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3 unusual facts about Rockbridge County


Rockbridge County, Virginia

The first court session in Rockbridge County was held at the home of Samuel Wallace on April 7, 1778.

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Rockbridge County was named for Natural Bridge, a notable landmark in the southern portion of the county.


Cyrus McCormick Farm

The farm is near Steele's Tavern, Virginia and Raphine, Virginia, close to the northern border of Rockbridge County, Virginia and Augusta County, Virginia, and is currently a museum run by the Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station of Virginia Tech.

George Mercer Brooke, Jr.

Colonel George Mercer Brooke Jr. was also President of the Stonewall Jackson (Jackson had been an educator at VMI) Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, member and officer of the Rockbridge County, Virginia Historical Society, and chairman of the VMI Sesquicentennial Committee.

Kelly Evans

Evans born in Hartford, Connecticut, and raised in Lexington, Virginia, Rockbridge County near the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Randall T. Ruble

He was born in Augusta County, Virginia, was educated in the public schools of Rockbridge County, Virginia, and graduated from high school in Collingdale, Pennsylvania.


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Leander J. McCormick

He was the fourth of five sons and was raised at the family homestead known as Walnut Grove, near Raphine in Rockbridge County, in the Shenandoah Valley on the western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.