Edinburg, Virginia

Edinburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses 292 contributing buildings, 6 contributing sites, 3 contributing structures, and 3 contributing objects in the town of Edinburg. It includes a variety of commercial, residential, and institutional buildings dating primarily from the time of its incorporation in 1852 to the mid-20th century. They are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Colonial Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne. Notable buildings include the Philip Grandstaff House (1787), Edinburg Hotel, St. John's United Methodist Church (1916), Edinburg High School (1932-1933), Rush House, The Hatch, Piccadilly House (1850), Pres Grandstaff House, Masonic Building (1879), Harshman House (1900), Rest Haven Inn, Edinburg Train Station, Edinburg Village Shops (1896), Wrenn Building (c. 1900), Edinburg Town Hall (1903), St. Paul's United Church of Christ (1911), and the Mantz House (1930). Located in the district is the separately listed Edinburg Mill.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Edinburg Mill is a grist mill in Edinburg, Virginia. The three-story wood-framed building stands on Stony Creek, set on a limestone basement. A working mill until 1978, the original structure was built in 1848 by the Grandstaff family. It replaced an 1813 complex developed by Grandstaff that included a sawmill, grist mill and a carding operation. The present mill was almost burned during the American Civil War, when forces under Union general Philip Sheridan set fire to the mill as part of their scorched-earth campaign. Local women convinced the soldiers to salvage the mill's flour, and the fire was extinguished, saving the mill.The mill is three stories tall with a prominent gable formed by the deep roof structure. Shed-roofed extensions are found to either side of the gable, with a lean-to office addition at the front gable end. Although built in the 19th century, the mill uses some 18th-century techniques, such as shoulder posts.Edinburg Mill is owned by the town of Edinburg in partnership with a preservation group. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 1979. It is included in the Edinburg Historic District.

Dr. Christian Hockman House, also known as Chequers, is a historic home located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1868, and is a two-story three bay square, Italian Villa style brick dwelling. It features a prominent square central tower; wide, bracketed cornices, embellished with decorative scroll-sawn friezes; and an elaborately detailed front verandah.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Bowmans Crossing is a CDP in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.

Campbell Farm, also known as Hite Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The house was built in 1888–1889, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, three-bay, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features corner turrets, a hipped roof with patterned slate shingles, and a front porch with a sawnwork balustrade. The property includes a number of contributing outbuildings including a wash house / kitchen, two-room privy, a barn, a machine shed, and a corn crib.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Lantz Mill, also known as Lantz Roller Mill, is a historic grist mill located at Lantz Mills, near the town of Edinburg in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was rebuilt in 1865, after being destroyed by Union troops in 1864 during "The Burning", an American Civil War military action conducted by General Philip Sheridan in the Valley Campaigns of 1864. It is a 2 1/2-story frame building erected with post-and-beam construction. It sits on an eight foot high limestone foundation and has a steep standing seam metal gable roof. Four additions were made to the mill in the early 20th century. The mill foundation, mill race (contributing), and mill-dam were constructed some time before 1813. The mill closed in the late-1970s.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

The John Miley Maphis House is a historic home located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1856, and is a frame, two-story, gable-roofed, L-shaped, vernacular Italianate style dwelling. The interior features unusual, boldly scaled, grain painted, late-Greek Revival interior woodwork. Also on the property are the contributing frame bank barn with forebay (c. 1870), a one-story frame wash house with gable roof and forebay (c. 1900), and a shed roofed, frame chicken house with horizontal- and vertical-board siding (c. 1920).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

Shenandoah County (formerly Dunmore County) is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 44,186. Its county seat is Woodstock. It is part of the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia.

The Wilkins Farm is a historic farmstead at 989 Swover Creek Road in rural Shenandoah County, Virginia, near Edinburg. The home was recognized under three criterion. Criterion A under Exploration/Settlement as a late 18th-century German farmstead, Criterion B in the area of Art as the boyhood home of fraktur artist Emanuel Wilkins, and Criterion C for Architecture of German builders who used native materials of limestone, hardwoods and Yellow pine. The primary dwelling on the farm was a frontier log structure, c.1776 that was evolved to a two-story midland folk, log home c. 1789. The older portion, a simple log cabin, was built by Augustine Cofman in order to satisfy the requirements of a land grant he had received the prior year, which required placement of a dwelling on the 188.5-acre (76.3 ha) grant. A The larger, two- story log structure was built with the cabin as a side ell. The farm was in the Wilkins family from 1824 until 2003.The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

Short Mountain lies along the northwestern margin of Massanutten Mountain in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It is seven miles in length, from Mount Jackson on the south end to Edinburg on the north, so it was also once known as "Seven-Mile Mountain". The Massanutten Trail traverses the mountain.

Central High School is located in the town of Woodstock, Virginia and is part of the Shenandoah County Public Schools. It was built in 1959. It serves 796 students in grades 9-12. In 2006, Central High School had 14 students for every full-time equivalent teacher (the Virginia state average is 12). The principal as of 2023 is Frank Palmieri. Central High School's colors are royal blue and old gold and their mascot is the falcon. Central High School and the other two Shenandoah County high schools desegregated in 1963. In 2015, CHS was designated a National Blue Ribbon School.