by Waynesboro Heritage Foundation | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog
Ruth Swortzel Porter shares with us the history of the German School just outside of Waynesboro in Augusta County. She is a descendant of the Hildebrands and her article is wonderfully researched. On July 25th 1823, seven leaders of the Mennonite community around...
by Waynesboro Heritage Foundation | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog
Now you can watch the new documentary by Alpha Vision Films, In This Land: The Camp Lyndhurst Saga from the comfort of home. Directed and produced by James Overton, we step back in time when German POW’s from World War II were kept at a camp in Lyndhurst,...
by Waynesboro Heritage Foundation | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog
Have you ever wondered while driving by or down Mule Academy Road in Fishersville how it got its name? Many years ago, a man living down the then dirt road in the hollow did indeed train mules to do many chores. They were an economic necessity and he had a thriving...
by Waynesboro Heritage Foundation | Jun 10, 2014 | Blog
During the long, hot afternoon of June 10, 1864, a column of Union cavalry under Brigadier General A. N. Duffie pushed southward along Back Creek searching for the gap through the ridge to the headwaters of the Tye River. (Today his path is State Route 814 through...
by Waynesboro Heritage Foundation | Mar 30, 2014 | Blog
At the time that it was built, 1890, the Brandon Hotel was in Basic City, not yet a part of Waynesboro. It opened on Thanksgiving Day to a grand feast and a brass band from Charlottesville. Two hundred people were invited and four hundred showed up. It was the...
