{"nrhp_refnum":"72001416","name":"New Market Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of U.S. 11 and 211","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Market","county":"Shenandoah County","state":"VA","lat":38.64707096200004,"lon":-78.67206894528823,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-09-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Military","Literature","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the present-day town of New Market in Shenandoah County, Virginia, a linear Shenandoah Valley town along U.S. Route 11 (the old Valley Pike). It was laid out in 1785 and grew from a trader's store established in 1761.","why_significant":"The nomination argues New Market is one of the best preserved and most historic linear towns along the Valley Pike, having grown little since the mid-nineteenth century. It also holds the Henkel Press, the oldest Lutheran press in America, and was tied to the 1864 Battle of New Market. The district also has notable early brick, frame, and log buildings.","narrative":"New Market is a small Shenandoah Valley town stretching just under a mile along U.S. Route 11, the old Valley Pike. It began at a crossroads where John Sevier opened a trader's store in 1761, and Peter Palsel laid out the town in 1785. It was officially named New Market in 1796. Most buildings are two-story brick or frame structures with gable roofs set at the front of their lots, and about two thirds of the roughly one hundred along the main road date from the nineteenth century. Notable buildings include the Strayer House, later the Lee-Jackson Hotel, a limestone Henkel family house, a log store, and Emmanuel Lutheran Church. The Henkel Press, founded in 1806, is the oldest Lutheran press in America. The town also figured in the Civil War battle of May 15, 1864. Growth stopped in the late nineteenth century when the Valley Pike traffic dwindled and the railroad bypassed it, which preserved the town's early character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mixed 18th and 19th century town architecture: Federal, Georgian, Italianate, Romanesque Revival, and log and frame vernacular buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied town in good condition and unaltered, with some modern intrusions such as utility poles, overhead wires, large signs and gasoline stations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.771137-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/6836/41683611/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/72001416.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001416/9aaa0d5b15-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001416/9aaa0d5b15-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Strawser","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Market_VA_Historic_District_Sept_2013.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Strawser</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Market_VA_Historic_District_Sept_2013.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683611","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Market_Historic_District_(New_Market,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15262073"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/shenandoah-county/new-market-historic-district-72001416/"}