National Park Service
Marilyn W. Nickels, Ph.D. Study Director
John J. Knoerl, Ph.D., Chief, Cultural Resources Geographic
Information Systems Facility
Jean E. Travers, Historian, National
Park Service
David W. Lowe, Principal Research Historian / Report Author
National Conference of State Historic Preservation
Officers
Katie A. Ryan, GIS Specialist
John J. Packer, Tourism Consultant
Consulting Historians
Edwin C. Bearss, Chief Historian, National Park Service
Jeffry D. Wert, historian and author
This report was prepared under the overall direction of Lawrence E. Aten, Chief, Interagency
Resources Division, National Park Service,
U.S. Department of the Interior.
Acknowledgments
Of particular value to this study has been the work of Ms. Maral
Kalbian of the Frederick County Historical Society, who has been
conducting an architectural survey of Frederick, Clarke, and
Warren counties over the past several years. The extensive files
of the architectural survey were generously made available to
researchers for this study. These records are also filed at the
State Historic Preservation Office in Richmond. It is hoped that
this initial study will provide impetus for further research of
this nature to document more fully the historic resources of the
Valley.
Many people offered advice and assistance, and none should be
slighted although they cannot all be mentioned. We thank Edwin
C. Bearss and Jeffry Wert for their guidance and expertise in
serving as the study's consulting historians. Acknowledgement is
due Mr. Ben Ritter of Winchester's Handley Library, Mr. Roger
Delauter and Dr. Brandon Beck of the Shenandoah Valley Civil War
Foundation, Mr. Joseph Whitehorne of Lord Fairfax Community
College, Mr. Michael Gore of Belle Grove, Ms. Kristen Sanders of
the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation, Mr. Garland Hudgins of
Friends of the North Fork, Mr. Ed Merrell of New Market
Battlefield Park, Brothers James Sommers and Benedict Simmonds of
the Holy Cross Abbey at Cool Spring, Mr. Peter Svenson of Cross
Keys, Mr. A. Wilson Greene and Dr. Gary Gallagher of the
Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites, and Ms.
Nellie Flora and Mr. W. A. Shifflet, longtime advocates of
Piedmont battlefield. The assistance provided by Historian John
Salmon of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources is
particularly appreciated.
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