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2 unusual facts about Singers Glen


Singers Glen, Virginia

Thanks to Joseph Funk it is the birthplace of gospel music in the south.

Joseph Funk founded the first Mennonite printing house in the United States here in 1847, best known for printing the Harmonia Sacra.


Aldine Silliman Kieffer

With Ruebush and John W. Howe, Kieffer founded the Kieffer, Ruebush, & Company music company circa 1873, which was moved from Singers Glen to Dayton in 1878.


see also

Funk House

Joseph Funk House, Singers Glen, Virginia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County