Things To Do in Fishers Hill, Virginia

Inscription. 1864 Valley Campaign: You are standing behind the extreme left flank of Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early's thinly stretched infantry line. At 4 p.m. on September 22, 1864, the soldiers ... More on HMDB

Inscription. 1864 Valley Campaign: This is Fisher's Hill, the Shenandoah Valley's "Gibraltar" a commanding height that offered Confederate forces a superb defensive position. Confederate Gen. Jubal... More on HMDB

'Devil's Backbone State Forest' is a state forest located in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It lies on the slope of North Mountain in the drainage area of Cedar Creek near the town of Star Tannery west of Strasburg. The forest was ... More on Wikipedia

Inscription. Was fought on these bluffs, September 22, 1864, Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's 60,000 Federals, attacked Gen. Jubal A. Early's 18,000, Confederates. Through the advantage of, overwhelming n... More on HMDB

Inscription. Here Early's Adjutant-General, A. S. Pendleton, while attempting to check Sheridan's advance, was mortally wounded, September 22, 1864. , Erected 1930 by Conservation & Development Co... More on HMDB

Inscription. 1864 Valley Campaign: Here on Tumbling Run are the remains of the "Old Pike" stone bridge. The Valley Turnpike Company was chartered in 1838 as a joint-stock corporation. The turnpike followed the route of the Great Wagon ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Soon after the end of the Civil War, veterans on both sides began holding reunions to walk the familiar battlegrounds and renew friendships with former comrades. Here at Fisher's Hill, veterans of the battle fought on ... More on HMDB

Inscription. The Town Run is to your right. One source of the stream comes from a spring several blocks north at Hupp's Homestead. Bruce Hupp had his commercial watercress beds there. Often he boarded the train at Strasburg Depot ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Historic valley congregation, strasburg's, oldest, organized by German settlers (c.1747), who first worshiped in log building just west, of this site. Parish records date from 1769. Strasburg's first school conducted ... More on HMDB

Inscription. In the spring of 1862, U. S. Army Capt. Edward Hunt, an engineer, constructed a fortification on the hill where the Strasburg water tower now stands. Hunt selected the hill "because it had an effective command over the ... More on HMDB

Inscription. The earthworks on the hilltop to the southwest were constructed by General Banks in the campaign of 1862. , Erected 1927 by Conservation & Development Commission. (Marker Number A-24: ), , Location. 38° 59.537′ ... More on HMDB

Inscription. The stone house to the south is Fort Bowman, or Harmony Hall, built about 1753 for George Bowman who emigrated from Pennsylvania in 1731-1732. The house is an important example of the Pennsylvania German influence on ... More on HMDB