Attractions
Museums
American Celebration on Parade -- 261 Caverns Road, Shenandoah Caverns 540-477-4300 The County’s newest attraction surrounds you with fantasy and places you where presidents and other prominent Americans have stood. Home to parade floats and stage settings from Inaugural festivities honoring present and past residents and authentic pieces of American History.
Jeane Dixon Museum -- 132 North Massanutten Street, Strasburg 540-465-5999. The Jeane Dixon Museum and Library tells the story of one of the most remarkable women of the 20th Century. Best known as the seer who predicted the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Mahatma Gandhi, was also a devoted wife, real estate executive, wartime volunteer, animal lover, and humanitarian. The Museum contains her artifacts, pictures, memorabilia, awards, honoraria, furniture, clothing, pictures, and mementoes. The extensive research library contains hundreds of volumes on prophecy, paranormal studies, and presidential biographies, including books Mrs. Dixon authored as well as those she collected and studied.
The Museum of American Presidents -- 130 North Massanutten Street, (PO Box 31), Strasburg, 540-465-5884. This museum contains an impressive display of presidential portraits, signatures, artifacts, and memorabilia from 60-year private collection. Collection includes the desk of James Madison, White House doors, a 100+ year-old reproduction of signatures of Presidents and signers of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. The One-Room Schoolhouse, a children’s hands-on area, contains reproduction colonial costumesto try on and discovery boxes to examine on antique school desks around a pot- bellied stoveand slate chalkboard.
Mount Jackson Museum -- King Street, Mt. Jackson
Meetings are held the 1st Monday of the Month (check local Newspapers for location). Most meetings feature a guest speaker on topics of local history. The museum is dedicated to the historic preservation of Mount Jackson and surrounding areas. Located in the Town Hall on Main Street.
Edinburg Madison District Museum – 107 Center Street, Edinburg
540-984-8521. Open on Saturday and Sunday 1:00 - 4:00 from June 1 thru October. Located in the Old Town Hall building, Circa 1903. The building served as the home of the Edinburg Fire Company until it relocated to Main Street in 1954. This location also served as the Town Hall until 1973 and as the Town Maintenance shop until 1996. It was also the home of the Edinburg Teen Center in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s and the Campfire Girls in the early 1900’s. The Museum located here in 1997 and houses a collection of local memorabilia and a photographic history of the area.
Strasburg Museum -- 440 E King Street, Strasburg 540-465-3175
Hours: May – October 10:00am to 4:00pm. A Shenandoah Valley Community presents its past with blacksmith, cooper, and potter shop collections, Indian artifacts, displays from colonial farms, homes, barns and businesses, relics from Civil War and Railroad Eras.
Woodstock Museum -- 137 W Court Street, Woodstock 540-459-5518
Visit the history of Woodstock at the Woodstock Museum. Schmitt’s Early Drug Store, Early Farm Kitchen, tolls, pottery, tinware, documents, and linens.