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The town was established in 1854 and known as Santa Fe (/ f iː /), but was unable to establish a post office as there was already another Santa Fe, Indiana. Several town meetings were held, during which the name Santa Claus was selected. The town has the world's only post office to bear the name of the eponymous Christmas figure. Because of ...
The charm of Bavaria can be found in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Helen is a small town that was designed to look as if it was airlifted straight from Germany, and come winter, the community is ...
Blue Ridge Mountains - Front Royal, Virginia Although the term "Blue Ridge" is sometimes applied exclusively to the eastern edge or front range of the Appalachian Mountains, the geological definition of the Blue Ridge province extends westward to the Ridge and Valley area, encompassing the Great Smoky Mountains, the Great Balsams, the Roans, the Blacks, and other mountain ranges.
Blue Ridge was originally called Cynthiana, and under the latter name was platted in 1835. [3] A post office called Blue Ridge was established in 1847, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907. [4] Blue Ridge contained a school that was discontinued at an unknown date. [5]
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The “Christmas City of the High Plains” (a title the town has proudly held since 1950) puts on the largest holiday extravaganza between Kansas City and Denver, complete with a 35-foot-tall ...
In the early 18th century, an estimated 2100 Cherokee people inhabited more than sixteen towns east of the Blue Ridge Mountains and across the Piedmont plains in what was then considered Indian Country. [1] [2] [page needed] [3] [notes 1] Generally, European visitors noted only the towns with townhouses. Some of their maps included lesser ...
As the Potomac River approaches the Blue Ridge on the eastern edge of the Shenandoah Valley, the river turns to the south paralleling the ridge to Bolivar, West Virginia, where it then cuts east, past Harpers Ferry to its confluence with the Shenandoah River at the western edge of the first gap between Blue Ridge Mountain to the south in Virginia and West Virginia and Elk Ridge Mountain to the ...