Back Street

Harrisonburg, Virginia c. 1820
Back Street (German St. - Liberty St.)

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It is difficult to determine from Mrs. Carr's descriptions the exact locations of the buildings she describes. Therefore the locations on the map are approximate. Drawing is not to scale.

1. White frame house - occupied by Wm Bushnell - in business w/ brother Henry
2. Unpainted frame house - Mr. Foster & family
3. Mr. Bruffy - Constable\Sheriff - made furniture & coffins
4. Bruffy's shop (?)
5. Edith McWilliams
6. 2 story log house - lower part school kept by Richard Fletcher
7. Mrs. Nye - Cake Baker
8. Betty Lang
9. Mr. Zimmerman
10. Mr. Bowling (Bowlin) - Boot & Shoemaker (#14 W. Market St.)
11. Frame house - Mr. Furry (#5 W. Market St.)
12. Blacksmith Shop - used by Mr. Cowgil
13. Mr. Cowgil & family
14. Mrs. Hite
15. Unknown
16. Wagon Maker lived here (William Reherd?)
17. Dr. Craven's stone house - sold to Wm. Sites
18. Rohr family
19. Unpainted frame house - Mrs. McWilliams
20. Gordon Rodgers - Butcher
21. Presbyterian Parsonage
22. David Jones
23. Frame house - Rev. Mr. Cole
24. Story & 1/2 log house - where Mr. Cole taught
25. Frame house - unknown
26. Frame house - unknown
27. Small frame house - Ferrell (lady)
28. Frame house - Dr. Newman. Later Dr. Moorman was here
29. Frame house-unknown who lived here - later John Effinger occupied as a dry-goods store (#4 W. Market St)
30. Where Mrs. Peggy Smootz was killed by Mr. Hoy (he was tried & executed) (#15 W. Market St.)
31. Unknown
32. Jacob Houck - hatter
33. Mr. Witts (?) - tanner
34. Unknown

Not pictured above - further north Mrs. Carr describes a log house built by Andrew McClellan - and a distance further north from there was Collicello - the house built by Robert Gray, a Harrisonburg lawyer.

Staunton Road (Main Street) including Court Square
Red Hill Road (East Market St.)
West Market St.