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Valley bordered by the Blue Ridge Mountains
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shenandoah
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Population (2000): 5546 Housing Units (2000): 2645 Land area (2000): 3.467062 sq. miles (8.979648 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.467062 sq. miles (8.979648 sq. km) FIPS code: 72525 Located within: Iowa ...
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Shenandoah is one of the first Neighborhoods in the City of Miami. It was established in 1919 by developers from Virginia, and hence the name. The "Shenandoah" area was farmland and piney wood until the real-estate boom of the 1920s, when one residential ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
originally a place name in Dutchess County, N.Y., from Oneida (Iroquoian) family name Skenondoah , derived from oskenon:to "deer." Later transferred to river and valley in Virginia.
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Harpers Ferry and the haunting grounds of the An tietam battlefield park, Grace and Dan had driven up the Shenandoah Valley to Berryville and then through the rolling Virginia countryside to the Ashby Gap, where Route 50 cut through the Blue Ridge range as it headed east toward Middleburg and, eventually, Washington.
The river would be in full spate, especially now with the spring snowmelts from the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
There is considerable Union sentiment in Virginny, more especially among the honest farmers of the Shenandoah valley.
Shenandoah National Park has just eight huts, each able to accommodate no more than eight people in comfort, ten at a pinch, in 101 miles of national park.
The problem, however, is not that there are too many hikers for the shelters but too few shelters for the hikers, Shenandoah National Park has just eight huts, each able to accommodate no more than eight people in comfort, ten at a pinch, in 101 miles of national park.
Although the capital was briefly bombarded, Union General Philip Sheridan pursued Early into the Shenandoah Valley and defeated him at Cedar Creek on October 19.
It started in a humble timber-frame house in the tiny town of Crozet in south-central Virginia, just east of the Shenandoah, five miles off the highway from Waynesboro to Charlottesville.
Most came from the rich farmlands of the Shenandoah, and they learned how to march, to fight, to become a small piece of this great army, under the grim command of a strange professor from VMI.
I was flabbergasted to see Little Phil there, but he would have been a damned sight more so, if he had looked up just then, to see me driving a circus wagon through Kurhesse—a Confederate he'd fought against in the Shenandoah Valley, and stood next to during the stacking of arms at Appomattox.
The rebels had surely guessed that he had his eyes on Gordonsville, because if he captured that town, then he would cut the railroad that connected Richmond with the rich farmland in the Shenandoah Valley.
Starbuck held a hazy map of Virginia in his head, and he sensed how they were now marching parallel to the Blue Ridge Mountains, which meant that just as soon as they reached the Manassas Gap Railroad they could turn west and follow the rails through the pass into the Shenandoah Valley.
Once, when the road rose to offer a view of the moonlit western hills, Starbuck saw the notch that marked where the Manassas Gap carried the railroad through the Blue Ridge and into the fertile Shenandoah Valley.
Clay made the five-hour drive there in record time, not hurried at all but rather as a race car driver speeding through the Shenandoah Valley.
To your left, beyond the other railroad track and part-screened by trees, were the Shenandoah bridge and Galt's saloon.
A very high proportion of those four million annual hikers will be concentrated in certain popular places for a day or a weekend--the Presidential range in New Hampshire, Baxter State Park in Maine, Mount Greylock in Massachusetts, in the Smokies, and Shenandoah National Park.