The Northern Shenandoah Valley's historical stops don't end with Civil War figures. Accomplished musicians, actors and even psychics have left their mark here.

Frederick County/Winchester:

• Country music legend Patsy Cline was born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore and grew up in Winchester. Cline attended John Handley High School until she dropped out to work at Gaunt's Drug Store, which still operates on Valley Avenue. Her home at 618 S. Kent St. in Winchester still stands and has a highway marker in front of it. Cline also worked at the Triangle Diner in Winchester and got her start at WINC-FM. She produced her first music at G&M Music. Cline's grave is at the Shenandoah Memorial Cemetery on U.S. 522 just south of Winchester. A bell tower has been constructed there in her memory, and that stretch of road has been named Patsy Cline Memorial Highway. 542-1326.


• Willa Cather, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, was born in Frederick County in 1873. Her home for the first nine years of her life, Willowshade Farm, is a private residence on U.S. 50, east of Gore, about 10 miles west of Winchester. 542-1326.


• The childhood home of jazz legend John Kirby is pointed out by a highway marker on North Kent Street. 542-1326.


• President James Madison and his wife, Dolley, honeymooned at the Belle Grove Plantation, at 336 Belle Grove Road, Middletown, where his sister was raised. 869-2028

Shenandoah County:

• The Jeanne Dixon Museum, at 132 N. Massanutten St. in Strasburg, tells the story of this war volunteer, real-estate executive, animal lover, philanthropist and psychic. It is open weekends 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 465-5884

Warren County:

• Singer Bing Crosby provided the first $1,000 toward a new baseball stadium when he learned of the project while grand marshal for the 1948 Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, and he held an impromptu performance in front of the Warren County High School band. Crosby returned two years later for the premier of his movie, "Riding High," at which point he gave the final $3,500 needed for the completion of the stadium. Bing Crosby Stadium now plays host to the Front Royal Cardinals of the summer Valley Baseball League. 635-5788


• Actors Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine spent their summers in Front Royal while growing up in Arlington. Their ancestral home is on Second Street. 635-5788