Early Pioneer Home of George Chrisman

I begin this blog with a trip to a place between Edom and Singers Glenn VA where Shaver Mill and Grist Mill (gravel) roads connect. Here you come to a two-story stoned, late Georgian to early Federal period home that was originally built between 1761 and 1787 by George Chrisman (1745-1816), a captain in the Rockingham County, Virginia militia during the American Revolution.  It is known as the George Chrisman House, A Virginia and National Historic Landmark.

Google Map location 

George Chrisman was a grandson of Shenandoah Valley pioneer Jost Hite (1685-1761)[1], and his own members migrated west, including three of his own children, who left Virginia for Kentucky between 1790 and 1800.

 See home web site for history - http://www.georgechrismanhouse.com/

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[1] A German emigrant with 16 other German and Scots-Iris homesteaders from Pennsylvania came to the Winchester, Shenandoah County region in 1732 creating one of the early permanent European settlements. Their developed communities include Fredericktown, present-day Winchester.  Click here for family history.