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  2. Battle of Port Republic - Wikipedia

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    The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved 947 acres (3.83 km 2) of the Port Republic battlefield in seven transactions since 1988. [10] The battlefield is located about three miles east of Port Republic at U.S. Route 340 and Ore Bank Road. It retains its wartime agrarian ...

  3. Port Republic Historic District (Port Republic, Virginia)

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    Most of the buildings remaining now postdate the town's river port days, but many of these are late 19th-or early 20th-century replacements for buildings destroyed in the disastrous floods of the 1870s and 1880s. The village was at the center of the Battle of Port Republic which took place in June 1862. [3]

  4. Civil War Discovery Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails.

  5. Port Republic Road Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Port Republic Road Historic District is a national historic district in Waynesboro, Virginia.In 2002, it included 83 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area, plus one other contributing structure and one contributing site, a foundation.

  6. Battle of Cross Keys - Wikipedia

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    The hamlet of Port Republic, Virginia, lies on a neck of land between the North and South Rivers, which conjoin to form the South Fork Shenandoah River.On June 6–7, 1862, Jackson's army, numbering about 16,000, bivouacked north of Port Republic, Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's division along the banks of Mill Creek near Goods Mill, and Brig. Gen. Charles S. Winder's division on the north bank ...

  7. Pacific coast theater of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    This map depicting forts and navigation routes on the west coast was commissioned in 1858 by then U.S. Secretary of War and future C.S. President Jefferson Davis. The Pacific coast theater of the American Civil War consists of major military operations in the United States on the Pacific Ocean and in the states and Territories west of the Continental Divide.

  8. Port Republic, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Port Republic was chartered as a town in 1802, at the confluence of the South River and the North River, which join to form the South Fork of the Shenandoah River. This point was the head of navigation on this branch of the Shenandoah , [ 1 ] and influenced the town's commercial and strategic importance.

  9. Virginia State Route 253 - Wikipedia

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    In 1930, the state highway was relocated to the east side of the South River from Grottoes to Port Republic along South River Road (now SR 825). [6] SR 809 was not paved along Port Republic Road until 1932. [7] As of 1932, the remainder of Port Republic Road followed highways maintained by the city of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.