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Page County, Virginia

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35historic places

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1831formed

23,709pop. 2020

25cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 35 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Luray, Stanley, Shenandoah.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Virginia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Page titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

15 of 35 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

35 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Almond	Luray	Building	2020
Aventine Hall	Luray	Building	1970
Beaver, John, House	Salem	Building	1979
Catherine Furnace	Newport	Object	1974
Fort Egypt	Hamburg	Building	1979
Fort Philip Long	Stanley	Building	1973
Graves Chapel and Cemetery	Stanley	Building	2008
Green Hill Cemetery	Luray	Site	2023
Heiston-Strickler House	Luray	Building	1978
Jeremey's Run Site	Luray	Site	1985
Kanawha	Luray	Building	1999
Koontz-Cave House	Stanley	Building	2022
Locust Grove	Stanley	Building	2015
Luray Downtown Historic District	Luray	District	2003
Luray Norfolk and Western Passenger Station	Luray	Building	2000
Massanutton Heights	Luray	Building	1976
Mauck's Meetinghouse	Hamburg	Building	1976
Milford Battlefield	Overall	District	2004
Mount Calvary Lutheran Church	Kyrat	Building	2008
Page County Bridge No. 9001	Overall	Structure	2008
Page County Courthouse	Luray	Building	1973
Printz, Abram and Sallie, Farm	Luray	Building	1999
Redwell-Isabella Furnace Historic District	Luray	District	2005
Ruffner House	Luray	Building	2002
Shenandoah Historic District	Shenandoah	District	2004
Shenandoah Land and Improvement Company Office	Shenandoah	Building	1978
Skyline Drive Historic District NHL	Luray	District	1997
Skyline Drive Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Luray	District	2003
Skyline Drive Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Luray	District	1997
Spitler, Isaac, House	Luray	Building	1997
Stover House	Luray	Building	1978
Strickley-Louderback House	Shenandoah	Building	2000
Wall Brook Farm	Luray	Building	2002
Welfley-Shuler House	Shenandoah	Building	1999
White House, The	Luray	Building	2013

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Page was formed in 1831 (1831-03-30) from Rockingham, Shenandoah.

PAGE created from ROCKINGHAM and SHENANDOAH.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Page County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,194	8,109	9,965	13,794	14,770	14,863	15,152	15,572	19,401	23,177	23,709

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Shenandoah National Park	National Park	13.2 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

25 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 25 of 25 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Antioch Cemetery	38.64094	-78.4444
Beahms Chapel Cemetery	38.67272	-78.40839
Bundy Cemetery	None	None
Dougans Cemetery	None	None
Evergreen Memorial Gardens	38.66499	-78.44195
George Comer Cemetery	38.52498	-78.58112
Gray Hollow Cemetery	38.53358	-78.4884
Green Hill Cemetery	38.66483	-78.45501
Grove Hill Cemetery	38.52928	-78.61279
Jeffries Cemetery	None	None
Koontz Cemetery	38.45957	-78.58307
Leake's Chapel Cemetery	38.57765	-78.54673
Longs Cemetery	38.62237	-78.56334
Marshall Cemetery	38.6062	-78.45017
Mason Cemetery	None	None
Mount Calvary Cemetery	38.62984	-78.42362
Mount Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery	38.6125	-78.45368
Old County Cemetery	38.66582	-78.46821
Rileyville Cemetery	38.76622	-78.38584
Rinaca Cemetery	38.50407	-78.64198
Saint Georges Cemetery	38.53562	-78.47916
Saint Luke Lutheran Church Cemetery	38.59533	-78.55612
Saint Pauls Cemetery	38.55146	-78.60659
Samuels Cemetery	38.45957	-78.51195
Tanners Ridge Cemetery	38.51345	-78.44917

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
New Market	5,610	15.5 km	VA110

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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