Qualla: Harrisonburg https://qualla.com/harrisonburg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Harrisonburg https://qualla.com/harrisonburg Harrisonburg: Introduction https://qualla.com/harrisonburg/ In Harrisonburg public schools, students speak more than fifty different languages at home. The city is also called the Friendly City - a nickname that started as a Chamber of Commerce slogan in the 1960s and has since become genuinely descriptive. About 22,000 students at James Madison University and another roughly 1,500 across Eastern Mennonite University, both inside city limits, mix with multiple generations of Mennonite farmers, hundreds of refugee families resettled here over the last three decades from Iraq and Russia and Eritrea and a dozen other places, and the original Scots-Irish and German Valley families who arrived in the 18th century. Harrisonburg's population, 52,000 in 2020, is one of the most demographically varied small cities in the South.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/f/harrisonburg-wk/dnzf-harrisonburg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Harrisonburg: The Friendly City https://qualla.com/harrisonburg/ Harrisonburg was founded in 1780 and named for Thomas Harrison, an early settler who donated land for the courthouse. For most of its history it was a market town serving the surrounding Rockingham County farms - poultry production in particular grew to dominate the regional econ...

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