Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Edinburg, VA

Edinburg is an incorporated town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley along historic U.S. Route 11, the old Valley Pike.

Before its incorporation in 1852, the town was known by the names Shryock and Stony Creek, and it was settled in the late 18th century by German and Swiss pioneers drawn by the rich soil and water of Stony Creek and the Shenandoah River.

Edinburg had a population of 1,178 at the 2020 census, up from 1,041 in 2010, within a compact town area of about 0.7 square miles.

The Edinburg Mill, built in 1848 by 'Major' George Grandstaff on Stony Creek, ground grain for local farmers as a working mill until 1978.

The Edinburg Mill is famous as one of the few Shenandoah Valley mills to survive Union General Philip Sheridan's 1864 'Burning' of the Valley: townspeople formed a bucket brigade and saved the mill after soldiers set it afire, and a charred timber from the attempt can still be seen.

The mill now houses the Shenandoah Valley Cultural Heritage Museum at the Edinburg Mill, described as the largest museum in Shenandoah County, with three floors of exhibits on Valley farming, transportation, small-town life and the Civil War.

Nine Edinburg-area properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Edinburg Historic District, the Edinburg Mill, Lantz Mill, the Bowman-Zirkle Farm and the Dr. Christian Hockman House.

In the early 1800s Philip Grandstaff operated a gun factory on Stony Creek in Edinburg that made arms for the War of 1812, on the site where his son George later built the 1848 roller mill.

Edinburg sits in a Shenandoah County that counted 44,186 residents in the 2020 census, with its county seat at nearby Woodstock.