Rude's Hill (original) (raw)
Rude's Hill is a 981-foot hill just outside of the town of Mt. Jackson in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States, primarily known because it was a strategically placed elevation on which many Civil War events occurred. It was named after the Danish Lutheran minister Anders Rudolph Rude, who arrived in the US in 1836 and married the widow of the Steenbergen plantation. They inhabited a house on the hill called "Locust Grove" which dates to 1792, according to county records. As of July 2014 when the property was for sale, "Locust Grove" was in severely neglected condition with several ungainly exterior modifications over the years, but was still standing.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Rude's Hill is a 981-foot hill just outside of the town of Mt. Jackson in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States, primarily known because it was a strategically placed elevation on which many Civil War events occurred. It was named after the Danish Lutheran minister Anders Rudolph Rude, who arrived in the US in 1836 and married the widow of the Steenbergen plantation. They inhabited a house on the hill called "Locust Grove" which dates to 1792, according to county records. As of July 2014 when the property was for sale, "Locust Grove" was in severely neglected condition with several ungainly exterior modifications over the years, but was still standing. Rude's Hill was an important site in the American Civil War, occupying a commanding high point overlooking the key Valley Turnpike where is passes through a point between Smith Creek on the east and the North Fork of the Shenandoah River on the western side. Rude's Hill is the first elevation on that route beyond the flat Meems bottomland on the south end of the town of Mt. Jackson. It was a particularly defensible high ground because the only practical enemy approach to Rude's Hill was from the north was via single bridges spanning Mill Creek and the Shenandoah's north fork, after which an enemy would need to cross the broad, flat Meems Bottom, commanded by Rude's Hill beyond. And also because if required to retreat, a force could withdraw from Rude's Hill through mountain passes of the Massanutten Range. Because of its strategic placement and high ground location on the Valley Pike and the fact the area had so much action between 1862 and 1865, Rude's Hill figured prominently in the Civil War history of the Shenandoah Valley. (en) |
| dbo:thumbnail | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Rude's_hill.jpg?width=300 |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 34582053 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 14523 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1105651370 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Battle_of_Cedar_Creek dbr:Battle_of_Fisher's_Hill dbr:Battle_of_New_Market dbr:David_Hunter dbr:Denmark dbr:Valley_campaigns_of_1864 dbr:Virginia dbc:Landforms_of_Shenandoah_County,_Virginia dbr:18th_Virginia_Cavalry dbr:Anders_Rudolph_Rude dbr:Massanutten_Mountain dbr:McNeill's_Rangers dbr:Franz_Sigel dbr:Mount_Jackson,_Virginia dbr:Thomas_L._Rosser dbr:Lutheran dbr:Stonewall_Jackson dbr:Jackson's_Valley_Campaign dbr:8th_Ohio_Cavalry dbr:American_Civil_War dbr:First_Battle_of_Kernstown dbr:Jedediah_Hotchkiss dbr:John_C._Breckinridge dbr:John_D._Imboden dbr:Philip_Sheridan dbr:Nathaniel_P._Banks dbr:Reconstruction_era dbc:Hills_of_Virginia dbr:Jubal_A._Early dbr:Shenandoah_County dbr:File:Rude's_hill.jpg dbr:File:The_Civil_War_battle_front_Rude's...iewpoint_south_of_Mt._Jackson,_VA.jpg dbr:File:The_view_from_Rude's_Hill_looking..._(now_Rt._11)_towards_Mt._Jackson.jpg |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Coord dbt:Reflist |
| dcterms:subject | dbc:Landforms_of_Shenandoah_County,_Virginia dbc:Hills_of_Virginia |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Hill |
| georss:point | 38.702222222222225 -78.64472222222223 |
| rdf:type | geo:SpatialThing yago:GeologicalFormation109287968 yago:Hill109303008 yago:NaturalElevation109366317 yago:Object100002684 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:WikicatHillsOfVirginia yago:YagoGeoEntity yago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity dbo:Mountain |
| rdfs:comment | Rude's Hill is a 981-foot hill just outside of the town of Mt. Jackson in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States, primarily known because it was a strategically placed elevation on which many Civil War events occurred. It was named after the Danish Lutheran minister Anders Rudolph Rude, who arrived in the US in 1836 and married the widow of the Steenbergen plantation. They inhabited a house on the hill called "Locust Grove" which dates to 1792, according to county records. As of July 2014 when the property was for sale, "Locust Grove" was in severely neglected condition with several ungainly exterior modifications over the years, but was still standing. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Rude's Hill (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Rude's Hill wikidata:Rude's Hill https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4uJ1Z yago-res:Rude's Hill |
| geo:geometry | POINT(-78.644721984863 38.702220916748) |
| geo:lat | 38.702221 (xsd:float) |
| geo:long | -78.644722 (xsd:float) |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Rude's_Hill?oldid=1105651370&ns=0 |
| foaf:depiction | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Rude's_hill.jpg wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/The_Civil_War_battle_...iewpoint_south_of_Mt._Jackson,_VA.jpg wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/The_view_from_Rude's_..._(now_Rt._11)_towards_Mt._Jackson.jpg |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Rude's_Hill |
| is dbo:birthPlace of | dbr:Charles_L._Kagey |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:Battle_of_New_Market dbr:14th_Pennsylvania_Cavalry_Regiment dbr:18th_Pennsylvania_Cavalry_Regiment dbr:Anders_Rudolph_Rude dbr:McNeill's_Rangers dbr:Mount_Jackson,_Virginia dbr:Mount_Jackson_Historic_District dbr:8th_Ohio_Cavalry_Regiment dbr:33rd_Virginia_Infantry_Regiment dbr:5th_New_York_Cavalry_Regiment dbr:1st_New_Hampshire_Cavalry_Regiment dbr:Jackson's_Valley_campaign dbr:Jedediah_Hotchkiss dbr:Charles_L._Kagey |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Rude's_Hill |
