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  2. Morgan Bryan - Wikipedia

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    Friends that Bryan knew in Virginia moved into the area, including the Boone, Linville, Strode, Hampton, Hunt, and Bryan families. [21] Moravians also moved into the Yadkin River valley area and provided religious support for the Bryans, including performing baptisms and wedding ceremonies. [21] Four of his family members married into the Boone ...

  3. Linville, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Around 1750 Daniel Boone’s father Squire Boone moved his family from Oley, Pennsylvania to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The Boone family farmed in the Linville Creek area for several years in the 1750s before moving on to North Carolina.

  4. Shenadoah (wargame) - Wikipedia

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    Shenandoah, subtitled "A Civil War Game of the Valley Campaigns — 1862 and 1864", is a board wargame published by Battleline Publications in 1975 that simulates two campaigns of the American Civil War: the 1862 Valley Campaign of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, and the 1864 Union offensive drive up the Shenandoah Valley.

  5. Loyal Company of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Loyal Company of Virginia or Loyal Land Company was a land speculation company formed in Virginia in 1749 for the purpose of recruiting settlers to western Virginia. The company continued operations until May 15 1776, when Virginia declared independence from Great Britain though litigation on behalf of and against the company continued until 1872.

  6. Shenandoah Valley - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley in autumn A poultry farm with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background A farm in the fertile Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley (/ ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.

  7. Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet - Wikipedia

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    Gooch promoted the settlement of the Shenandoah Valley in order to buffer the rest of the colony from Indian attacks, and to prevent the French from settling the land. . However, in the early 1730s, Western expansion was fraught by the Iroquois invasion each spring, as settlements inevitably fell along their war-trails leading

  8. Shenandoah Valley Social Services appoints Sherry Bowman ...

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    Shenandoah Valley Social Services announced the appointment in a January press release. The program provides "human services" and "assistance to citizens experiencing financial hardship, neglect ...

  9. List of Norfolk Southern Railway lines - Wikipedia

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    Shenandoah, Virginia: The line is a former N&W property and it was once part of the Shenandoah District, a former N&W line. [26] The Shenandoah District was also known as the Shenandoah Valley Line, Shenandoah Line or Hagerstown to Roanoke. [27] [28] [23] Norfolk District (formerly Lamberts Point to Crewe) Norfolk, Virginia: Crewe, Virginia