Welcome to our site about Mennonites in Virginia
Welcome to our site about Mennonites in Virginia
Welcome to our site about Mennonites in VirginiaWelcome to our site about Mennonites in Virginia
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Photo above is Dayton Mennonite Church, Dayton, Va., December 30, 2019
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Who We Are
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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An online repository, Mennonite Archives of Virginia includes scanned and born-digital photos from institutional archives, family collections, and individual contributors. To contribute photos, contact web host Elwood Yoder at Eastern Mennonite High School, 801 Parkwood Drive, Harrisonburg, VA, 22802.
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Subscribe to the quarterly journal Shenandoah Mennonite Historian
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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