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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. Colonel Armstrong Home.

  2. LOCATION:

    3. East side of Main Street, Bridgewater, Virginia.

  3. DATE:

    4. 1835-1840, approximately.

  4. OWNERS:

    5. Owned by Colonel Armstrong, then by Widow Brown, daughter-in-law, and now by Mrs. Henry Marsh, niece of the widow Brown.

  5. DESCRIPTION:

    6. See form 3686, attached.

  6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    7. Colonel Armstrong killed his neighbor, _________Shank, in front of his home. This was during the War Between the States. There was a "mock trial" and Armstrong received a very light punishment.

  7. ART:
  8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants: Messrs. Richcreek and Bricker.

Court Records of Rockingham County, at Harrisonburg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 23, 1937 W.A. Byerly

Bridgewater, VA