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.

511: I-64W at MM 102

Description:On I-64 West at mile marker 102 in Albemarle County, congestion. Traffic backups are approximately 2 miles.Last updated:Thu 05/23/2013 2:34 PM EDT



 


Things to do...

May 23--Bingo games at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, 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.

May 24--Horse shows at Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, Va.

May 24--Shenandoah National Park 2013 season opening dates

May 24--Theater performance at Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Va.

May 24--Vermont Monument Tour at Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park, 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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Josephine School Community Museum recalls African American history in Clarke County, Va.

Josephine School Community Museum.African Americans share roots among other cultural groups who settled the Shenandoah Valley. Unlike the other groups, of course, nearly all African Americans were brought to this part of Virginia against their will. Just outside Berryville, Va., the Josephine School Community Museum commemorates the journey of a tiny, but not forgotten village from its founding by former slaves to the 1960s Civil Rights and school desegregation era.

While some historians have observed that slavery may not have been very popular in parts of the Shenandoah Valley, slave labor was a fact of life on 18th and 19th century plantation farms. After the American Civil War, many former slaves and freed people who lived in the Valley would realize how important both community and education would be for the betterment of their new lives.

One such group purchased land from one of the plantation-farm owners in the late 1800s and formed their own, segregated community just outside the town of Berryville, Va., in Clarke County. Josephine City had its own stores, churches, and one school, according to Josephine School Community Museum volunteer member, Dorothy Davis.  And because at that time, the citizens of Josephine City were not very welcome in Berryville, she says, the community became self-sustaining and very cohesive.

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