It’s National Military Appreciation Month

Salute the Front Royal Remount Station

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Collection Highlights Determining the age of the horse by inspecting the teeth, 1941. The Front Royal Remount Station photographs show how the U.S. Army nurtured and trained mules and horses used in military campaigns. This Virginia station (1911-1948) served as the U.S. Army's east coast remount depot. Located near a railroad for convenient transportation, it consisted of 5,000 acres adjacent to the Blue Ridge Mountains, south and slightly east of the town of Front Royal. Indigenous tribes lived and hunted on this land for thousands of years. In the 1744 Treaty of Lancaster, the Iroquois Confederation negotiated with the Virginia Colony and agreed to cede this part of Virginia. After several treaties and battles, Europeans took all Native American land in Virginia. Discover more about the remount depot at the National Agricultural Library, Special Collections exhibit.

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