Staunton: Woodrow Wilson's Birthplace and Shenandoah Valley Stage
Staunton is an independent city in the central Shenandoah Valley, roughly 35 miles north of Lexington and 35 miles south of Harrisonburg. Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, was born here in 1856 in the Presbyterian manse on North Coalter Street. The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, and the adjacent Wilson Birthplace, remain active public history sites.
Mary Baldwin University, a private institution founded in 1842, sits in downtown Staunton and was until 2016 a women's college before transitioning to full coeducation. The American Shakespeare Center operates the Blackfriars Playhouse on Market Street, the world's only re-creation of Shakespeare's indoor Blackfriars Theatre in London, where productions run year-round on a bare stage with shared audience and actor lighting.
Downtown Staunton has one of the most intact 19th-century commercial districts in Virginia, preserved partly because the city bypassed mid-20th-century urban renewal. The Frontier Culture Museum on the southern edge of the city includes reconstructed farm buildings from West Africa, Ireland, Germany, and England alongside recreated American rural structures.
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Staunton is an independent city in the central Shenandoah Valley, roughly 35 miles north of Lexington and 35 miles south of Harrisonburg. Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, was born here in 1856 in the Presbyterian manse on North Coalter Street. The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, and the adjacent Wilson Birthplace, remain active public history sites.
Mary Baldwin University, a private institution founded in 1842, sits in downtown Staunton and was until 2016 a women's college before transitioning to full coeducation. The American Shakespeare Center operates the Blackfriars Playhouse on Market Street, the world's only re-creation of Shakespeare's indoor Blackfriars Theatre in London, where productions run year-round on a bare stage with shared audience and actor lighting.
Downtown Staunton has one of the most intact 19th-century commercial districts in Virginia, preserved partly because the city bypassed mid-20th-century urban renewal. The Frontier Culture Museum on the southern edge of the city includes reconstructed farm buildings from West Africa, Ireland, Germany, and England alongside recreated American rural structures.
Sites advertising escort services for Staunton are reviewed on Escortservice.com. Escortservice.com does not run introductions, confirm identities of advertisers, or take part in any transactions. Only visitors who are at least 21 may use the directory.
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