Keyser Run, Virginia

{{Short description|Former unincorporated community in Virginia}}

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Keyser Run, Virginia is an extinct unincorporated community in Rappahannock County, Virginial, located near what is now Flint Hill.{{Cite book |last=Hargan |first=Jim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yAE5FeS9A0UC&dq=Keyser+Run,+Virginia&pg=PA184 |title=Explorer's Guide The Shenandoah Valley & Mountains of the Virginias: Includes Virginia's Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains & West Virginia's Alleghenies & New River Region (Explorer's Great Destinations) |date=2005-04-19 |publisher=The Countryman Press |isbn=978-1-58157-947-5 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Wayland |first=John Walter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fA8ikAowjxAC&dq=Keyser+Run,+Virginia+Shenandoah+history&pg=PA50 |title=A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia |date=1980 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |isbn=978-0-8063-8011-7 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z08SAAAAYAAJ&dq=Keyser+Run,+Virginia+Rappahannock+County&pg=PA83 |title=Approved Place Names in Virginia |date=1971 |publisher=University Press of Virginia |isbn=978-0-8139-0385-9 |language=en}}

The Keyser Run community included homesteads, farms, and a cemetery in the mountains of the Shenandoah Valley.{{Cite web |title=Keyser Wood Cemetery |url=https://www.vagenweb.org/rappahannock/cemeteries/keyser-wood-cemetery.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=www.vagenweb.org |language=en}} The area was named for the Keyser family of Virginia.{{Cite book |last=Cockey |first=Louise Keyser |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SZWAAAAMAAJ&q=Keyser+Run,+Virginia+Shenandoah+history |title=History of the Descendants of Charles Keyser and Henry Miller |date=1983 |publisher=Mrs. R.L. Cockey |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Keyser |first=Charles S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x92yzgEACAAJ |title=The Keyser Family: Descendants of Dirck Keyser of Amsterdam |date=2021-09-09 |publisher=Creative Media Partners, LLC |isbn=978-1-01-359359-8 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Moore |first=Robert H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5X92CQAAQBAJ&q=Keyser+Run |title=Tragedy in the Shenandoah Valley: The Story of the Summers-Koontz Execution |date=2006-09-01 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-61423-479-1 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Johnson |first=Elisabeth Branch |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cSUSAAAAYAAJ&q=Keyser |title=Rappahannock County, Virginia, a History: Fact, Fiction, Foolishness, and the Fairfax Story |date=1981 |publisher=Walsworth Publishing Company |language=en}}

The community became part of Shenandoah National Park during the Great Depression,{{Cite book |last=Lambert |first=Darwin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HiK4-b10jckC&q=Beahm+Gap,+Virginia |title=The Undying Past of Shenandoah National Park |date=1989 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-911797-57-2 |language=en}} and part of the area is now referred to as Keyser Run.{{Cite book |last1=Gildart |first1=Jane |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_SleEAAAQBAJ&dq=Keyser+Run,+Virginia+Shenandoah+history&pg=PR5 |title=Hiking Shenandoah National Park: A Guide to the Park's Greatest Hiking Adventures |last2=Gildart |first2=Bert |date=2022-06-01 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4930-6224-9 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Manning |first=Russ |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EMUUCgAAQBAJ&dq=Keyser+Run,+Virginia&pg=PA56 |title=75 Hikes in Virginia Shenandoah National Park |date=2000-03-31 |publisher=The Mountaineers Books |isbn=978-1-59485-289-3 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2I-V0kpcNv8C&dq=Keyser+Run,+Virginia+Rappahannock+County&pg=RA2-PP6 |title=Soil Survey |date=1958 |publisher=U.S. Department of Agriculture |language=en}} Keyser Mountain is also named for the former community.