Map of New Market town, Virginia

New Market is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Founded as a small crossroads trading town in the Shenandoah Valley, it has a population of 2,146 as of the most recent 2010 U.S. census. The north–south U.S. 11 and the east–west U.S. 211 pass near it and cross Massanutten Mountain at the town’s titular gap.

It is home to the New Market Shockers of the Rockingham County Baseball League, the New Market Rebels of the Valley Baseball League, the Schultz Theatre and School of Performing Arts, and the Shenvalee Golf Course. The town is known for having been the site in 1864 of the last major Confederate victory in the American Civil War.

New Market town overview:
Name:	New Market town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Virginia
County:	Shenandoah County
Elevation:	1,053 ft (321 m)
Total Area:	2.03 sq mi (5.27 km²)
Land Area:	2.02 sq mi (5.23 km²)
Water Area:	0.01 sq mi (0.04 km²)
Total Population:	2,146
Population Density:	1,114.79/sq mi (430.45/km²)
ZIP code:	22844
Area code:	540
FIPS code:	5155848
GNISfeature ID:	1497040

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History

In 1745, John Sevier, later a Revolutionary War commander, first governor of the temporary State of Franklin, and first and six-term Governor of Tennessee, was born in this town.

On Friday, June 13, 1862, New Market was the site of a skirmish in the American Civil War between a small Union Army and a small Confederate Army. Warfare returned in the Valley Campaigns of 1864. On May 15, 1864, New Market was the site of the Battle of New Market. Students from the Virginia Military Institute fought alongside the Confederate Army and forced Union General Franz Sigel and his army out of the Shenandoah Valley. Every year VMI cadets commemorate the 85-mile march from Lexington to New Market made by the cadets in 1864, who finished with their victorious charge at the Battle of New Market.

The New Market Historic District and New Market Battlefield State Historical Park are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.