Links

Longs Chapel Preservation Society is working with other organizations in the community with similar goals and interests. Here are some links to our partners and references to our project:

www.harrisonburgtourism.com
The Harrisonburg Visitor's Center is working to include under it's History & Heritage Attractions section information about African-American history in the Shenandoah Valley.

www.heritagecenter.com
The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society has also been working with us to celebrate and display African-American heritage in the Shenandoah Valley.

www.ypci.org
In 2005, Billo Communications produced and premiered The Legacy of Lucy F. Simms School: Education during Segregated Times in Virginia. This documentary tells the story of Lucy Simms, the pioneering African-American educator of Harrisonburg who began her teaching career in Zenda.

www.rockingham.k12.va.us
This reference to Zenda is made in the History of Rockingham County Public Schools.

News articles


  • Mellott, Jeff. "Remembering Zenda." The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) 17 August 2007.

  • Reynolds, David. "Black History Revisited, Restored." The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) 23 April 2007.

  • Bowman, Rachel. "Brochure Helps Connect The Historical Dots." The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) 22 March 2007.

  • Jones, Jenny. "Chapel Added to State Registry." The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) 9 September 2006.

  • Mason, Melvin. "Slave Home to be Moved, Saved." The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) 26 July 2006.

  • Mason, Melvin. "Chapel Owner to Talk History." The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) 17 January 2006

  • Mason, Melvin. "Tourism Center Pinpoints Black History Sights." The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) 3 January 2006

  • Trice, Calvin. "From Slaves to Landowners: Rockingham chapel leads historians, preservationists to a freedmen's community." Richmond Times-Dispatch 9 October 2006.

  • Mason, Melvin. "EMU Students to Dig up Area's Past." The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) 23 September 2005.

  • Mason, Melvin. "Writers Contribute to Chapel Project." The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) 13 September 2005.

  • Mason, Melvin. "Church Reveals Black History." The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) 4 December 2004.


    • Books

    Available Now! "An African American Community of Hope, Zenda: 1869-1930" by Nancy Bondurant Jones.