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March 16, 2005 [2] The Massanetta Springs Historic District is a retreat in Rockingham County, Virginia, administered by the Presbyterian Synod of the Mid-Atlantic, and chiefly associated with the Massanetta Springs Summer Bible Conference Encampment. The district includes the Hotel (1910), Hudson Auditorium (1922) and Camp Massanetta (1955–56).
Added to NRHP. September 8, 1980. Designated VLR. July 18, 1978 [2] Port Republic Historic District is a national historic district located at Port Republic, Rockingham County, Virginia. The district encompasses 45 contributing buildings and 62 contributing sites in the village of Port Republic. The district includes a number of archaeological ...
Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 83,757. [ 1 ] Its county seat is the independent city of Harrisonburg. [ 2 ] Along with Harrisonburg, Rockingham County forms the Harrisonburg, VA, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also home of the Rockingham County Baseball League.
1,002 [1] 816 [1] The Battle of Port Republic was fought on June 9, 1862, in Rockingham County, Virginia, as part of Confederate Army Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson 's campaign through the Shenandoah Valley during the American Civil War. Port Republic was a fierce contest between two equally determined foes and was the most costly ...
Adam Miller. Adam Miller Monument, Elk Run Cemetery, Elkton, VA. With residency beginning in 1727, Adam Miller (Mueller) is recognized as the first permanent white settler in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, US. [1][2][3][4] Born in 1703 in Schriesheim, Germany, Miller immigrated to America as a young married man, settling in Lancaster County ...
Dayton Historic District (Dayton, Virginia) / 38.41611°N 78.94083°W / 38.41611; -78.94083. Dayton Historic District is a national historic district located at Dayton, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA. The district encompasses 154 contributing buildings and one contributing site in the central business district and surrounding ...
Mordecai was the first child of Abraham Lincoln (1744–1786) and Bathsheba Herring (c. 1742 –1836); he was born in 1771 in Augusta County (now Rockingham County, Virginia). Abraham had been given 210 acres of prime Virginian land from his father, John Lincoln, and later sold the land to move in 1782 to western Virginia (now Kentucky). He ...
Designated VLR. August 15, 1972 [2] Lincoln Homestead and Cemetery, also known as the Jacob Lincoln House, is a historic home and cemetery located near Broadway, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was built in two sections. The main section was built about 1800, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick structure with a side-gable roof.