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Established in 2012, Mennonite Archives of Virginia is a cooperative repository of Shenandoah Valley Mennonite Historians, Virginia Mennonite Conference Historical Committee and Archives, and Eastern Mennonite School Archives.
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Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, 2019 - 2018
SMH Spring 2019 Vol 27 No2: A New Look at the Beginning of Eastern Mennnonite School; Fire at Mt. Clinton Mennonite Church; Brethren Mill Owner; Rhodes Family Cemetery (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2019 Vol 27 No1: Dale Enterprise School; The Sunday Morning Radio Broadcast on WEMC; Knoxville Mission; DNA Ancestry Studies (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2018 Vol 26 No 4: Mt. Carmel Parochial School, Harrisonburg, Va., 1943-1957 (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2018 Vol 26 No3: Stuarts Draft Amish Church 7th Anniversary; Virginia Mennonite Men in WWI (pdf)Download
Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, 2014-2013
SMH Winter 2014 Vol 22 No 1: Twentieth Year Historian Anniversary Edition; Past Editors of Historian (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2013 Vol 21 No 4: "The Mennonites" Reprint from 1895 Part 3; Book Reviews by James O. Lehman (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2013 Vol 21 No 3: "The Mennonites" Part 2 Reprint from 1895; 1919 Mennonite General Conference (pdf)Download
Shenandoah Mennonite Historian 2012-2011
SMH Autumn 2012 Vol 20 No 4: Archives as Ministry; Virginia Mennonite Conference votes to join Mennonite Church USA (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2012 Vol 20 No 2: Early Historians on Virginia Mennonite History; Showalter family history in Virginia (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2012 Vol 20 No 1: 2012 Directory of Mennonites, Amish, and Anabaptist Groups in Virginia (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2011 Vol 19 No 4: Early Page County Virginia Mennonites; Elk Run Meetinghouse; 1825 Virginia Schism (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2011 Vol 19 No 3: Civil War History; Hildebrand family; The Bishop's Letters book review (pdf)Download
Shenandoah Mennonite Historian 2010-2008
SMH Autumn 2010 Vol 17 No 4: Martin Burkholder's letters; John M. Brenneman; Peace Oak in Shenandoah Valley; Review of Zion Mennonite Church history book (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2010 Vol 17 No 3: Chicago Avenue Mission becomes Harrisonburg Mennonite Church; Mission Home at Job, WV (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2010 Vol 17 No 2: Virginia Conference 175 years celebration; Martin Burkholder letters; Amish Settlements in Virginia; Muddy Creek Meeting House, 1851 (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2010 Vol 17 No 1: Directory of Mennonites, Amish and Anabaptist Groups in Virginia; Trek to W. Va. in 1860s; Review of Volume 5 of Unionists Book Series; Martin Burkholder Poem (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2009 Vol 16 No 3: Weavers Mennonite Church and L. J. Heatwole; L. J. Heatwole era (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2009 Vol 16 No 1: Seven Daughters of Timothy and Nancy Showalter; John L. Stauffer on worldliness, 1920 (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2008 Vol 15 No 4: Bishop Timothy Showalter, 1887-1957; Bishop Abraham Shank; Review of Soul on Ice (pdf)Download
Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, 2007-2004
SMH Autumn 2007 Vol 14 No 4: Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War, a book review; Lewis J. Heatwole; Review of Unionists book, Volume IV (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2007 Vol 14 No 3: VMC History and Size, by James O. Lehman; Michael Shank's Will; (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2007 Vol 14 No 1: Deacon Frederick A. Rhodes in 1867; John S. Coffman, Evangelist; Baptismal Class of 1888 (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2006 Vol 13 No 4: Early Virginia Mennonite History; Building Meetinghouses; 1825 Schism; Recordless era of "Spiritual Prosperity"; Mennonite congregations in Va. and W.Va. in 1905 (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2006 Vol 13 No 3: Articles about Mennonites in 19th Century Greenbrier County, W.Va.; (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2006 Vol 13 No 2: Directory of Mennonite and Anabaptist Churches in Virginia; (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2006 Vol 13 No 1: Virginia Mennonites, during Civil War, Engage in Civil Disobedience; (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2005 Vol 12 No 3: Profile of Virginia Conference Congregations; Page County Mennonites; (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2005 Vol 12 No 2: John M. Brenneman; Abraham Brenneman family and descendants (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2005 Vol 12 No 1: Civil War Experiences in Edom, Greenmount and Linville; Dutch Mennonites send relief money to Virginia Mennonites (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2004 Vol 11 No 4: Peace and Nonresistance in World War II; Lindale Mennonite Church new building (pdf)Download
Virginia Anabaptist Families
Attached is a file that Darvin Martin presented to the Shenandoah Mennonite Historians Annual Meeting, November 10, 2018.
Virginia Anabaptist Families by Darvin Martin November 10, 2018 (pdf)
DownloadShenandoah Mennonite Historian 2004-2001
SMH Winter 2004, Vol 11 No 1: Excerpts from Volume 1 of Unionists and the Civil War Experience in the Shenandoah Valley (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2003 Vol 10 No 4: The "Fence Corner" at Mole Hill; Divorce and Remarriage 1867 (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2003 Vol 10 No 3: Northern District map; Northern District photos of church buildings and meetinghouses 1949-53 (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2003 Vol 10 No 2: Mennonite Conscientious Objectors in American wars: Dwight Hartman to CPS in WWII (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2002 Vol 9 No 4: West Virginia Missions Outreach Tour: West Virginia Missionary Lands in Jail; Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2002 Vol 9 No 2: Martin Burkholder; Martin Burkholder's Letters; 1848 Mennonite Petition to Virginia General Assembly (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2002 Vol 9 No 1: 100th Anniversary Harmonia Sacra Singing Weavers Mennonite Church;Index for 1994-2001 (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2001 Vol 8 No 4: Heritage Center for a Common People; History of Park School, 1918-1967; (pdf)Download
ShenanDoah Mennonite Historian, 2000-1998
SMH Autumn 2000 Vol 7 No 4: Stuarts Draft Community; Early history of Eastern Mennonite School (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2000 Vol 7 No 2: A Century of Deaconesses in the Middle District of Virginia Menn. Conf. (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2000 Vol 7 No 1: The Germans in Virginia; L. J. Heatwole, Astronomer and Almanac Maker (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 1999 Vol 6 No 4: L. J. Heatwole, Astronomer and Almanac Maker; Review of The Burning book (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 1999 Vol 6 No 3: Stories of David H. Burkholder; L. J. Heatwole as Weather Observer (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 1999 Vol 6 No 1: The Life of L. J. Heatwole; The Sharon Manufacturing Company (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 1998 Vol 5 No 4: Morning View Mennonite Church history; Abram Swartz stories (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 1998 Vol 5 No 3: Lindale Church Centennial; Ridgeway Mennonite Church; Aldine Brenneman (pdf)Download
Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, 1997-1994
SMH Summer 1996 Vol 3 No 2-3; Hildebrand Mennonite; Henry Shank 1758-1836; Heritage Center work (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 1995 Vol 2 No 3: Bishop Jacob Hildebrand & Secession; Plains Academy Church (pdf)Download
SMH Sspring 1995 Vol 2 No 2: Bishop Jacob Hildebrand & Scession; Brennemans Mennonite Church (pdf)Download
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