Today in Maurertown

We don't see many phone booths these days, and this one in Maurertown stands as decoration and nostalgia. Can you identify the shirt? The wind was blowing strongly so I did not get a full image of the logo. 

Half a mile away is the Shenandoah County Park. It has athletic fields, trails, a pool, and disc golf, but it is also part of the site of a Civil War battle that swept through here in 1864. 

Sharing with Signs 2

A drawing on the sign shows a lookout on Signal Knob, a peak that I've featured many times. You can see it from this park.

Here's the story on the Civil War Trails Marker. 

Toms Brook

As October 9, 1864, dawned, a line of poorly armed mounted Confederate soldiers shook themselves awake along Jordan Run. A fog, thickened by smoke from multiple fires, greeted their eyes. The haze, however, did not deter the troopers’ desire to exact revenge on the Union horsemen who had spent the last two weeks destroying mills, barns, and crops. From this position, a long column of Union soldiers could be seen moving quickly toward you. Union Gen. Philip Sheridan, watching from Round Hill in front of you, had ordered the attack.
Half of Sheridan’s force moved quickly through the hamlet of Toms Brook toward the Confederates waiting here. Meanwhile, the other half moved off to your left beyond the modern interstate. As the Union soldiers pushed their way along the Valley Pike (U.S. Rte. 11) a ferocious Confederate counterattack drove them back in confusion. But seeing an opportunity, Union reinforcements swept around to the left of the road. The fresh and rapid Union attack, coupled with the action unfolding to the west of here, broke the Confederate line. The Confederate retreat turned into a panic as Sheridan’s troopers chased them toward the town of Woodstock in what became known as the “Woodstock Races.”