New Market Walking Tours

We feature two tours, each departing from the Apple Blossom Inn. Each tour is approximately 90 minutes and may vary slightly according to your guide's presentation of the tour.

New Market: An All-American Town

Join us for a leisurely stroll along the time-worn streets of New Market's Historic Distric. Our guides will highlight the most colorful stories of citizens of New Market from Colonial times to the present. Comprehensive and entertaining, this overview tour captures the historical significance of the town of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley. Sights, Topics and People included in the tour: New Market Gap, Senedo Native Americans, Abraham Savage, Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Paul Henkel, Stagecoach Hotel, Henkel Apothecary & Printing Press, Jessie Rupert, "Mother" Crim, the Valley Turnpike, Carriages and Mills, Churches and Schools.

Boys, Bugles and Skirts: The Civil War in a Small Town

How did the Civil War affect daily life in a rural Virginia town? Walk the streets where Stonewall Jackson's troops marched and hear different perspectives of the Civil War through the stories of New Market's citizens. Sights, Topics and People included in the tour: "Mother" Crim, Jessie Rupert, African-Americans in New Market, Surgeon C.C. Henkel, Captain W.H. Rice, May 15, 1864 - Boys and Bugles, Flags, Shells and Provosts, Flour Mills and Railroads, "The Burning" and its aftermath and St. Matthew's Lutheran Cemetary.

Tickets

Tickets are available online for purchase with MasterCard or Visa or 10 minutes prior to the tour with cash only. $10/adults, $5/children and New Market residents are free.

New Market Walking Tours located at 9317 North Congress Street