Established in 2007
PO Box 141
New Market, VA 22844

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The New Market Historical Society, Inc encourages the discovery and preservation of historical homes, buildings and other significant sites along with pictures, documents related to the New Market area.

The Town of New Market has been listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places since 1972. There are 40 pre-Civil War buildings in the town.

The New Market Historical Society meets at 7.30 pm the fourth Thursday of January, March, May, July and September as well as the third Thursday in November at the New Market Town Council Chambers on John Sevier Rd in New Market.with the exception of the Annual Dinner which is held in January. See the Program for details of the meeting place and time.

Speakers discuss topics of local historical interest and refreshments are provided.

Our Next Meeting, Thursday May 24 at 7.30 pm

 “Jackson's Valley Campaign: Speed and Deception Vs. Overwhelming Odds - Greg Bair, Avid Civil War Enthusiast

Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign in April and May 1862 kept Union forces from reinforcing McClellan at the Peninsula Campaign.  Jackson and the fast-moving infantrymen he called his "foot cavalry" ranged up and down the Shenandoah Valley in northern Virginia, despite the best efforts of three Federal commanders, John Charles Fremont, Nathaniel Banks and Irvin McDowell, to stop him.  Banks lost so many supplies to Jackson's lightning raiders that Confederates took to calling him "Commissary Banks."  Military officers from many countries have come to the valley to study how Jackson tied up so many troops with so few forces.

We meet in the New Market Town Hall at 9418 John Sevier Street, New Market

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Last updated, April 19, 2012

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Bethlehem Stone Church photo by Donna J Neary

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• For more information contact Caroll Douglas at nmhs@newmarkethistoricalsociety.org

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