The history of the Revolution can be felt everywhere in Virginia, from the mountains to the beaches. Learn about the American Revolution and Independence and how Virginia helped shape our nation at these attractions and museums.

 




 

John Hite HouseJohn Hite House
Frederick County

The Springdale property, in the vicinity of Bartonsville in Frederick County, was originally the home of Jost Hite, the earliest European settler in the lower Shenandoah Valley. The ruins of what was probably Hite's home and tavern, built in the 1730... Read More

Old Forge Farm/ZaneOld Forge Farm/Zane's Furnace
Frederick County

Old Forge Farm is the site of Isaac Zane's late-18th-century ironworks, the largest industrial operation in the Shenandoah Valley, which employed more than 100 persons to cast and forge pots, stoves, firebacks, and bar iron. During the American Revol... Read More

Willa Cather BirthplaceWilla Cather Birthplace
Frederick County

Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. Seen as a regional writer for decades after her passing in 1947, critics have increasingly identified Cather as a canonical American writer, the ... Read More

 

 

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