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By: John W. Wayland, Pub. 1907, reprinted 2023, 324 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-168-5. The Shenandoah Valley comprises the Virginia counties of Augusta, Clarke, Frederick, Page, Rockingham, Shenandoah and Warren along with the West Virginia Counties of Berkeley and Jefferson. These German immigrants came mostly from the mid-Atlantic states of Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. This book is similar to oth...

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A collection of real history stories, simple enough for little children, that can be read to children early on, and later read by the child himself. The subjects have been chosen mainly from the history of the United States, but a few Old World stories have been included. The characters are few and distinct: there are women as well as men, girls as well as boys, in a variety of settings. A large number of these little stories have been especia...

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This valley includes the counties of Augusta, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Page, Warren, Frederick, and Clarke of VA, and the counties of Berkeley, and Jefferson of WV. The majority of Germans immigrants came to the valley from MD and PA prior to 1800, with a

Excerpt from Joseph Funk: Father of Song in Northern VirginiaThe old log loom house, alias schoolhouse, alias printing house, has had all the subsidiary structures removed, and now again at the last, as at the first, it stands by the spring alone. May it long be Spared - preserved - as a relic Of bygone days, as a monument to a great man and a great work well done.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and c...

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Excerpt from A History of Virginia for Boys and GirlsAccordingly, an effort has been put forth to make the narrative concrete by presenting facts in connection with persons, places, and incidents. Geography, civics, and literature, in easy phases, are frequently woven in. Human and social values have been kept in mind from beginning to end.The author's sincere thanks are hereby tendered to all his friends, old pupils and others, who have gener...

Excerpt from A History of Rockingham County, VirginiaInasmuch as Rockingham is a great county, mine has been a great task. How well it has been performed, the intelligent reader must judge. No one more than the author will realize the lacks and deficiencies in the result, but he hopes and believes that all will at least credit him with a sincere purpose and an earnest effort. No opinion, however adverse, and no criticism, however sharp, can ta...

This volume is largely a sourcebook of genealogical and historical materials compiled from public records of the counties of Rockingham, Augusta, Greenbrier, Wythe, and Montgomery. Contents include Rockingham Marriages, 1795-1825, Rockingham Landowners, 1789, Augusta County Church Records, 1756-1844, Men in Service Against the Indians, 1774, Rockingham Militia, 1788, Early Settlers in East Rockingham, Extracts from Augusta Court Records, and R...

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The author traces the origin and development of the county, describing its formation and settlement (probably three-quarters of its early settlers were of German extraction), its subsequent growth, the citizens, towns and villages, churches, schools, landmarks, businesses and industries. Much genealogical information is included. There is, for example, a chapter on heads of families in 1785 (about 1, 500 named), there are lists of militiamen a...

Excerpt from A History of Rockingham County, Virginia Inasmuch as Rockingham is a great county, mine has been a great task. How well it has been performed, the intelligent reader must judge. No one more than the author will realize the lacks and deficiencies in the result, but he hopes and believes that all will at least credit him with a sincere purpose and an earnest effort. No opinion, however adverse, and no criticism, however sharp, can ...