Cheap Things To Do in Port Republic, Virginia

The Port Republic Museum is housed in a Federal style home, built in the 1830's for Benjamin Franklin Kemper. It is often referred to as the Turner Ashby House, for here the body of the Confederate... More on Virginia.org

Inscription. General Stonewall Jackson, with 6,000 Confederates, attacked James Shields' vanguard of 3,000 under E. B. Tyler, which had marched down Luray Valley to join General J. C. Frémont's ar... More on HMDB

Inscription. When Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswoods 1716 expedition first laid claim to the Shenandoah Valley, the area had already been used for centuries by Native Americans. The town of port Republic was laid off into lots ... More on HMDB

Inscription. During the Civil War, this battlefield contained some of the most productive farmland in the Shenandoah Valley and Virginia, as it does today. At the time of the battle, these fields w... More on HMDB

Inscription. Confederate Gen. Richard S. Ewell had five artillery batteries with him at Cross Keys. Four batteries and a 2-gun section (about 18 guns total) were massed on the ridgeline to your fro... More on HMDB

Inscription. On June 8, 1862, during the Battle of Cross keys, Gen. Isaac R. Trimbles Confederate brigade of a little more than 1,500 men occupied this line, a masked position behind a split-rail fence in what was then a wood line ... More on HMDB

Inscription. The road seen across the river was the original route into the village from the north and west. Early visitors crossed North River by means of a ford, later a ferry, and finally a bridge. After the Civil War, four more ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Parallel to South River is seen the bed of the lower millrace which brought water power to several village industries. The Galliday Tannery was located on the far left; the Dundore/Downs Tannery on the adjoining property ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Here, June 8, 1862, Gen. J. C. Fremont—pursuing Gen. T. J. “Stonewall” Jackson—was checked by Gen. R. S. Ewell with part of Jacksons army, which lay towards Port Republic. Federals engaged: 12,750, ... More on HMDB

Inscription. This church, Mill Creek Church of the Brethren, stands on the site of an antebellum house of worship that, during the Battle of Cross Keys on June 8, 1862, was used as a hospital. Amputated arms and legs were dropped ... More on HMDB

Inscription. George Caleb Bingham, a renowned American genre painter of the 19th century, was born in a frame house just north of here on 20 March 1811. Bingham moved to Missouri in 1819, where he began painting portraits in the 1830s ... More on HMDB

This loop takes you along the crest of the Blue Ridge into the upper Moormans River watershed and back around to the high country. Ply the Appalachian Trail (AT) and savor some views before enterin... More on Trails

Great Loop for Summer Time, Would not sugest during cold weather after rai More on Trails