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Snickers Gap, originally William's Gap, is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountain on the border of Loudoun County and Clarke County in Virginia. The gap is traversed by Virginia State Route 7 . The Appalachian Trail also passes across the gap.
1775 map showing the area northwest of Alexandria. In the late 18th century, there were two roads over the Blue Ridge Mountains between Alexandria and Winchester, crossing at Snickers Gap (now along State Route 7) and Keyes Gap (State Route 9).Thomas Jefferys, 1776, A Map of the most Inhabited part of Virginia, drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1775, London: Sayer and Bennett The ...
On July 17, the Union cavalry passed westward through Snicker's Gap and unsuccessfully attempted to force passage of the river at Castleman's Ferry (Snicker's Ford). The following day, Union Generals Crook and Wright arrived at Snicker's Gap and determined to attack what they mistakenly thought was a light picket line of Confederates along the ...
Snickers Gap, originally William's Gap in 1769, on Virginia State Route 7; Ashby's Gap, elevation 1,100 feet, on U.S. Route 50; Manassas Gap, also known as Markham's Gap and Calmese Gap, elevation 950 feet, on U.S. Route 55 and Interstate 66; Chester Gap, also known as Happy Creek Gap, elevation 1,339 feet, on U.S. Route 522
Late in the afternoon on the 16th, Federal cavalry under Alfred N. Duffié, also operating from Harpers Ferry, raided Early's wagon trains as they traveled west towards Snickers Gap on the Leesburg and Snickers Gap Turnpike just east of Purcellville at Heatons' Crossroads. That evening at dusk, Duffié's cavalry attacked and routed a detachment ...
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One 1.86-ounce Snickers bar contains 26 grams of added sugar (it's recommended that women consume no more than 25 grams of added sugar per day, and that consume no more than 36 grams), and 4.5 ...
Bluemont is an unincorporated village in Loudoun County, Virginia located at the eastern base of Snickers Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains.The village's center is located along Snickersville Turnpike (Virginia Route 734), 4 miles (6.4 km) west of the incorporated town of Round Hill.