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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.
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]
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.
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.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, 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]
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It begins south of Waynesboro, Virginia, and flows northward to Port Republic, where it merges with the North River to form the South Fork. The river is 52.6 miles (84.7 km) long. The river is 52.6 miles (84.7 km) long.
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