Featured Building

Established in 2007
PO Box 141
New Market, VA 22844


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		The Spitzer-Rupp House, 9295 N. Congress Street

	This home is built on Lot 42 of the original town lots, mapped out by Colonel Jacob Rinker in 1785 and extended after 1786. The 1/2 acre lot was divided into two 1/4 acre lots and this home is built on the northern half. It was sold by Abraham Savage to William Menefee in 1804, Deed Book O, page 103, Shenandoah County Records


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	9386 Congress Street, New Market Currently operated as the Congress Street Publik House, Formerly the Lee-Jackson Hotel

		History One of the first lots sold when Peter Palsel had the town of New Market laid out in 1783. Deed Book E p 269, dated 25 April 1785.Peter Palsel to Reuben Moore ₤200 …one certain lot or half acre situate lying and being in the Town of Newmarket in the County of Shenando which said lot is known as and distinguished by number Thirty two as by a plan of the said Town surveyed and made by Mr Jacob Rinker may more fully appear


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