Hi all, The photos of Stephens City, Frederick Co., VA will be back Thurs eve. I'll try and get everyone of them "up and online" by Sunday night along with maps; land tracts with bio's on each house and it's occupants as well as it's location. Photos include: MAYERS and MYERS homes, cabins, shops, tombstones, churches; land tracts from ca 1765 maybe earlier; graveyards, etc. I'm getting back up there a.s.a.p. and this time I'll get as many records as I can at Winchester's library; I hear it's great! And to think, this Stephens City, formerly "Newtown" & "Stephensburg" is right on old Route 11, an old wagontrail and right over the next mountain (South is not it's name but ?? will get it in my mind soon) is Spotsylvania / Germanna area. Maryland is about 30 minutes up the road as well as West VA and PA. SAMPLE: Lutheran and Reformed Church and Cemetery at the corner of Mulberry Street and Marlboro; This lot was purchased in 1785 as a log church was built there by 1786. A brick bldg. was erected in 1812 and enlarged in 1851 and 1880. It was torn down in 1906 but they used the original bricks for the interior wall that now stands. At the cemetery lies a "Leonard MYERS". Til I get the photos back my guess is he was born in the mid 1700's; died early 1800's. His was is there too. There are other MAYERS and MYERS here as well as another cemetery on German Street which runs parallel with Main Street where several MAYERS had shops. Because this town was on a main wagontrail most of the shops focus was on "wagon repairs" and "rebuilding" etc... such as G.F. MAYERS store built sometime pre-1900 as a cigar factory on the 2nd fl and a farm tool business on the lower level; also the post office was here. It is believed that the property was purchased by G.F. MAYERS from John NOLEN, a pottery merchant ca 1820's. There are several other churches in the area which include a Methodist Church which was orginally licensed in 1835 as Captain Joseph LONG's Tavern; later McARTORS store. Also it was used by local militia and magistrates as a "court of inquiry" and town trustees for meetings ca 1800's. A very very old cabin, ca 1785 is on the corner of Marlboro and Greene Sts and it is registered belonging once to a "Jane MYERS". Who was she? Hmmm... There is a very large cemetery on a hill above Main Street as I found many associated surnames there as well. This city took quite a beating during the Civil War too having many homes, businesses and churches burned. There are also MAYERS and MYERS listed as "wagonmakers", "blacksmiths", "undertakers" as well as "cabinetmakers". The city was known as a "Valley Pike Town" and it hasn't change much at all in all of these centuries which is what I found to be most remarkable. Yet it sits, unassuming just waiting for a MOYERS MYERS MAYERS to walk in and dig up her old records... BROOKOVER, COWGER, KRABAL, MOYERS, MYRES, SWECKER --------------------------- # --------------------------- Rootsweb List Administrator - [email protected] Homestead for MYERS GENEALOGY.COM at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chrystiem/myersfam.html