Harrisonburg High School is located at 1001 Garbers Church Road, Harrisonburg, Virginia. It houses grades 9-12 and current enrollment is about 1,700 students. The history of Harrisonburg High School is very rich and begins over 100 years ago.                                   ...

Court Square Theater was apart of the downtown Harrisonburg revitalization in 1998. What used to be Rockingham Motor Company is now the historically renovated Court Square Theater. The Theater is located at 41 Court Square and is centered within downtown Harrisonburg. It houses one theater that seats 250 and has continued to bring together the people ...

Veteran’s Memorial Park, located on 395 South High Street in Harrisonburg, Virginia has been the epicenter for baseball in the area since the 1940’s. Once home to the Virginia League Turk’s, the area was purchased in 2008 by James Madison University and renovated for the Duke’s Baseball and Softball teams. Named in ...

The reason behind the development of Burruss was initially to develop a new place for science classes a James Madison University. There were way too many biology students forced into several rooms in Maury Hall, which created an overcrowded and unhealthy learning environment.  The President at this time was Dr. G. Tyler Miller, and he ...

Jackson Hall, originally known as Dormitory 1, was one of the first two buildings on James Madison University’s campus and was constructed in 1909. This building housed the sixty-four female students of JMU, which was then known as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg. Not only did this building house the ...

Opened in 1909, Maury Hall was originally a multipurpose building, known as Science Hall. Not only did it contain classrooms and lecture halls, but it had also housed President Burruss’ office, the first library, bookstore, music room, and the registrar’s office. Noted as the “dream of many”; it was one of the first of ...

The City Produce Exchange building was built in 1911 and was home to the City Produce company until 1949 when it was bought by the Wetsel Seed Company. In 2005 it was sold to JMU alunmi Andrew Forward and Brian Kelley who transformed the majority of the building into luxury condos, called The Flats at ...

The L&S Diner is located on 255 N. Liberty Street in Downtown Harrisonburg. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and has been serving the community for more than six decades. Some notable features of the custom built diner include the flat metal dining car roof, and a large art deco metal ...

The Whitesel Brothers Building is located on 131 West Grace Street in Harrisonburg, VA 22801. It was built in 1939 with two subsequent additions, but most of the original floor plan, windows and glass, and doors still persist. Today, it is privately owned and used by an electrical company.   For more information: http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Harrisonburg/115-5048_Whitese_%20Bros_2005_Final_Nomination.pdf http://www.harrisonburgva.gov/history

Located on the quad at James Madison is Carrier Library, one of two libraries at the university. The university’s first library was located in Maury Hall, the second was in Harrison Hall, until finally Carrier was built in 1939. It was originally named Madison Memorial Library, but in 1984, it was renamed in honor of ...