 to house the offices of the Shenandoah Land and Improvement Company. This restored post bellum building was designed by William M. Poindexter, in the shingle style of the Edwardian Period…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7SS_history-of-verbena_Shenandoah-VA.html
Original Grant fromKing George III toCharles Cropson 1746.1783 Grant from BeverlyRandolf, Governor ofVirginia to Jacob Mire.1802 Jacob Mireto George Price.Original Mill Built 1803.Verbena Parkand present mill built byWm. E & H.C. Hisey 1935.Presen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7SO_shields-advance-retreat_Shenandoah-VA.html
Having successfully driven Gen. Nathaniel Bank's Union army from the Shenadoah Valley in late May 1862, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's "foot cavalry" had little time to reset. While one Union army under Gen. John C. Fr?mont was bearing down …