Old Town Attractions

May 2008

George Washington’s Office Museum is located at the corner of Braddock and Cork Streets in Winchester.  This small log cabin, between September 1755 and December 1756, is where George Washington kept an office while he supervised the construction of Fort Loudoun. The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday Noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 662-4412 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org 

Stonewall Jackson’s Headquarters Museum is located at 415 North Braddock Street in Winchester.  This home served briefly as General Jackson’s headquarters during the Valley Campaign of the Civil War from 1861 to 1862.  Along with General Jackson, noted Confederate officer, Turner Ashby, and cartographer, Jed Hotchkiss, organized their battle plans in these rooms.  The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 667-3242 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org

Old Court House Civil War Museum is located at 20 North Loudoun Street in Winchester.   Built in 1840, the courthouse served as a prison and a hospital to both Northern and Southern troops.  Winchester changed hands over 70 times during the Civil War.  Soldiers from both sides wrote their names on the walls.  The hours of operation are Wednesdays - Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and on Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm.  For more information call (540) 542-1145 or visit www.civilwarmuseum.org

Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection is located at 901 Amherst Street in Winchester.  The museum complex is open from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday – Sunday.  The Glen Burnie Historic House is surrounded by acres of formal gardens and furnished with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiques, paintings and decorative objects collected by art connoisseur Julian Wood Glass Jr.  Tours of the Gardens- which feature numerous fountains, sculpture and “folly” buildings – are self-guided.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or www.shenandoahmuseum.org

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located at 901 Amherst Street, is a regional museum that will interpret the art, history and culture of the Shenandoah Valley.  The Museum has been designed by internationally acknowledged architect Michael Graves.   The Museum will be open year-round except major holidays.  The Museum has five main exhibition galleries and is approximately 50,000 square feet.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or visit www.shenandoahmuseum.org.

June 2008

George Washington’s Office Museum is located at the corner of Braddock and Cork Streets in Winchester.  This small log cabin, between September 1755 and December 1756, is where George Washington kept an office while he supervised the construction of Fort Loudoun. The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday Noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 662-4412 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org 

Stonewall Jackson’s Headquarters Museum is located at 415 North Braddock Street in Winchester.  This home served briefly as General Jackson’s headquarters during the Valley Campaign of the Civil War from 1861 to 1862.  Along with General Jackson, noted Confederate officer, Turner Ashby, and cartographer, Jed Hotchkiss, organized their battle plans in these rooms.  The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 667-3242 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org

Old Court House Civil War Museum is located at 20 North Loudoun Street in Winchester.   Built in 1840, the courthouse served as a prison and a hospital to both Northern and Southern troops.  Winchester changed hands over 70 times during the Civil War.  Soldiers from both sides wrote their names on the walls.  The hours of operation are Wednesdays - Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and on Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm.  For more information call (540) 542-1145 or visit www.civilwarmuseum.org

Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection is located at 901 Amherst Street in Winchester.  The museum complex is open from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday – Sunday.  The Glen Burnie Historic House is surrounded by acres of formal gardens and furnished with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiques, paintings and decorative objects collected by art connoisseur Julian Wood Glass Jr.  Tours of the Gardens- which feature numerous fountains, sculpture and “folly” buildings – are self-guided.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or www.shenandoahmuseum.org

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located at 901 Amherst Street, is a regional museum that will interpret the art, history and culture of the Shenandoah Valley.  The Museum has been designed by internationally acknowledged architect Michael Graves.   The Museum will be open year-round except major holidays.  The Museum has five main exhibition galleries and is approximately 50,000 square feet.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or visit www.shenandoahmuseum.org.

July 2008

George Washington’s Office Museum is located at the corner of Braddock and Cork Streets in Winchester.  This small log cabin, between September 1755 and December 1756, is where George Washington kept an office while he supervised the construction of Fort Loudoun. The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday Noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 662-4412 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org 

Stonewall Jackson’s Headquarters Museum is located at 415 North Braddock Street in Winchester.  This home served briefly as General Jackson’s headquarters during the Valley Campaign of the Civil War from 1861 to 1862.  Along with General Jackson, noted Confederate officer, Turner Ashby, and cartographer, Jed Hotchkiss, organized their battle plans in these rooms.  The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 667-3242 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org

Old Court House Civil War Museum is located at 20 North Loudoun Street in Winchester.   Built in 1840, the courthouse served as a prison and a hospital to both Northern and Southern troops.  Winchester changed hands over 70 times during the Civil War.  Soldiers from both sides wrote their names on the walls.  The hours of operation are Wednesdays - Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and on Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm.  For more information call (540) 542-1145 or visit www.civilwarmuseum.org

Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection is located at 901 Amherst Street in Winchester.  The museum complex is open from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday – Sunday.  The Glen Burnie Historic House is surrounded by acres of formal gardens and furnished with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiques, paintings and decorative objects collected by art connoisseur Julian Wood Glass Jr.  Tours of the Gardens- which feature numerous fountains, sculpture and “folly” buildings – are self-guided.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or www.shenandoahmuseum.org

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located at 901 Amherst Street, is a regional museum that will interpret the art, history and culture of the Shenandoah Valley.  The Museum has been designed by internationally acknowledged architect Michael Graves.   The Museum will be open year-round except major holidays.  The Museum has five main exhibition galleries and is approximately 50,000 square feet.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or visit www.shenandoahmuseum.org.

August 2008

George Washington’s Office Museum is located at the corner of Braddock and Cork Streets in Winchester.  This small log cabin, between September 1755 and December 1756, is where George Washington kept an office while he supervised the construction of Fort Loudoun. The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday Noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 662-4412 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org  

Stonewall Jackson’s Headquarters Museum is located at 415 North Braddock Street in Winchester.  This home served briefly as General Jackson’s headquarters during the Valley Campaign of the Civil War from 1861 to 1862.  Along with General Jackson, noted Confederate officer, Turner Ashby, and cartographer, Jed Hotchkiss, organized their battle plans in these rooms.  The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 667-3242 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org

Old Court House Civil War Museum is located at 20 North Loudoun Street in Winchester.   Built in 1840, the courthouse served as a prison and a hospital to both Northern and Southern troops.  Winchester changed hands over 70 times during the Civil War.  Soldiers from both sides wrote their names on the walls.  The hours of operation are Wednesdays - Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and on Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm.  For more information call (540) 542-1145 or visit www.civilwarmuseum.org

Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection is located at 901 Amherst Street in Winchester.  The museum complex is open from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday – Sunday.  The Glen Burnie Historic House is surrounded by acres of formal gardens and furnished with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiques, paintings and decorative objects collected by art connoisseur Julian Wood Glass Jr.  Tours of the Gardens- which feature numerous fountains, sculpture and “folly” buildings – are self-guided.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or www.shenandoahmuseum.org

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located at 901 Amherst Street, is a regional museum that will interpret the art, history and culture of the Shenandoah Valley.  The Museum has been designed by internationally acknowledged architect Michael Graves.   The Museum will be open year-round except major holidays.  The Museum has five main exhibition galleries and is approximately 50,000 square feet.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or visit www.shenandoahmuseum.org.

September 2008

George Washington’s Office Museum is located at the corner of Braddock and Cork Streets in Winchester.  This small log cabin, between September 1755 and December 1756, is where George Washington kept an office while he supervised the construction of Fort Loudoun. The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday Noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 662-4412 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org 

Stonewall Jackson’s Headquarters Museum is located at 415 North Braddock Street in Winchester.  This home served briefly as General Jackson’s headquarters during the Valley Campaign of the Civil War from 1861 to 1862.  Along with General Jackson, noted Confederate officer, Turner Ashby, and cartographer, Jed Hotchkiss, organized their battle plans in these rooms.  The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 667-3242 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org

Old Court House Civil War Museum is located at 20 North Loudoun Street in Winchester.   Built in 1840, the courthouse served as a prison and a hospital to both Northern and Southern troops.  Winchester changed hands over 70 times during the Civil War.  Soldiers from both sides wrote their names on the walls.  The hours of operation are Wednesdays - Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and on Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm.  For more information call (540) 542-1145 or visit www.civilwarmuseum.org

Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection is located at 901 Amherst Street in Winchester.  The museum complex is open from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday – Sunday.  The Glen Burnie Historic House is surrounded by acres of formal gardens and furnished with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiques, paintings and decorative objects collected by art connoisseur Julian Wood Glass Jr.  Tours of the Gardens- which feature numerous fountains, sculpture and “folly” buildings – are self-guided.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or www.shenandoahmuseum.org

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located at 901 Amherst Street, is a regional museum that will interpret the art, history and culture of the Shenandoah Valley.  The Museum has been designed by internationally acknowledged architect Michael Graves.   The Museum will be open year-round except major holidays.  The Museum has five main exhibition galleries and is approximately 50,000 square feet.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or visit www.shenandoahmuseum.org.

October 2008

George Washington’s Office Museum is located at the corner of Braddock and Cork Streets in Winchester.  This small log cabin, between September 1755 and December 1756, is where George Washington kept an office while he supervised the construction of Fort Loudoun. The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday Noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 662-4412 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org 

Stonewall Jackson’s Headquarters Museum is located at 415 North Braddock Street in Winchester.  This home served briefly as General Jackson’s headquarters during the Valley Campaign of the Civil War from 1861 to 1862.  Along with General Jackson, noted Confederate officer, Turner Ashby, and cartographer, Jed Hotchkiss, organized their battle plans in these rooms.  The hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday noon to 4 pm.  For more information call (540) 667-3242 or visit www.winchesterhistory.org

Old Court House Civil War Museum is located at 20 North Loudoun Street in Winchester.   Built in 1840, the courthouse served as a prison and a hospital to both Northern and Southern troops.  Winchester changed hands over 70 times during the Civil War.  Soldiers from both sides wrote their names on the walls.  The hours of operation are Wednesdays - Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and on Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm.  For more information call (540) 542-1145 or visit www.civilwarmuseum.org

Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection is located at 901 Amherst Street in Winchester.  The museum complex is open from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday – Sunday.  The Glen Burnie Historic House is surrounded by acres of formal gardens and furnished with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiques, paintings and decorative objects collected by art connoisseur Julian Wood Glass Jr.  Tours of the Gardens- which feature numerous fountains, sculpture and “folly” buildings – are self-guided.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or www.shenandoahmuseum.org

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located at 901 Amherst Street, is a regional museum that will interpret the art, history and culture of the Shenandoah Valley.  The Museum has been designed by internationally acknowledged architect Michael Graves.   The Museum will be open year-round except major holidays.  The Museum has five main exhibition galleries and is approximately 50,000 square feet.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or visit www.shenandoahmuseum.org.

November 2008

Old Court House Civil War Museum is located at 20 North Loudoun Street in Winchester.   Built in 1840, the courthouse served as a prison and a hospital to both Northern and Southern troops.  Winchester changed hands over 70 times during the Civil War.  Soldiers from both sides wrote their names on the walls.  The hours of operation are Wednesdays - Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and on Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm.  For more information call (540) 542-1145 or visit www.civilwarmuseum.org

Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection is located at 901 Amherst Street in Winchester.  The museum complex is open from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday – Sunday.  The Glen Burnie Historic House is surrounded by acres of formal gardens and furnished with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiques, paintings and decorative objects collected by art connoisseur Julian Wood Glass Jr.  Tours of the Gardens- which feature numerous fountains, sculpture and “folly” buildings – are self-guided.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or www.shenandoahmuseum.org

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located at 901 Amherst Street, is a regional museum that will interpret the art, history and culture of the Shenandoah Valley.  The Museum has been designed by internationally acknowledged architect Michael Graves.   The Museum will be open year-round except major holidays.  The Museum has five main exhibition galleries and is approximately 50,000 square feet.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or visit www.shenandoahmuseum.org.

December 2008

Old Court House Civil War Museum is located at 20 North Loudoun Street in Winchester.   Built in 1840, the courthouse served as a prison and a hospital to both Northern and Southern troops.  Winchester changed hands over 70 times during the Civil War.  Soldiers from both sides wrote their names on the walls.  The hours of operation are Wednesdays - Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and on Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm.  For more information call (540) 542-1145 or visit www.civilwarmuseum.org

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located at 901 Amherst Street, is a regional museum that will interpret the art, history and culture of the Shenandoah Valley.  The Museum has been designed by internationally acknowledged architect Michael Graves.   The Museum will be open year-round except major holidays.  The Museum has five main exhibition galleries and is approximately 50,000 square feet.  For more information call (540) 662-1473 or visit www.shenandoahmuseum.org.