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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
It is located at 6639 North Valley Pike (United States Route 11) north of Harrisonburg, Virginia. The property includes a series of caves that have long been a tourist attraction, including visits by soldiers of both sides during the American Civil War. It also includes a c. 1859 Greek Revival farmhouse, and numerous agricultural outbuildings ...
After the Civil War, the oyster harvesting industry exploded.In the 1880s, the Chesapeake Bay was the source of almost half of the world's supply of oysters. [4] New England fishermen encroached on the Bay after their local oyster beds had been exhausted, which prompted violent clashes with local fishermen from Maryland and Virginia. [4]
Chesapeake Western Railway terminal, Harrisonburg, VA. Chesapeake Western Railway Station (1913) is a brick building with two sections, the tow-story front section contains a passenger and office area while the one-story rear section was built for freight. Trim, belt courses, window sills, and lintels on the facade are made of Indiana limestone.
The years after the Civil War brought prosperity to Chincoteague with expansion of the oyster trade. As the law required an oysterman to be a Virginia resident for a year before harvesting in Virginia waters, many in that trade bought lots along Main Street, running along the west side of the island, or across the bay in the new village of ...
The Great Wicomico River is a 15.2-mile-long (24.5 km) [1] river in the U.S. state of Virginia, [2] [3] located approximately 60 miles (97 km) northeast of Richmond.In 1864, during the American Civil War, one of the torpedo boats of Admiral David Dixon Porter's fleet ran into the Great Wicomico River and was captured.
Isaiah Harrison is definitively shown at Oyster Bay on Long Island in 1687—this is the very same area from which his father Thomas had departed on his return to England forty years earlier. [45] Harrisonburg, VA marker notes founding by Thomas Harrison. The family of Richard Harrison lived just across Long Island Sound in New Haven ...
Map of Sewell's Point Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. As part of the Union blockade of Chesapeake Bay during the American Civil War, the Union gunboat USS Monticello, commanded by Captain Henry Eagle with Lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) Daniel L. Braine second in command, exchanged cannon fire with Confederate batteries on Sewell's Point ...