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The following is a list of mayors of the city of Winchester, Virginia, USA. Winchester is in Frederick County. ... Larry Omps, 1996-2004 [6] [5] Elizabeth Minor, ...
Location of Winchester in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Winchester, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Winchester, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
The Winchester Star is a daily newspaper (Monday-Friday) based in Winchester, Virginia covering the Shenandoah Valley area. History. On March 6, 2018, ...
Winchester National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Winchester in Frederick County, Virginia. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 4.9 acres (2.0 ha), and as of the end of 2005, it had 5,561 interments.
Its county seat is Winchester. [2] The county was formed in 1743 by the splitting of Orange County. It is Virginia's northernmost county. Frederick County is included in the Winchester, VA-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area.
The Third Battle of Winchester or Battle of Opequon, was fought in Winchester, Virginia, on September 19, 1864, during the Valley Campaigns of 1864 in the American Civil War. Fourteen Union Army enlisted men and one officer were awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the battle.
Phillip & John Alexander, brothers and area plantation owners 155,230: 15 sq mi (39 km 2) Bristol: 520: N/A: 1890 [13] From Washington County [13] Bristol, England 16,807: 12 sq mi (31 km 2) Buena Vista: 530: N/A: 1892 [13] From Rockbridge County [13] from the Buena Vista Company, which founded an iron mine in the area and established the town ...
An 1856 oil painting of Winchester by Edward Beyer Map of Winchester, Virginia, and the surrounding Frederick County (Winchester is independent of the county but is the county seat). Winchester is located at 39°10′41″N 78°10′01″W / 39.178°N 78.167°W / 39.178; -78