E. Market St.

Harrisonburg, Virginia c. 1820
Red Hill Road (East Market St.)

This map is "hot". Click on the building number to read the description.

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. Mr. Site's brown frame store
2. Barn
3. White frame house - Mr. Sowerby - kept boarders
4. Negro barber named Green-leaf - later Richard Fletcher moved here
5. Mr. Wertenbaker - Boot & shoe maker
6. Mr. Wertenbaker's shop
7. Masonic Hall - upper floor used by them - lower floor school room
8. Mrs. Messick - made ginger cakes for a living
9. White house - Mr. Carpenter, a carpenter
10. Joshua Peters - negro - had saddlery business
11. Peter Harry (worked for Joshua Peters
12. Unknown
13. Stone Presybterian Church
14. Houses put up for business purposes & a brick smoke house
15. Brick house - Peter Effinger - House was called Presbyterian Hotel. It adjoined the frame house on the corner - Thomas Clark used SW room as law office
16. Owned by Mrs. Peter Harriet (Graham) Effinger - see Main St. #47
17. Court House
18. Clerk's Office - 1 story stone building.

Staunton Road (Main Street) including Court Square
Back Street (Liberty Street)
West Market St.

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