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Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 83,757. [1] Its county seat is the independent city of Harrisonburg. [2] Along with Harrisonburg, Rockingham County forms the Harrisonburg, VA, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also home of the Rockingham County Baseball League .
With residency beginning in 1727, Adam Miller (Mueller) is recognized as the first permanent white settler in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, US. Born in 1703 in Schriesheim, Germany, Miller immigrated to America as a young married man, settling in Lancaster County, PA in 1724.
Website. Official website. Elkton (formerly Conrad's Store) is an incorporated town in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States. It is included in the Harrisonburg Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,941 at the 2020 census [ 5] and 2,762 at the 2010 census. Elkton was named for the Elk Run stream.
Pleasant Valley, Virginia. / 38.38472°N 78.89722°W / 38.38472; -78.89722. Pleasant Valley is an unincorporated community in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States.
Rockingham: Broadway: 1896 93 Smith Creek: One of the oldest covered bridges remaining in Virginia. Privately owned. Humpback: Alleghany: Covington: 1857 109 Dunlap Creek: The only arched covered bridge remaining in the United States. Jack's Creek: Patrick: Woolwine: 1914 48 Smith River: Only historic covered bridge remaining in Patrick County ...
May 14, 2014. The Melrose Caverns and Harrison Farmstead is a historic property in rural Rockingham County, Virginia. It is located at 6639 North Valley Pike ( United States Route 11) north of Harrisonburg, Virginia. The property includes a series of caves that have long been a tourist attraction, including visits by soldiers of both sides ...
The Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia and parts of West Virginia is home to a long-established German-American community dating to the 17th century. The earliest German settlers to Shenandoah, sometimes known as the Shenandoah Deitsch or the Valley Dutch, were Pennsylvania Dutch migrants who traveled from southeastern Pennsylvania.
The Harrisons who settled in the Shenandoah Valley in the 1730s came from New England and likely had common ancestry with the James River family, considered to have descended from Thomas Harrison (1619–1682). He led a parish at Elizabeth River at age 21, and was appointed by Governor William Berkeley as an acting chaplain of the Jamestown Colony.