Stephens Landing Homeowners Association, Inc.

stephens landing is a planned traditional neighborhood development, established in 2003, in historic stephens city, virginia. the town of stephens city is a small town in the northern shenandoah valley of virginia. stephens city was founded october 12, 1758 and is the second oldest town in the shenandoah valley. the town was originally settled by individuals of scottish, irish, and german ancestry. in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries. stephens city, then known as newtown, became prosperous as a crossroads village with a variety of small scale crafts and industries, featuring production of the renowned newtown wagon. this prosperity peaked in the 1840s. with ravages and disruptions brought on by the town’s location in the midst of conflict during the civil war, and with subsequent nationally-scaled changes in transportation, industry, and agriculture, stephens city suffered. stephens city is remarkable because it has retained its small-town character over two c