VA-A55 Fort Bowman

Marker text: FORT BOWMAN

The stone house to the south is Fort Bowman, or Harmony Hill, built about 1753 for George Bowman who emigrated from Pennsylvania in 1731-1732. The house is an important example of the Pennsylvania German influence on Shenandoah Valley architecture. There was born Maj. Joseph Bowman, second in command in Gen George Rogers Clark's expedition for the conquest of the Northwest in 1778-1779 during the Revolutionary War. Among those buried in the Bowman family cemetery nearby are Joseph Bowman's brother, Capt. Isaac Bowman, and Samuel Kercheval, the early-19th-century historian of the Valley.

Department of Historic Resources, 1998

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Location: US 11 in the median between northbound and southbound traffic. Marker is located just south of the Warren and Sheandoah county line, before crossing Cedar Creek., Shenandoah County, Virginia

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