WINCHESTER

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WINCHESTER , an independent city and the county-seat of Frederick county, Virginia, U.S.A., 87 m. by rail W.N.W. of Washington. Pop. (1890) 5196; (1900) 5161, including rros negroes; (1910) 5864. Winchester is served by the

Baltimore

BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE, GEORGE CALVERT, 1ST BARON (C. 1580—1632)

Ohio

OHIO

and the Cumberland Valley railways. It is pleasantly situated in the fertile Shenandoah Valley about 720 ft. above sea-level. Fort Loudoun

Seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

for girls occupies the site of old Fort Loudoun, and in the city is the Shenandoah Valley

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

, a military school for boys. The Handley library
(1910), a memorial to John Handley, a part of whose estate was bequeathed to establish industrial schools for the poor of Winchester, and an auditorium are owned by the municipality. The United States National Military Cemetery at Winchester contains the

graves

GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846— )

of 4480 Union soldiers, 2382 of them unknown, and adjoining it is the Confederate Stonewall Cemetery, with about 8000

graves

GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846— )

. The manufacture of gloves is the leading industry; among the other manufactures are woollen and knit goods, flour, leather, lumber,

paper

PAPER
PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

and bricks. Electricity, generated at the Shenandoah river, is used for power in many of the factories.
A

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

was established in this vicinity as early as 1732. In 1752 the present name was adopted and the town was established by act of the colonial legislature. In 1756, during the Seven Years' War, George Washington, in command of the provincial troops of Virginia, established his headquarters here and built Fort Loudoun. The town was incorporated in 1779. The Virginia

Gazette

GAZETTE

and Winchester Advertiser, the first news-

paper

PAPER
PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

published in the Shenandoah Valley, was established here in 1787. In the Civil War, Winchester, because of its position in the lower Shenandoah Valley, played a

great

GREAT

part, and was several times the scene of engagements between the Union and Confederate forcesin 1862, Jackson's actions of Kerns-town and Winchester; in the Gettysburg campaign, the capture of a Union garrison by Ewell (14-15 June 1863); and in Sheridan's campaign of 1864 the battle of Winchester or Opequon (Sept. 19, 1864), for all of which see SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGNS. Winchester was chartered as a city in 1852 and in 1906 the corporate limits were enlarged.
See J. E Norris (ed.), History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley (Chicago, 1890), and T. K. Cartmell, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers (Winchester, 1909).

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