Fishers Hill, Virginia Explained

Official Name:Fishers Hill, Virginia
Settlement Type:CDP
Pushpin Map:Virginia#USA
Pushpin Label:Fishers
Hill
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Virginia
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Shenandoah
Timezone:Eastern (EST)
Utc Offset:-5
Timezone Dst:EDT
Utc Offset Dst:-4
Elevation Ft:689
Coordinates:38.9828°N -78.41°W
Postal Code Type:ZIP code
Postal Code:22626
Area Code:540
Blank Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:2830685

Fishers Hill is a CDP in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Fishers Hill is 2.1miles west of Strasburg. Fishers Hill has a post office with ZIP code 22626, which opened on July 28, 1882.[1] [2]

Today it may best be known for the 1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill, a Confederate defeat among the Valley campaigns of 1864, among those which led to the removal of CSA General Jubal Early as well as to the burning of many recently harvested crops in the area by Union forces (the re-created Army of the Shenandoah (Union)) led by General Philip Sheridan. Decades later, until the 1930s, Fisher's Hill was also the site of many summertime reunions of both Confederate and Union veterans, as well as picnics for the area's Germanic families (the latter of which continue through the Hottel Keller), who could readily reach the picnic grounds after disembarking from the railroad at Strasburg.[3] [4] [5] In the 1880s, two distinguished women landscape painters (Bertha Von Hillern and Maria J. C. a’ Becket), and writer Emma Howard Wright lived in Fishers Hill.[6] The Snapp House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as exemplifying the architecture of the areas settlers from Germany.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code. 2012-02-15. United States Postal Service. 2012.
  2. Web site: Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code. United States Postal Service. December 27, 2012. April 28, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190428153255/https://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt008.cfm. dead.
  3. historical marker
  4. https://www.hottelkeller.org/wp/home/annual-meeting/
  5. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strasburgvaheritage/episodes/Fishers-Hill-Battle-and-Reunion-Picnics-e10ai9t
  6. https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/press-release-posts/state-historical-marker-creative-women-of-fishers-hill-to-be-dedicated-in-strasburg/
  7. https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/085-0029/