Fishers Hill is a CDP in

Shenandoah County Shenandoah County (formerly Dunmore County) is a county (United States), county located in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 44,186. Its county seat is Woodstock, V ...

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, United States. Fishers Hill is west of Strasburg. Fishers Hill has a

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with ZIP code 22626, which opened on July 28, 1882. Today it may best be known for the 1864

Battle of Fisher's Hill The Battle of Fisher's Hill was fought September 21–22, 1864, near Strasburg, Virginia, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War. Despite its strong defensive position, the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal ...

, a Confederate defeat among the Valley campaigns of 1864, among those which led to the removal of CSA General

Jubal Early Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was an American lawyer, politician and military officer who served in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. Trained at the United States Military Academy, Early resigned his ...

as well as to the burning of many recently harvested crops in the area by Union forces (the re-created

Army of the Shenandoah (Union) The Army of the Shenandoah was a field army of the Union Army active during the American Civil War. First organized as the ''Department of the Shenandoah'' in 1861 and then disbanded in early 1862, the army became most effective after its recr ...

) led by General

Philip Sheridan Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-i ...

. Decades later, until the 1930s, Fisher's Hill was also the site of many summertime reunions of both Confederate and Union veterans, as well as picnics for the area's Germanic families (the latter of which continue through the Hottel Keller), who could readily reach the picnic grounds after disembarking from the railroad at Strasburg. In the 1880s, two distinguished women landscape painters ( Bertha Von Hillern and Maria J. C. a’ Becket), and writer Emma Howard Wright lived in Fishers Hill. The Snapp House was listed on the

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in 1979 as exemplifying the architecture of the areas settlers from Germany.

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Census-designated places in Shenandoah County, Virginia Census-designated places in Virginia {{ShenandoahCountyVA-geo-stub