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Fishers Hill is a small census-designated place in Shenandoah County, Virginia, about 2.1 miles west of Strasburg in the Shenandoah Valley.

Fishers Hill has its own post office, which opened on July 28, 1882.

The community takes its name from Fisher's Hill, a ridge nearly four miles long that stretches across the Shenandoah Valley at its narrowest point, between Little North Mountain and Massanutten Mountain.

Fisher's Hill was known as the 'Gibraltar of the Confederacy' for its seemingly impregnable defensive position above Tumbling Run creek.

On September 21–22, 1864, Union General Philip Sheridan's Army of the Shenandoah defeated Confederate General Jubal Early's army at the Battle of Fisher's Hill, one of the decisive fights of the 1864 Valley Campaigns.

Sheridan's roughly 35,000 men overwhelmed Early's roughly 9,500; Confederate losses of about 1,234 were more than double the Union's 528, and five Union soldiers earned the Medal of Honor for their actions on the hill.

The Confederate defeat at Fisher's Hill contributed to Early's eventual removal from command and was followed by Union forces burning much of the Valley's freshly harvested crops.

Until the 1930s, Fisher's Hill hosted summertime reunions of Union and Confederate veterans, and picnics for the area's German-descended families — who arrived by train at Strasburg — continued there for generations.

In the 1880s Fishers Hill was home to two distinguished women landscape painters, Bertha von Hillern and Maria J. C. a' Becket, and to writer Emma Howard Wight, a group now commemorated by a state historical marker titled 'Creative Women of Fishers Hill.'

The Snapp House in Fishers Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as an example of the architecture of the area's German settlers.