Tour 11: Monterey to Goshen Pass, via Hot Springs
Tour 1: Northern Gateway
Tour 3: Middletown to Winchester
Tour 7: Edinburg to Mt. Jackson, via Singers Glen, New Market Tour 6: Woodstock to Lost City
Tour 2: Charles Town - Shepherdstown via Harpers Ferry
Tour 8: Harrisonburg to Port Republic
Tour 10: Staunton to Steeles Tavern
Tour 12: Lexington and Natural Bridge Tour 4: White Post to Berryville via Millwood
Tour 13: Fincastle to Buchanan
Tour 9: Fort Valley to Page Valley and Luray Tour 5: Strasburg to Front Royal, via Fort Valley
Welcome to the Shenandoah Valley. Although definitions vary, the Shenandoah Valley today is generally considered to run from the West Virginia counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, where the Shenandoah River joins the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, to points south of Lexington, Virginia.

Located at the Virginia Museum of the Civil War
I-81 Exit 264 in New Market, Va.



 


Things to do...

May 22--Theater performance at Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Va.

May 22-- Waynesboro Farmers Market in Waynesboro, Va.

May 23--Newtown Heritage Festival in Stephens City, Va.

May 23--Theater performance at Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Va.

May 23--Art exhibition at Barns of Rose Hill in Berryville, Va.

May 23--Magic Lantern Theater film in Winchester, Va.

May 23--Civil War history program in New Market, Va.

May 23--Play performance at Winchester Little Theater in Winchester, Va.

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Tour 1

Northern Gateway to the Shenandoah Valley: Orchards, Civil War, and an Old Railroad Station


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Tour 2

John Brown’s body, Civil War destruction, a view “worth a voyage across the Atlantic,” and a very early steamboat

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Tour 3

Log, limestone, and brick--a microcosm of early Valley architecture

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Tour 4

Clarke County, “The most English county in the Valley”

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Tour 5

Over the river and through the woods...

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Tour 6

Up and over Great North Mountain (not for the faint of heart)

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Tour 7

Ancient roads, old mills, a musical village, and mountain vistas

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Tour 8

Heart of the Shenandoah Valley

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Tour 9

A hidden valley, scenic drives, a rolling river, a dramatic cavern

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Tour 10

Historic homes, Shakespeare, a folk life museum, and an inventor’s farm

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Tour 11

Maple syrup, sheep, mineral spring baths, and no stop lights

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Tour 12

Jefferson’s stone bridge, an old canal, and two historic colleges

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Tour 12

Southern Gateway to the Shenandoah Valley: A preserved 1800s village, an abandoned canal, and two C&O railroad towns

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Valor of VMI cadets made the difference during the Battle of New Market

Thousands of Civil War reenactors are expected to take part in the 149th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of New Market, on May 18-19 at the Virginia Museum of the Civil War in New Market, Va. The event is the oldest battle reenactment in the nation, and one of few held on the original site.

The Saturday battle will be held at 2 p.m. on May 18 with a reenactment of the Second Battle of Winchester; the Sunday battle that begins on May 19 at 1:30 p.m. commemorates the famous battle that had been fought on what is now the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park.

The Battle of New Market played a significant role in Civil War history. Union General Ulysses S. Grant wanted to attack the Confederacy on several fronts, and one of them was in the Shenandoah Valley.

Grant directed General Franz Sigel to lead his troops up the Valley to Staunton. In response, Confederate General John C. Breckenridge formed a "scratch force" and among the them were student cadets from Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia.  Almost the entire corps of cadets made the 84-mile march from Lexington and only a few had dropped out along the way. The Union and Confederate troops met on the Bushong Farm at New Market on May 15, 1864.

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