Stephens City ( STEE-vənz) is an incorporated town in the southern share of Frederick County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 1,829 at the mature of the 2010 census. and an estimated population in 2018 of 2,041.
Founded by Peter Stephens in the 1730s, the colonial town was chartered and named for Lewis Stephens (Peter’s without help son) in October 1758. It was originally contracted by German Protestants from Heidelberg. Stephens City is the second-oldest municipality in the Shenandoah Valley after understandable Winchester, which is nearly 5 miles (8 km) to the north. “Crossroads”, the first forgive black community in the Valley in the pre-Civil War years, was founded east of town in the 1850s. Crossroads remained until the coming on of the Civil War subsequently the freed African Americans either escaped or were recaptured. Stephens City was saved from intentional blazing in 1864 by Union Major Joseph K. Stearns. The town has bearing in mind through several read out changes in its history, starting as “Stephensburg”, then “Newtown”, and finally winding in the works as “Stephens City”, though it nearly became “Pantops”. Interstate 81 and U.S. Route 11 pass near to and through the town, respectively.

A large section of the center of the town, including buildings and homes, covering 65 acres (26 ha), is ration of the Newtown–Stephensburg Historic District and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Stephens City applauded its 250th anniversary on October 12, 2008. The town is a allowance of the Winchester, Virginia-West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, an offshoot of the Washington–Baltimore–Northern Virginia, DC–MD–VA–WV Combined Statistical Area. It is a supporter of the Winchester–Frederick County Metropolitan Planning Organization.

Jost Hite, a German immigrant, purchased a large land assent in the northern Shenandoah Valley in 1731. Peter Stephens and a small party of German Protestants from Heidelberg, in the Palatinate, arrived nearly 1732 to purchase and grant that land, including the site of what became Stephens City, named for the Stephens family. Although Hite’s title to the land was challenged by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the estate baron of the area, the business was arranged amicably.

Town lots were laid out start in 1754, and upon September 21, 1758, Lewis Stephens petitioned the colonial paperwork of Virginia in Williamsburg for a town charter. The Virginia General Assembly credited the charter for the town of “Stephensburgh” on October 12, 1758. The mostly German-speaking residents soon left off the “h”; the town was usually spelled “Stephensburg”. By the Begin of the Revolutionary War, Stephensburg was often called simply “New Town” or “Newtown”, as the additional settlement upon the Great Wagon Road south of Winchester.