Harrisonburg Rockingham Historical Society


Harrisonburg - Rockingham County Historical Society
2008 Calendar of Events

Spring 2008 Lecture Series

All regular programs are held at the Harrisonburg-Rockingham HistoricalSociety in Dayton at 7:00 p.m.

Contact Mary Nelson or Richard Martin at the
Heritage Center in Dayton (540-879-2616) for more information.

May 8, 2008 @ 7pm

Speaker: Ann L. Miller, Senior Research Historian, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA,
Chair, Virginia Historic Structures Task Group

Topic:  Development of County Road Systems and Their Impact on Early Settlement

Ms. Miller will provide an historical overview of early roads &  transportation in the Shenandoah Valley, including the development of county road systems and their contribution to early settlement and
migration. Her presentation will incorporate information from the earliest road order books of Orange, Augusta, and Frederick Counties.

Other events

April 21, 2008 (Saturday) 11 - 4pm

The 18th annual BROCKS GAP HERITAGE DAY will be held at Fulks Run Elementary

School, Fulks Run, on Saturday, April 19, 2008, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Part history day, part community reunion, Heritage Day celebrates our family roots in the Brocks Gap part of Rockingham County.  Over 130 different photo displays of old photographs highlight families, everyday life and activities, churches, and schools of the area will be shown.

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* The lectures generally take place at 7:00 pm in the Margaret Grattan Weaver Lecture Hall in at the Shenandoah Valley Folk Art and Heritage Center in Dayton, Virginia unless otherwise stated. Directions are available online. Society members and the public are welcome. For more information, call the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society at 540-879-2616 or email heritage@heritagecenter.com.

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