Staunton, Virginia Staunton, Virginia Flag of Staunton, Virginia Flag Official seal of Staunton, Virginia Staunton is positioned in Shenandoah Valley Staunton - Staunton State Virginia Staunton (/ st nt n/ stan-t n) is an autonomous town/city in the U.S.
State of Virginia.
As of the 2010 census, the populace was 23,746. In Virginia, autonomous metros/cities are separate jurisdictions from the counties that surround them, so the government offices of Augusta County are in Verona, which is adjoining to Staunton. Staunton is a principal town/city of the Staunton-Waynesboro Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2010 populace of 118,502.
Staunton is known for being the place of birth of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S.
The town/city is also home to Stuart Hall, a private co-ed preliminary school, as well as the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind.
1.2 Post-bellum Staunton Surveyor Thomas Lewis in 1746 laid out the first town plat for Beverley of what was originally called Beverley's Mill Place. Founded in 1747, it was retitled with respect to Lady Rebecca Staunton, wife to Royal Lieutenant-Governor Sir William Gooch. Because the town was positioned at the geographical center of the colony (which then encompassed West Virginia), Staunton served between 1738 and 1771 as county-wide capital for what was known as the Northwest Territory, with the westernmost courthouse in British North America before to the Revolution. By 1760, Staunton was one of the primary "remote trading centers in the backcountry" which coordinated the transit of the vast amounts of grain and tobacco then being produced in response to the change of Britain from a net exporter of produce to an importer.
Staunton thus played a crucial part in the mid 18th century expansion of the economies of the American Colonies which, in turn, contributed to the success of the American Revolution. It served as capital of Virginia in June 1781, when state legislators fled Richmond and then Charlottesville to avoid capture by the British.
Lewis Miller, Sketchbook of Landscapes in the State of Virginia, 1853-1867.
The caption states: " The business going to Tennessee from Staunton, Augusta county, the law of Virginia suffered them to go on.
Slaves were held in Staunton.
Wright's Staunton plantation.
Trout, mayor of Staunton, describing a donation of $80 to the 1st Georgia Regiment, then encamped at Monterey, Virginia.
In August 1855, President Franklin Pierce attended Staunton.
He gave a speech at the Virginia Hotel, in which he stated that his "feelings revolted from the idea of a dissolution of the union." Located along the Valley Pike, Staunton advanced as a trade, transit and industrialized center, especially after the Virginia Central Railroad appeared in 1854.
Factories made carriages, wagons, boots and shoes, clothing and blankets. In 1860, the Staunton Military Academy was founded.
By 1860, Staunton had at least one pro-union, pro-slavery (the Staunton Spectator) and at least one pro-secession, pro-slavery journal (the Staunton Vindicator). The Spectator ran editorials before the war urging its people to vote for union, while the Vindicator ran, e.g., stories reporting on "unruly" slaves mutilating themselves to escape being sold. In Staunton the vote was 3300 in favor of secession and 6 opposed. During the Civil War, the town became an meaningful Shenandoah Valley manufacturing, staging region and supply depot for the Confederacy.
Fremont occupied Staunton while on his way to a rendezvous with General Nathaniel P.
By October 1862 Staunton was back in rebel hands, occupied by the 2nd South Carolina infantry. On July 10, 1902, Staunton became an autonomous city. Entrance gates, Stuart-Robertson House, Staunton, Historic American Buildings Survey In 1908, Staunton created the town/city manager form of government.
Ashburner was hired by Staunton as the nation's first town/city manager.
Main article: Western State Hospital (Virginia) Staunton is also home to the former Western State Asylum, a hospital for the mentally ill, which originally began operations in 1828.
When Western State vacated the property and moved its adult patients to its present site near Interstate 81, the facility was retitled the Staunton Correctional Center and turned into a medium-security men's penitentiary.
In 2005, the state of Virginia gave the initial property to the Staunton Industrial Authority. It is now a condominium complex called The Villages at Staunton. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 20 square miles (52 km2), virtually all of which is land. Staunton is positioned in the Shenandoah Valley in between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains of the Appalachian Mountains.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Staunton has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Staunton operates under a council-manager form of government.
In 1908, Staunton was the first town/city in the United States to give an assigned employee authority over town/city affairs through statute.
City to implement the council-manager form of town/city government. The town/city of Staunton refers to itself on its website as the "birthplace of President Woodrow Wilson, and the town/city manager form of government." Staunton is part of Virginia's 6th congressional district.
As of 2008, Staunton was suffering one of Virginia's "most harsh populace declines", with the immigration rate and the birth rate failing to make up for the emigration rate and the death rate.
Attorney for the Western District of Virginia stated that Staunton, along with other small metros/cities in his district, had "pockets of ...
According to Staunton's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 Staunton City Schools 500-599 4 City of Staunton 250-499 10 Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind 100-249 Staunton is home to the American Shakespeare Center, a thespian business centered at the Blackfriars Playhouse, a replica of Shakespeare's Blackfriars Theatre.
The Staunton Music Festival celebrating its 20th year in 2017 features multiple concerts each day, with programs of music from the Renaissance to the present.
Staunton is also the center of various arcades and art schools, including The Dwell Collective and the widely regarded Beverley Street Studio School, and its associated Co-Art Gallery.
In addition Staunton is home to the Hypnagogia Film Collective, a compilation of avant-garde experimental filmmakers.
Staunton is home to the Statler Brothers, nation music legends who until 1994 performed no-charge concerts at the annual Fourth of July celebration, accompanied by other nation music artists.
Lew De - Witt was also a eminent member of the Statlers who interval up in Staunton, VA.
Folksinger Phil Ochs visited Staunton Military Academy between 1956 and 1958, where he played clarinet in the marching band.
Downtown Staunton and Sherwood Avenue were used in the American Civil War film Gods and Generals.
In the summer of 2006, some scenes for the movie Evan Almighty were also filmed in Staunton.
Some scenes for Familiar Strangers were also filmed in Staunton in 2007.
Staunton is home to almost 200 buildings designed by architect Thomas Jasper Collins (1844 1925), who worked in various styles amid the Victorian era. His firm, T.
The town/city was once home to about ten hotels, but only one of them is still in operation - the Stonewall Jackson Hotel.
During World War II it was used by the INS as a detention center for enemy aliens held under Executive Order 9066. Some of the hotels that are no longer in operation are The Virginia Hotel, the Eakleton Hotel, the Valley Hotel, the American Hotel and the Hotel Beverley.
Among the homes in Staunton on the National Register of Historic Places is The Oaks, at 437 East Beverley Street.
Until the Staunton town/city parks were integrated, Gypsy Hill Park was only open to caucasians except for one day a year, which was set aside for other competitions to use the park. Montgomery Hall Park was opened in 1950 after much agitation by non-white inhabitants of Staunton. Before segregation ended in the mid-1960s, Montgomery Hall park was the only park in the town/city open to African-Americans Staunton Board of Education, the term "high school" was a misnomer, as the school also contained "first, second, and seventh undertaking classes and two special mentally retarded classes as well as the eighth through the twelfth grades." In 1894, Staunton fielded a baseball team in the initial Virginia League: The Hayseeds. In 1914, the town/city fielded a team in the Virginia Mountain League: The Staunton Lunatics. The Lunatics moved to Harrisonburg in July 1914, just before the league disbanded. From 1939 to 1942, the town/city fielded a team in the second Virginia League: the Staunton Presidents. Staunton presently has no minor league baseball, but the Staunton Braves represent the town/city in the Valley Baseball League, a collegiate summer baseball league that plays in the Shenandoah Valley.
Staunton Amtrak station See also: Staunton (Amtrak station) Amtrak provides service to Staunton under the Cardinal route.
The route serves Staunton's downtown train station.
Staunton had a municipal bus fitness amid the 20th century, known as the Staunton Transit Service, but it was dissolved in 1989. In 1944, World War II veteran S.
Stimson, regarding segregated seating on the Staunton Transit Service and stating that returning black soldiers would not stand for such conditions. This letter was an indication of the part that black veterans would later play in the American civil rights movement.
Commonwealth of Virginia, which found that Virginia's segregated seating law was unconstitutional with respect to interstate bus routes, Ethel New, a black woman from Lynch, Kentucky, was arrested for violating the law because she had purchased an intrastate ticket. New suffered a miscarriage subsequent to her arrest and sued Greyhound Lines and the arresting officer in Staunton. In September 1947, meeting in Staunton, the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the all-white jury's verdict exonerating both the bus line and the officer. Currently, the Staunton Trolley provides fixed-route bus service throughout Staunton. It contains three routes - the Red Route, the Green Route and the Silver Route.
The Coordinated Area Transportation Services (CATS) operates a demand-response service throughout the Staunton area, as well as a fixed shuttle service between the downtown areas of Staunton and Waynesboro. Western State Hospital (Virginia) psychiatric facility Black Virginians were largely barred from education until Reconstruction. The first school in Staunton which allowed African-Americans to attend was established by the Freedmen's Bureau under the oversight of the commanding general of the occupying Union army in late 1865.
In 1964 the Staunton chapter of the NAACP threatened the town/city with a lawsuit if they did not immediately desegregate the enhance schools. The City School Board, headed by Thomas W.
Dixon, declined to take further action, contending that the schools were already desegregated as ten black kids had been allowed to attend previously all-white schools. Attorneys for the town/city of Staunton submitted a plan for the desegregation of its enhance schools in 1965 by eliminating all negro schools in time for the 1967-68 school year, which was allowed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
However, the implementation of this plan was delayed to such an extent that a group of black parents brought suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia against the city.
School Board of Staunton, was decided on January 5, 1966, with the court stating that the delay was a violation of the rights of the pupils under the Fourteenth Amendment and ordering that the schools and their faculty be desegregated in time for the 1966-67 school year. The Staunton town/city school precinct is one of 21 in Virginia which take elementary school pupils out of class for Bible lessons on a voluntary basis, a practice known as Weekday Religious Education. Although the U.S.
In 2005, a group of parents in Staunton asked the school board to halt the practice. However, the challenge was unsuccessful, and the Bible classes are still being taught (as of June 2013). Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind Stuart Hall School preliminary school (boarding for coed, day school for coed) Allen Caperton Braxton, segregationist and Staunton representative to the revanchist Virginia state constitutional convention of 1902. Eisenhower and superintendent of Staunton Military Academy National Register of Historic Places listings in Staunton, Virginia a b "State & County Quick - Facts".
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Staunton, Virginia.
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