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Harrisonburg is an independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is also the county seat of the surrounding Rockingham County, [9] although the two are separate jurisdictions. At the 2020 census, the population was 51,814. [10]
Rockingham County, Virginia. / 38.52°N 78.88°W / 38.52; -78.88. Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 83,757. [1] Its county seat is the independent city of Harrisonburg. [2] Along with Harrisonburg, Rockingham County forms the Harrisonburg, VA, Metropolitan ...
James Madison University ( JMU, Madison, or James Madison) is a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the institution was renamed Madison College in 1938 in honor of President James Madison and then James Madison University in 1977. [6]
Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley ( / ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States. The Valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (excluding ...
The Edith J. Carrier Arboretum is an arboretum and botanical garden on the James Madison University campus, located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States in the Shenandoah Valley. Groundbreaking for the arboretum took place April, 1985, under direction of Dr. Norlyn Bodkin, [1] who is credited the first scientific botanical discovery along ...
FIPS code 6-4. 25500. The Harrisonburg Metropolitan Statistical Area is a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in Virginia as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 135,571 (though a July 1, 2021 estimate placed the population at 135,824).
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, [a] is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The state's capital is Richmond and its most populous city is Virginia Beach, though its most populous subdivision is Fairfax County, part of Northern ...
Eastern Mennonite University ( EMU) is a private Mennonite university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The university also operates a satellite campus in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which primarily caters to working adults. [4] EMU is known for its Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), particularly its graduate program in conflict transformation.