Harrisonburg City
The Harrisonburg Municipal Building is located at 345 South Main Street, Harrisonburg VA 22801.
Phone: 540‑432‑7701.
Neighborhoods
- Airhart
- Ashby Estates
- Ashby Meadows
- Avalon Woods
- Beacon Hill
- Belmont Estates
- Blue Stone Hills
- Brayton
- Brookland Estates
- Camden Townes
- Chestnut Ridge
- College Station
- Connemara
- Country Club Court
- Crossroads Farm
- Cullison Creek
- Emerald Drive Estates
- Estates at Sawmill
- Fairway Hills
- Founders Way
- Fox Hill
- Glen Hills
- Great Oaks
- Green Springs
- Greenport
- Hampshire Estates
- Harmony Heights
- Harrington Heights
- Heritage Estates
- Highland Park
- Hillandale
- Holiday Hills
- Homeland
- Homeplace
- Hunters Ridge
- Kentshire Estates
- Lacey Heights
- Lake Terrace
- Lakewood
- Lakewood
- Madison Manor
- Maplehurst
- Massanetta Springs
- Massanutten Heights
- Meadow Brook
- Meadow Pointe Village
- Meadow Pointe Vista
- Meadowlark
- Mountain Spring Farms
- Northfield Estates
- Park Crest
- Park View Heights
- Parklawn
- Pheasant Run
- Pleasant Acres
- Pleasant Hill Estates
- Preston Heights
- Preston Lake
- Regency Park
- Reherd Acres
- Rocky Forest
- Shenandoah Lake
- Skyview Estates
- Southampton
- Stone Spring
- Stonespring Manor
- Stonewall Heights
- Sunset Heights
- Taylor Spring
- The Crossings
- The Glen at Cross Keys
- The Springs at Osceola
- The Townes at Bluestone
- The Townes at Wellington Park
- The Village at Bluestone
- The Village at Chicago Park
- Vista Terrace
- Waterman
- Westfield
- Willow Hills
- Woodland Estates
- Wyndham Woods
Harrisonburg, an independent city, serves also as the seat of government for Rockingham County.
Harrisonburg was founded by Thomas Harrison, who, with his wife Sarah, had settled about 1739 at this point where the Indian Road crossed the Spotswood Trail. In 1779 the couple conveyed land to the county for the erection of a courthouse, and the following year Harrison procured the passage of an act establishing the town. Popularly known in its infancy as Rocktown, the settlement grew rapidly, fostered by Harrison's sons Reuben and Robert, who supplied lands in 1797 for municipal expansion. In 1794 Bishop Asbury started a Methodist school here, in which not only were gaming and 'instruments of music' outlawed, but no scholar was 'permitted on any account whatever to wear Ruffles or powder his hair.' [1]
- Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Program, Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion, American Guide Series, New York, Oxford University Press, 1940.