Things To Do in Toms Brook, Virginia

Inscription. Here Early's Cavalry under Rosser and Lomax was driven back by Sheridan's cavalry under Torbert, October 9, 1864. , Erected 1927 by Conservation & Development Commission. (Marker Number A-25: ), , Location. 38° ... More on HMDB

Civil War History Comes Alive at Tom's Brook, South of Strasburg and West of the Old Valley Pike (US11) in this small community of Fisher's Hill. Here on September 22, 1864, Federal forces, under the command of Major General Philip ... More on Virginia.org

The Battle of Fisher?s Hill was an excellent example of a surprise flanking movement against a defending force in a strong position. The battle opened the Shenandoah Valley to the destruction of its agricultural base. Following his ... More on Virginia.org

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

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