WINCHESTER -- A healthy crowd of history buffs -- including a few in period dress -- gathered at Abram's Delight Museum to help kick off the Shenandoah Valley Civil War Sesquicentennial on Saturday.
FRONT ROYAL -- Town and county officials have agreed to secure the fire-damaged McKay House so that authorities can search the remains to determine if anyone was in the structure when it burned.
MIDDLETOWN -- The Town Council is considering a request by the Garland-Rodes camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to build a monument in town honoring Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early.
MIDDLETOWN -- It was a day 100 years in the making. Alumni, their friends and family gathered at what was once Middletown High School to celebrate the school's centennial.
MIDDLETOWN -- When Mildred Brumback attended Middletown Agricultural High School in 1941, she and her classmates could tell when the principal was coming.
WINCHESTER -- With the city's blessing in hand, Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. is moving forward with plans to transform the singer's former home into a museum.
FRONT ROYAL -- He didn't earn a living as an educator. And he didn't have the notoriety of Civil Rights leaders and icons such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.
CLEAR BROOK -- 'Tis a gift to be simple, as the Quaker hymn goes. That simplicity for the Quaker group in the valley has helped keep it going for 275 years.
FRONT ROYAL -- Some members of the Town Council are concerned that a vote to have the Planning Commission review historic district overlay code sections may be an attempt to dissolve the designated areas.
WOODSTOCK -- People from all over Shenandoah County and those with roots here came together to celebrate the county's -- and their families' -- history on Saturday.
MIDDLETOWN -- Cedar Creek Battlefield has again been ranked among the most endangered Civil War sites in the country in a report released Wednesday by a national preservation group.
The Civil War Preservation Trust will release its annual report on the nation's most endangered Civil War battlefields March 18, according to a press release.