Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove Plantation National Historic Landmark Nomination (Updated Documentation)
Gentry J, Vonesh S, Hessian C, LiPira N, Rentsch S, Smith D. 2024. Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove Plantation National Historic Landmark Nomination (Updated Documentation). National Historic Landmark Nominations. 69000243_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is updated National Historic Landmark (NHL) documentation for the Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove Plantation NHL in Frederick, Shenandoah, and Warren Counties, Virginia. The updated NHL nomination for the Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove Plantation NHL documents its national significance under NHL Criterion 1 for association with the Battle of Cedar Creek (October 19, 1864), a decisive engagement in the Civil War that established Union control of the Shenandoah Valley, and under Criteria 1 and 5 as a cultural landscape containing significant resources from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that collectively tell the story of the backcountry colonization and settlement of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The period of significance is 1771-1864.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Gentry, John; Vonesh, Sarah; Hessian, Carleigh; LiPira, Nancy; Rentsch, Shelley; Smith, Debby
- Date of Issue
- 2024-09-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CEBE
- Keywords
- agriculture, Civil War, colonization, cultural landscape, Frederick County, Middletown, military, National Historic Landmark, plantation, settlement, Shenandoah County, Shenandoah Valley, slavery, Virginia, Warren County