Printer Friendly VersionGEORGE E. MAY PAPERS, SC #2055
CARRIER LIBRARY, JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Compiled by Orville Bame, October, 1988
SCOPE AND CONTENT
This collection consists of approximately 44 numbered chapters of a typescript, some of them erroneously enumerated, plus handwritten materials on the history of Port Republic, Virginia, written in the 1930's. The historical analysis begins with a portrait of the land and the Indians who inhabited it. It covers the establishment of the town and its growth. There is information on farming, boating, industry, schooling, and details on Stonewall Jackson's victory at the Battle of Port Republic. Port Republic citizens involved in wars up through World War I are discussed; there are also genealogical chapters on the Harper, Kemper, Harnsberger, Trout, Scott, Downs, and Madden families.
Deposited by the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society on May 27, 1987.
ORGANIZATION
Box 1
Folder 1, Chapters 1-7:
1. The Locality
2. Early Settlers
3. Laying out the Town
4. A Tragedy
5. Old Residenters
6. Farming
7. Boating
Folder 2, Chapters 8-12:
8. Industries
9. Lost Opportunities
10. Churches
11. Churches (Continued)
12. Churches (Continued)
Folder 3, Chapters 13-24:
13. Wars
14. Civil War--1861-1865
15. Wars (Continued)
16. Wars (Continued)
17. Wars (Continued)
18. Wars (Continued): Spanish American War (1898-1899)
19. Famous Fights
20. Post Office
21. Polls
22. Schools
23. Home Names
24. The Harper Family and Port Republic Bridges
Folder 4, Chapters 25-44:
25. Drownings at the Point; The Kemper Family
26. The Harnsberger Family
27. John Dundore
28. Missing chapter
29. Joseph Trout
30. Zacharia Raines (The "Commodore" of the Shenandoah)
31. Michael Amos Scott
32-34. Missing chapters
35. George W. Eustler
36. William S. Downs
37-39. Missing chapters
40. Thomas Madden
41. Cemetary
42-43. Missing chapters.
44. Bibles
Folder 5, Miscellaneous: Minutes of Methodist Meeting House 1830s; East Rockingham Magistrates; Civil War Soldier's Letter.
