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Cyrus McCormick Memorial, Shenandoah Valley AREC
- A five-acre memorial plot at the Shenandoah AREC pays tribute to Cyrus McCormick and the ingenuity of the McCormick family. The memorial area is designated a National Historic Landmark and Virginia Wayside site, and is visited by thousands of visitors every year.
Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the first successful reaper and founded the harvesting machine industry. In July 1831, at 22 years of age, McCormick first demonstrated his invention publicly. This, the world's first successful mechanical reaper, opened a new era in agriculture, an age of mechanization that changed life on the farm, altered American advertising, and made it possible for millions of people to leave the land and enter an industrial society. Visitors are welcome to tour the McCormick farm in Walnut Grove, including the historic blacksmith shop turned museum, grist mill and manor house, which are National Historic Landmarks. Shenandoah Valley AREC PO Box 100 128 McCormick Farm Circle Steeles Tavern, VA 24476 E-mail: dafiske@vt.edu Phone: 540-377-2255 Fax: 540-377-5850
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Virginia, State, Commonwealth of Virginia, Architecture, Travel, Scenics, Structure, American, USA, history, historic
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- Code Number:
- COVV02P11_17
- Title:
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Cyrus McCormick Memorial, Shenandoah Valley AREC
- A five-acre memorial plot at the Shenandoah AREC pays tribute to Cyrus McCormick and the ingenuity of the McCormick family. The memorial area is designated a National Historic Landmark and Virginia Wayside site, and is visited by thousands of visitors every year.
Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the first successful reaper and founded the harvesting machine industry. In July 1831, at 22 years of age, McCormick first demonstrated his invention publicly. This, the world's first successful mechanical reaper, opened a new era in agriculture, an age of mechanization that changed life on the farm, altered American advertising, and made it possible for millions of people to leave the land and enter an industrial society.
Visitors are welcome to tour the McCormick farm in Walnut Grove, including the historic blacksmith shop turned museum, grist mill and manor house, which are National Historic Landmarks.
Shenandoah Valley AREC
PO Box 100
128 McCormick Farm Circle
Steeles Tavern, VA 24476
E-mail: dafiske@vt.edu
Phone: 540-377-2255
Fax: 540-377-5850
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Virginia, State, Commonwealth of Virginia, Architecture, Travel, Scenics, Structure, American, USA, history, historic
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