| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2 | The History Cooperative

Warren R. Hofstra. The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shendoah Valley. (Creating the North American Landscape.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 410. $49.95.
"Old" Virginia in the eighteenth century was the Chesapeake tidewater extended westward through the piedmont to the eastern wall of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This was the late colonial Virginia of a waterborne tobacco trade, few towns, plantations, and African slavery. "New" Virginia, beginning during the 1730s, lay beyond the mountain wall in the great valley, first in the "lower" (i.e. northern) Shenandoah River valley, particularly in a new county, Frederick, and its courthouse seat, ultimately named Winchester. By 1800, the valley was well settled, or "planted," and new, especially in contrast with the old eastern commonwealth. The valley boasted a bustling string of commercial towns southward from Winchester past Stephensburg, Strasburg, Woodstock, New Market, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Lexington, all well-connected by roads to local hinterlands where farms were small, slaves few, and wheat—most bound to Philadelphia and Baltimore shippers—was king.	1
Warren R. Hofstra has devoted much of his professional life to Frederick County's origins and the valley's lush development; and this dense and well-argued volume reflects well on the interdisciplinary series—"Creating the North American Landscape"—in which it appears.	. . .

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