The First Battle of Kernstown is interpreted at five sites in town. The first is a Freeman stone marker just south of the battlefield on state route 11, the second is a series of signs near the Opequon Presbyterian Church, the third a metal sign. In addition, there are several other sites without interpretation but with relevance to the battle.
The next set of signs are near the Opequon Presbyterian Church
According to the Summer 2006 issue of Blue and Gray Magazine the picture I took from the street below on 104 Fay Street is of the original Hanover Lodge home. The home was moved off its foundation further to the west when it was threatened by road construction. It was the home of Joseph Barton and was located in Hanover Woods. Real estate sites list the homes construction date as 1959. Perhaps this was the year it was moved to its present location on a new foundation.
The Mahaney house is no longer standing. It was described during the war as a two-floor red brick home 20 yards west of the Valley Pike and 500 yards south of Kernstown. It was located in the area across the street from the modern-day Kernstown United Methodist Chruch shown below at 3239 Valley Pike. Confederate artillerist Captain Roger Preston Chew deployed one of his guns, a British Blakely here on the morning of the battle.
The three images below were taken from the church parking lot looking southwest, west, and then northwest.
The intersection shown below looking north is of the Valley Pike and the Cedar Creek Grade. On the day before the battle, March 22nd, Ashby deployed Captain Roger Preston Chew’s three-gun battery here where the war-time Hillman’s Tollgate was located.
