New Market Interpretive Initiative

Naming Opportunities – Leave a Legacy

To pursue a naming opportunity, call us at 540-740-4545

Leave a lasting legacy by pledging your support to fund part of the New Market Interpretive Initiative. Underwrite a wayside marker, an audio tour stop, or an orientation sign and you’ll be credited and listed as the donor.  (You can ask us to credit your name, a business name, or a special person you wish to honor.)  The letters and numbers below indicate where the signs are located on the enclosed map.

Orientation Signs ($3,000)

Provide an overview of the battle with a large-scale map and guide to interpretive locations.  Sponsor one of the 3 new orientation signs and you’ll be credited on the sign.  This signs will include:

A.      Sign at the New Market Town Park

B.      Sign at the Woodworth Cottage (Rupert School)

C.      Sign at the Rice Property (Stanley Hall)

Wayside Interpretive Markers ($1,500)

Sponsor one of the 17 new interpretive markers and you’ll be credited on the marker.

Audio Tour Stops ($1,000)

Sponsor a stop on the New Market cell phone tour.  Your name will be credited when visitors dial that stop.

Most of the interpretive stops and audio tour locations are co-located but tell different parts of the history at those stops.  Each interpretive marker will include a QR code linking users to the corresponding audio tour stop.

Stops – Interpretive Markers and Audio Tour

1.       The Battle of New Market [Audio Tour Only](SOLD)

2.       Shirley’s Hill

3.       Henkel House (Audio Tour SOLD, Sign available)

4.       Civil War to Civil Rights (Audio Tour SOLD, Sign available)

5.       The Strayer House

6.       New Market Crossroads (Audio Tour SOLD, Sign available)

7.       Unionist Civilians (SOLD)

8.       First Integrated Church

9.       The Clinedinst House

10.    Opening Artillery Duel

11.    Action on River Road

12.    Confederate Cemetery

13.    Initial Union Line/Shell-Struck Post (SOLD)

14.    Valley Turnpike: March to Battle

15.    Stanley Hall

16.    Action on Manor’s Hill (Sign Sold, Audio Stop Available)

17.    Summers-Koontz Site

18.    Rude’s Hill

To pursue a naming opportunity, call us at

540-740-4545

To listen to a sample stop, Stop #4 “Civil War to Civil Rights”: The Woodworth Cottage Institute, dial 1-504-732-9586 and press “4” when prompted to “enter your stop number now”. You can also scan the QR code above to see the stop and listen on your smartphone.