Port Republic Study, Ongoing

Port Republic, ca. 1885

    In 1999 and again in 2000, 2002, and the 2007 "Exploring Local Records" class, JMU students researched the community of Port Republic.  Because of its strategic location near the head of navigation on the Shenandoah River, Port Republic became an important town in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Students in the 2000 and 2002 classes used inventories and historic maps to research the community as it existed in the eighteenth century, and plan to publish their findings.