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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 ...
SR 253 (Port Republic Road) Goods Mill Road Lynnwood Road Ore Bank Road SR 663 (Browns Gap Road) Gap between segments ending at different points along SR 655: Scott [31] 0.82 1.32 SR 614: Unnamed road SR 224 (Wadlow Gap Road) Shenandoah [32] 3.61 5.81 SR 706 (Stout Road) Unnamed road Bethel Church Road Unnamed road Dead End
The highway heads northeast as two-lane undivided Keezletown Road, which also continues south from SR 256 as SR 750. SR 276 crosses the Augusta–Rockingham county line at the North River and continues as Cross Keys Road. Just north of the village of Cross Keys, the state highway intersects SR 253 (Port Republic Road).
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 ...
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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.
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.
SR 695 (Sugar Loaf Road) Bath [8] 0.30 0.48 SR 633: Cabin Draft Road Dead End Bedford [9] 6.30 10.14 SR 668 (Crockett Road) White Road Elk Valley Road Dead End Bland [10] 0.55 0.89 Dead End Quarry Drive US 52 (Clear Fork Creek Highway) Botetourt [11] 5.90 9.50 SR 600 (Breckinridge Mill Road) Haymakertown Road Country Club Road US 220 (Roanoke Road)