Articles and Essays
of Historical, Genealogical or Unusual Nature



  • A Little Mystery, An 1890's tale of murder

  • The Battle of Cedar Creek -- the Beginning of the End, the battle in the Valley sparks the Confederacy's death spiral

  • Clinedinst Carriages, New Market, Virginia

  • Cooper, Captain Leonard - Family History Papers

  • Davy Getz, Casualty of War, A tragic tale of the War Between the States

  • Destructive Fire in New Market; Aunt Jenny Thomas Incinerated

  • The Five Sons of John Jacob and Lydia Bushong Knupp of the Moores Store Area

  • The Flood of 1870, One of the worst disasters in the written history of the Valley

  • Henkel & Co. Printers, New Market, Virginia

  • Isaac and the General, Fictional story of a boy's meeting with Stonewall Jackson

  • Massanutten County, From the Free Press, 28 Feb 1889

  • One Man's Children - An article about the descendants of one man's descendants in the Shenandoah Valley

  • Origins of the "Scotch-Irish", Who were they?

  • Rattle-snakes Killed, undated newspaper article

  • Rules From 1794, a glimpse of the past

  • Shenandoah Roots, Move over, Alex Haley

  • St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Strasburg, a brief history

  • The Strange Case of the Missing Families in Shenandoah County, Virginia, a census mystery solved

  • The Valley Turnpike, a short history

  • The Valley's Palatine Pioneers, who were they, where did they come from and why?

  • What's a Huguenot?

  • White Dove and the Virginia Caverns, Tale of the early settlers in the Valley

  • Why Do We Do This to Ourselves, Why do we do this to ourselves?



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