Cheap Things To Do in Woodstock, Virginia

The Woodstock Museum in Woodstock, VA, explores the history of the town and surrounding area. More on PlanetWare

Inscription. County seat of Shenandoah, Scene of Peter Muhlenburg's Famous, call to arms 1776, Oldest Court House west of the, Blue Ridge 1795, First Clerk was Thomas Marshall, Father of Chief Just... More on HMDB

The museum is housed in a circa 1772 cut limestone two storey home. It was said to have once been the temporary home of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Thomas Marshall, father of Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall. Displays include ... More on Virginia.org

18th Century Log Home with period furnishings, completely restored, a treasure amidst the busy Town of Woodstock! More on Virginia.org

Inscription. Is the oldest courthouse now in use, west of the blue ridge. A few rods southeast from here, stood the church, in which Peter Muhlenburg preached, his martial sermon and made his famous, call to arms in 1776. Thomas Marshall ... More on HMDB

In 1761, when George Washington sponsored an act in the House of Burgesses to charter the new village, the town was named Woodstock. Since 1772 it has been the County seat and currently has the oldest working courthouse west of the ... More on Virginia.org

The Woodstock Museum of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Inc. was founded in 1969 as a non-profit Virginia corporation with the purpose of stimulating interest in the early history of Woodstock and the... More on Woodstockmuseumva.org

The Town of Woodstock is located in Shenandoah County, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. Woodstock has been the county seat since Shenandoah County was formed in 1772. The limestone courthouse... More on Virginia.org

Inscription. 1864 Valley Campaign: In the midst of the 1864 Valley Campaign, Woodstock bore witness to the horrors of war. Plagued by raiding parties of Confederate partisan rangers, guerrillas and bushwhackers, Union General Philip ... More on HMDB

Inscription. During Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's 1862 Valley campaign, Confederate Col. Turner Ashby's cavalry and Chew's Battery halted Union Maj Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's steady advance southward. Ashby engaged Union ... More on HMDB

Inscription. In 1850, George P. Grandstaff announced the opening of the large water-powered grist mill here nearly two years after construction began. This large facility competed with the Whissen Mill also on Stony Creek nearer the ... More on HMDB

Inscription. On March 28, 1862, just 2 days after his appointment to serve as cartographer on the staff of Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Jedediah Hotchkiss reported the Valley Armys position at Narrow Passage Creek ... More on HMDB