Welcome to Bridgewater

Bridgewater has always been one of the largest, most prosperous towns in Rockingham County and is still the largest incorporated Town in the County today. Located seven miles southwest of Harrisonburg where the Harrisburg-Warm Springs Turnpike crosses the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.

Because of its continued prominence and prosperity since its settlement, Bridgewater retains one of the largest and finest collections of vernacular architecture in Rockingham County and the central Valley. The district focuses primarily on Main Street, with its rows of closely packed mid nineteenth-century dwellings, but it includes several of the earliest cross streets and the original, pre-1910 portion of the Bridgewater College campus. With few major intrusions in this older part of town, Bridgewater Historic District exhibits the charm and character of the town at the turn of the century.