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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. Burtner Home.

  2. LOCATION:

    3. Northeast end of town on the west side of Warm Springs and Harrisonburg Pike #42, Dayton, Virginia.

  3. DATE:

    4. Unknown.

  4. OWNERS:
  1. DESCRIPTION:

    2. The interior is of old time design, with mantels and fireplaces. It is built of stone with hipped roof and was remodeled about 1925 by the present owner.

    See form #3686, attached.

  2. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    3. Stonewall Jackson is said to have stopped here. It was used as a stone fort during the War Between the States and the white man used it for protection from the Indians.

  3. ART:
  4. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants: Mr. Johnson Burtner, Dayton, Virginia.

Professor J.H. Ruebush, Historian, Dayton, Virginia.

A History of Rockingham County by J. W. Wayland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 19th, 1936 Miles E. Snyder

Harrisonburg, VA