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Abram’s Delight Museum

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Abram’s Delight Museum, Winchester’s oldest home and home of the Hollingsworth family, is a joy to tour. Visitors are treated to family heirlooms and original objects from the mid 18th and early 19th century in the home of one of Winchester’s most prominent families.

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Downtown Winchester

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Downtown Winchester provides the ideal local for small shops and restaurants, and serves as the county seat of Frederick County. Winchester Medical Center is, in the top 100 hospitals in the country, and the Medical School is the oldest in the US. Winchester also had the first public school, and was the home town of legendary country/pop music icon Patsy Cline.

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Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum

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The Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum exists is ignite creativity, spark curiosity and inspire learning in visitors of all ages by providing a rich variety of interactive, hands-on exhibits and programs that focus on the sciences and mathematics, the humanities, and the arts.

All exhibits, activities and experiences provided by the Discovery Museum adhere to the following philosophical guidelines:

Exhibits, activities and programs are interactive, participatory and informal, and give visitors opportunities to experiment, have fun playing, use their imaginations and share ideas.

Visitors are engaged at their own level of expertise and experience.Activities and programs are multi-sensory, authentic, honest, and factual.

Museum Hours: Monday – Saturday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Sunday 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

“First Friday” each month5:00 PM -7:30 PM

Admission: $6 per person

Children under age 2 are FREE

FREE for Members – Become a Discovery Museum Member

FREE admission on “First Friday” each month 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Location: 54 S. Loudoun Street, Winchester, Virginia 22601 Located on the Downtown Pedestrian Mall

Website: http://www.discoverymuseum.net/

Newtown History Center

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:11:32 +0000

The Newtown History Center offers museum exhibits and tours focusing on the people and events of Stephens City, Virginia’s long history. In addition to the exhibits located in the main museum, there also are interpretive displays in neighboring buildings that discuss the town’s wagon making industry and the architectural history of a late Colonial era structure known locally as the Stone House.

The Newtown History Center is more than a museum that tells the story of the ordinary people who lived and worked in an old Virginia wagon road town. It is a collecting institution with a mission to preserve, document and interpret the material culture and lore of the town of Stephens City and its environs. It is also a repository of documents and photographs relating to the history of the town, its inhabitants and their families. We serve tourists, school groups, research scholars, local patrons as well as professional genealogists and ordinary family history enthusiasts. If you have a question about the history of Stephens City, we can answer it.

Hours: Opens: 10:00 AM Closes: 4:00 PM

Admission Fee: $2.00

Telephone: Phone: (540) 869-1700

Website: www.newtownhistorycenter.org/

Godfrey Miller Home

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This historic home was purchased by John Miller in 1812 and continued in the Miller family until 1938 when Margaretta Sperry Miller donated the home to Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church to be used as a residence for elderly ladies. In 1948 Godfrey Miller Home Incorporated as a non-profit 501( c )(3) organization and opened as a residence for elderly ladies. After twenty years, the GMH petitioned the court to operate the Home as a Fellowship Center. In 1976 the Godfrey Miller Fellowship Center opened.

28 South Loudoun St. Winchester, VA 22601
Phone: (540) 667-5869

http://www.godfreymillerhome.org/

Long Branch

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:25:18 +0000

Located at the foot of the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains just sixty miles from Washington D.C., Historic Long Branch is one of the most historic elegant manor homes in Virginia hunt country. The grounds of Historic Long Branch are graced by beautiful gardens dedicated to Sheila Macqueen.

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Kernstown Battlefield

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:20:08 +0000

The Kernstown Battlefield contains the core areas of the First and Second Battles of Kernstown. Pre-Civil War structures such as Benner’s Tavern, the Pritchard House and the Opequon Presbyterian Church cemetery mark a landscape changed little since the Civil War.

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Ivy Lodge

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The historic 1819 Ivy Lodge building houses the museum of the Warren Heritage Society. Permanent and temporary exhibit halls show local history. Information on museum and society programming is available at Ivy Lodge, and the gift shop and bookstore offer unique items available nowhere else.

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Mount Hebron Cemetery Gatehouse

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Mount Hebron Cemetery adjoins four burying grounds within a common enclosure. In 1844, a charter was granted “to establish a public cemetery” on the grounds of the Reformed and Lutheran Churches. Named after Hebron, a city of refuge and burial for the Biblical Abraham, Mount Hebron Cemetery has been expanded to enclose fifty-six acres.

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Downtown Harpers Ferry

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Harpers Ferry is at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, as well as the states of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Visiting this quaint, historic community is like stepping into the past. Robert Harper he opened a ferry across the Potomac in 1761. The town was a hotspot for the Civil War because of the US Armory and Arsenal.

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