Massanutten Academy in Woodstock, Virginia, was established in 1898 by the Virginia Classis of the Reformed Church in the United States. Charter members of the Board of Trustees were Rev. J. Silor Garrison, Rev. A. B. Bauman, N. B. Schmitt, J. H. Hepner, William C. Lantz, E. D. Newman, Rev. N. H. Skyles, P. W. Magruder, M. M. Campbell, Rev. R. R. Jones, David A. Miller, H. M. Rogers, Rev. James B. Stonesifer, Robert L. Gray, and J. A. Hoffheins, D. D. In 1949, on the academy's fiftieth anniversary, the faculty and staff dedicated it to Head Master Howard J. Benchoff, A.M.P.D.D., in recognition of forty four years of outstanding and devoted service.