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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. John Niswander Home.

  2. LOCATION:

    3. West Side of Main Street, Dayton, Virginia.

  3. DATE:

    4. 1835 to 1840.

  4. OWNERS:

    5. John Niswander was the builder and original owner. Then it was owned for twenty-five or thirty years by Aldine Kieffea, a pioneer music publisher, and now John Wenger.

  5. DESCRIPTION:

    6. This is a substantially built brick house on pre-war architectural plans.

    See form #3686, attached.

  6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    7. It was one of the few houses that escaped Sheridan’s vengeance during his famous Raid of the Valley.

  7. ART:
  8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants: Mr. Shrum and John Wenger.

Rockingham County Court Records, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 10, 1937 W.A. Byerly

Bridgewater, VA