HARRISONBURG, a city of north-western Virginia, U.S.A., in the beautiful Shenandoah valley, at an altitude of 1,300f t. ; the county seat of Rockingham county. It is on the Lee highway, and is served by the Baltimore and Ohio, the Chesapeake Western and the Southern railways, and by motor-coach lines in every direc tion. The population was 5,875 in 1920 (86% native white) and was 7,232 in 1930 by the Federal census. It is the seat of a State teachers' college for women and in the centre of a rich farming region. Its manufactures are chiefly such as use agri cultural products or contribute to their production, and include the largest poultry-fattening houses in the East and several hatch eries and incubators. Harrisonburg was established by an act of the legislature in 1780, and at first was called Rocktown, from the large out-crop of limestone. It was incorporated as a town in 1849 and became a city in 1916.