An African American history tour of Clarke and Warren Counties in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. This self-driving tour features historic African American sites such as schools, churches, neighborhoods, cemeteries, and businesses and more. The tour starts at Mt. Zion Baptist Church and Naked Creek Colored School in Page County and ends at Sunset Hill School in Strasburg and covers a total of 29 sites. This tour can be done in sections depending on what part of the county you wish to explore.
We wish to acknowledge and and give a special thanks to the researchers and contributors to this tour: Shenandoah County Library, archivist Zach Hottel, Robin Lyttle, local historian Nancey Branner Stewart, executive director Monica Robinson, local historian DeLois Warr, and Taya Whitley for their research. Photos courtesy of Robin Lyttle and the Shenandoah Stories Team unless otherwise stated in photo caption. Aerial map images from Apple Maps.
We wish to acknowledge and and give a special thanks to the researchers and contributors to this tour: Shenandoah County Library, archivist Zach Hottel, Robin Lyttle, local historian Nancey Branner Stewart, executive director Monica Robinson, local historian DeLois Warr, and Taya Whitley for their research. Photos courtesy of Robin Lyttle and the Shenandoah Stories Team unless otherwise stated in photo caption. Aerial map images from Apple Maps.
Download a PDF file of the Roots Run Deep Shenandoah/Page Counties Tour booklet (1st Ed,2022) below.
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