. A history of Rockingham County, Virginia . movement, the economiccrisis of 1837, the Mexican War, the Compromise of 1850,John Browns Raid, and the beginning of secession. In Rockingham County the main currents of nationalmovements were being felt and registered, and at the sametime affairs of State and local interest were riding upon hightides. Population was increasing and being widely dis-tributed by emigration; social institutions were being devel-oped, law systems were being perfected, military organiza-tions were being maintained, and natural resources were be-ing exploited. It was a ti
. A history of Rockingham County, Virginia . movement, the economiccrisis of 1837, the Mexican War, the Compromise of 1850,John Browns Raid, and the beginning of secession. In Rockingham County the main currents of nationalmovements were being felt and registered, and at the sametime affairs of State and local interest were riding upon hightides. Population was increasing and being widely dis-tributed by emigration; social institutions were being devel-oped, law systems were being perfected, military organiza-tions were being maintained, and natural resources were be-ing exploited. It was a time frequently marked by sharppolitical agitation, the constitution of the State being re-written twice within the period, once in 1829-30, again in1850-51. Churches were being extended, and not a little at-tention was being directed toward general education, but thechief local movements of the time appear to have been poli-tical, social, and economic, rather than religious or was a time of internal improvements—some railroads. ROCKINGHAM COUNTY being projected, some towns, perhaps, being boomed,several banks being established, many roads being con-structed, and a large number of bridges being erected. In thedecade preceding the crisis of 1837 the building of turnpikeswas especially in vogue, the Valley Turnpike and the oneleading from Harrisonburg to Warm Springs both being con-structed within that time. The Rockingham Turnpike, lead-ing from Harrisonburg eastward toward Swift Run Gap, wasnot built until some years later, but still within the periodunder considerati-on. The roads, good and bad, were beingutilized, not only for neighborhood communication and trans-portation, but also for a great wagon trade with Scottsville,Fredericksburg, Winchester, and other markets; and theShenandoah River at the same time was a throbbing channelof navigation between the eastern sections of the county andthe cities on the Potomac. Chapters XII and XXVI are devoted specially to
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