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This is shown on the 1751 Fry Jefferson map. [19] VA-7: Harry Byrd Highway: 2.9 miles (4.7 km) Opequon Creek Ford; Frederick County: Now bridged VA-7: Berryville Pike + National Ave + Piccadilly St: 5 miles (8.0 km) Winchester, Virginia (orig. Frederick Town, estab. 1738); at US-11, Cameron St—Historic junction of the Great Wagon Road
Designated VLR. April 17, 1979, December 4, 2002, June 19, 2008 [2] The Winchester Historic District is a national historic district located at Winchester, Virginia. The district encompasses 1,116 contributing buildings in Winchester. The buildings represent a variety of popular architectural styles including Late Victorian and Italianate.
February 14, 1978. The B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing is a 15-acre (6.1 ha) historic site where a set of railroad bridges, originally built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, span the Potomac River between Sandy Hook, Maryland and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 14 ...
Map of Winchester, Virginia, and the surrounding Frederick County (Winchester is independent of the county but is the county seat). Winchester is located at 39°10′41″N 78°10′01″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.3 square miles (24 km 2), virtually all land.
Potomac Heritage Trail. The Potomac Heritage Trail, also known as the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail or the PHT, is a designated National Scenic Trail corridor spanning parts of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States that will connect various trails and historic sites in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.
April 11, 1973. (#73002230) Parkview St. and Rouss Spring Rd. 39°10′10″N 78°09′38″W / 39.169306°N 78.160556°W / 39.169306; -78.160556 (Abram's Delight) Oldest house in Winchester, built by Simon Taylor in 1754, for Isaac Hollingsworth, the son of Abraham Hollingsworth, who arrived in 1728. [6] 2. Patsy Cline House.
October 15, 1966. Designated VLR. October 18, 1983 [4] The George Washington Birthplace National Monument is a national monument in Westmoreland County, Virginia, at the confluence of Popes Creek and the Potomac River. It commemorates the birthplace location of George Washington, a Founding Father and the first President of the United States ...
Winchester Medical College, Winchester, Virginia (detail) John Brown was the Union's hero and the Confederacy's villain in the Civil War. He died to end slavery. Union soldiers marched to John Brown's Body, which became the Battle Hymn of the Republic. It was the assassination of Lincoln that displaced Brown from the nation's consciousness.