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Fort Bowman

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Area
  
0 acres (0 ha)

NRHP Reference #
  
69000279

Designated VLR
  
November 5, 1968

Added to NRHP
  
25 November 1969

Built
  
1753 (1753)

VLR #
  
085-0004

Opened
  
1753

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Location
  
Northeast of junction of Rtes. 660 and U.S. 11, near Middletown, Virginia

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Fort Bowman, also known as Harmony Hall, is a historic home and national historic district located near Middletown, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1753, by Pennsylvania German settler George Bowman (1699–1768), father of Colonel John Bowman (1738-1784), Colonel Abraham Bowman (1749-1837), Major Joseph Bowman (c. 1752-1779), and Captain Isaac Bowman (1757-1826). It is a two-story, rectangular limestone building with a gable roof. The interior retains its original woodwork. It has a later kitchen wing and iron and wood portico. Also on the property are a contributing dairy / smokehouse and the Bowman graveyard, which includes the grave of Isaac Bowman.

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

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References

Fort Bowman Wikipedia