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New Market Historic District is a national historic district located at New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings in the crossroads town of New Market. It includes a variety of commercial, residential, and institutional buildings dating primarily from 19th century.
New Market is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States.Founded as a small crossroads trading town in the Shenandoah Valley, it has a population of 2,155 as of the most recent 2020 U.S. census.
Torrid Holdings Inc. is an American women's retail chain formerly owned by Hot Topic. While it is still owned by Sycamore Partners, owners of Hot Topic, in 2015, the company branched off to become Torrid, LLC. The store offers plus-size clothing and accessories for women size 10-30. Torrid began operations in April 2001. [2]
Virginia Museum of the Civil War. New Market Battlefield State Historical Park is a historic American Civil War battlefield and national historic district located near New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses the site of the Battle of New Market, a battle fought on May 15, 1864, during Valley Campaigns of 1864. In the ...
An 1864 county map of Virginia and West Virginia following their separation. Much as counties were subdivided as the population grew to maintain a government of a size and location both convenient and of citizens with common interests (at least to some degree), as Virginia grew, the portions that remained after the subdivision of Kentucky in ...
Newmarket, Newport News, Virginia, a neighborhood of Newport News Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
The battle is primarily remembered today for being the only time in American history a school's student body was used as an organized combat unit. [3] During the battle Confederate general John C. Breckinridge ordered cadets from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), some of them child soldiers no older than 15, to join an attack on the Union ...
The Commonwealth of Virginia frequently disputed the boundaries of the Fairfax Grant. In 1745, the Privy Council in London decided in favor of the 6th Lord Fairfax, designating that "the boundary of the petitioners land doth begin at the first spring of the South Branch of the River Rappahannack now called Rappidan[,] which first spring is the spring of that part of the said River Rappidan as ...