Summary: | Stickley Mill Ruins, near Strasburg, Virginia, circa 1941-1970. Caption reads: "Stickley Mill Ruins. Midway between Middletown and Strasburg, Va., along Cedar Creek and the Shenandoah Valley Pike are two stone mill ruins. The smaller mill was operated when it had but two competitors in the Lower Shenandoah Valley. The larger was burned in October, 1864, when over 100 mills and 2,000 barns and contents were destroyed and 15,000 domestic animals driven from the region by Union forces. This drastic action was to prevent the 'Granary of the Confederacy' from maintaining another army, and General Sheridan boasted that a crow would have to carry his knapsack to cross the valley." |
Provider: | Shenandoah Publishing House |
Triangle Kards |
Century: | 1901-2000 |
Place of origin – Continent: | North America |
Place of origin – Country: | United States of America |
Place of origin – Region: | Virginia |
Place of origin – Settlement: | Strasburg |
Temporal subject: |
1941-1950
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1951-1960
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1961-1970
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Geographical subject – Continent: | North America |
Geographical subject – Country: | United States of America |
Geographical subject – Region: | Virginia |
Geographical subject – Settlement: | Strasburg |
Topical subjects: | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 |
Battlefields |
Mills |
War destruction & pillage |
Ruins |
Genre: | Postcards |
ArchivesUM location: | Institute of American Deltiology postcard collection |
Repository: | National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection |
Browse terms: | Architecture, Landscape, Historic Places |
War, Military |
Collection: | National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection |
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