It was originally called The State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg.

In 1914, the name of the university was changed to the State Normal School for Women at Harrisonburg.

Harrisonburg was named as the county seat and incorporated as a town in 1780.

Riley J. Wilson, who held Louisiana's 5th congressional district seat from 1915 to 1937, resided in Harrisonburg, where he was principal of Harrisonburg High School and then an attorney, district attorney, and state district court judge prior to his election to Congress.

Harrisonburg was once a trade capital because of its location on the Ouachita River, with easy access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans.

Harrisonburg was considered for the new site of the Louisiana state capital when the legislature decided to move it from New Orleans after the Civil War.

In the late 19th century, Bridgewater received railroad service to connect it with Harrisonburg and beyond as the Chesapeake Western Railway was built.

Daniel was the brother of Thomas Harrison, founder of Harrisonburg.

It is included in the Harrisonburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the town's population was 433 at the 2010 census.

( In Louisiana, the route was called the Harrisonburg Road.

Their last performance of their United States tour was played in Harrisonburg, Virginia but was shut down by police.

The 2004 conference was in Harrisonburg, Virginia from October 23 to 24.

George Duncan, former editorial page editor of the Harrisonburg ( Va .) Daily News Record, noted that it was hard to pigeonhole EMU, because on some matters ( e. g., internationalist views rather than nationalist ones ) it tends to side with traditional " liberals ," and on other matters ( e. g. " religious critiques about the awful materialism and consumerism of American society "), EMU tends to sound conservative.

On August 17, 2006, religious broadcaster Positive Alternative Radio, Inc. was granted a license to rebroadcast WNRN on a translator in Harrisonburg, Virginia on 95. 1 FM.

From Gordonsville, the Virginia Central was originally planned to connect Eastern Virginia with Harrisonburg, crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains at Swift Run Gap, but construction costs were prohibitive.

The band purchased the name ( for $ 5, 000 ) from the original Animal Logic band, which was based out of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and led by Rob Hatch of Fairfax, Virginia, who is now a film producer.

Carrell's Songs of Zion was a small book of 64 pages, printed by Ananias Davisson in Harrisonburg, Virginia in 1820.

Fort Beauregard, located half a mile north of the village of Harrisonburg, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, was one of four Confederate forts guarding the Ouachita River during the American Civil War.

One restaurant was moved into Harrisonburg opposite the elementary school for a brief time before being purchased.

Curry was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

MACRoCk gives underground, indie, punk, and metal bands a chance to gain exposure and publicity by showcasing them during two days of performances around the city of Harrisonburg, Virginia.

One county and one independent city are included in the Harrisonburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.

* Harrisonburg ( Principal city )

Between the North and South Forks of the Shenandoah River, Massanutten Mountain soared 2, 900 feet and separated the Valley into two halves for about 50 miles, from Strasburg to Harrisonburg.

Rockingham is bi-sected by another geographic formation, Massanutten Mountain stretching from just east of Harrisonburg, VA to a few miles southwest of Front Royal, VA in Warren County, VA. Massanutten Mountain splits the central Shenandoah Valley as the German River and the North Fork of the Shenandoah River flow on its western side and the South Fork flows on the eastern.

In 1863, the fort successfully defended Harrisonburg from the attack of four Union gunboats coming from the Black River to the Ouachita River.

* Ketch Secor of the Old Crow Medicine Show is from, Harrisonburg, Virginia

US 33 extends in West Virginia, from the Ohio River at Ravenswood to the Virginia state line atop Shenandoah Mountain west of Harrisonburg, Virginia.

U. S. Route 33 extends in Virginia from the West Virginia state line west of Harrisonburg across the Shenandoah Valley, Blue Ridge Mountains, and Atlantic Piedmont to Richmond.

Maven graduated from Wilson Memorial High School in Fishersville, Virginia and then went to Eastern Mennonite University of Harrisonburg, Virginia.

" Other books published by Davisson were A Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony ( Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1820 ), Introduction to Sacred Music, Extracted from the Kentucky Harmony and Chiefly Intended for the Benefit of Young Scholars, ( Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1821 ), and A Small Collection of Sacred Music ( Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1825 ).

After Secor finished his schooling at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where he learned to play the banjo, he spent a year taking short musician-hobo jaunts up to Maine and Canada from his home in Harrisonburg.

Rob Huddleston performs at Little Grill Collective in Harrisonburg, VA during MACRoCk 2009. Ann Beretta is a punk band from Richmond, Virginia.

The airport, situated in Weyers Cave, Virginia, is operated by the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport Commission, which consists of members from the cities of Staunton, Waynesboro and Harrisonburg, and the counties of Augusta and Rockingham.

The school is a part of the Virginia Community College System and serves students from the cities of Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Waynesboro, Virginia, and the counties of Augusta, Highland and Rockingham.

Category: People from Harrisonburg, Virginia

That short-line extends from Staunton through Augusta County north to Pleasant Valley outside Harrisonburg in Rockingham County.

* Virginia, except for fourteen counties ( Amherst, Augusta, Botetourt, Essex, Frederick, Greene, Middlesex, Page, Pulaski, Roanoke, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Washington and Warren ) and four independent cities ( Fairfax, Harrisonburg, Salem, and Winchester )

Rockingham County is included in the Harrisonburg, Virginia, Metropolitan Statistical Area and is home of the Rockingham County Baseball League.

Two Civil War battles took place in Rockingham County, one at Cross Keys, just southeast of Harrisonburg, and another at Port Republic, along the South Fork of the Shenandoah River just north of Grottoes.

The Rockingham County Courthouse in Harrisonburg, Virginia, at the intersection of US 11 and US 33

Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua first met in the seventh grade in Harrisonburg, Virginia in Rockingham County, and began playing music together.

The mountain bisects the Shenandoah Valley just east of Strasburg in Shenandoah County in the north, to its highest peak east of Harrisonburg in Rockingham County in the south.