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The origin of the name Shenandoah is much debated. One theory holds that Shenandoah received its name from an Indian word meaning 'sprucy stream' or 'river flowing alongside high hills and mountains'. [citation needed] Another origin theory is that the town was named after the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
Shenandoah County, Virginia, a county in the state of Virginia; Shenandoah River, a river in Virginia and West Virginia; Shenandoah Valley, the valley through which the aforementioned river runs; Shenandoah Valley AVA, an American Viticultural Area in Virginia and West Virginia; Shenandoah Mountain, a mountain ridge in Virginia and West Virginia
Skenandoa's name is variously recorded; "Shenandoah" has become the most famous form, used in many versions of the folk song "O Shenandoah", where the words "O Shenandoah, I love your daughter" and "The chief disdained the trader's dollars: / 'My daughter never you shall follow'" are found.
A U.S. school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, will vote on Thursday on whether to restore previously removed Confederate names to two schools, potentially becoming the first community in the ...
Moonlight on the Shenandoah, engraving by J.D. Woodward [12] Various accounts tell the origin of the name. According to one, General George Washington named the valley (and river) in honor of Skenandoa (or Shenandoah), an Oneida "pine tree chief" based in New York, who led hundreds of Oneida and Tuscarora warriors in support of the American ...
The only thing that remains is the aura of the "good old days." In 1890, the town name was changed from Milnes to Shenandoah City by an Act of the General Assembly. Since this time, the town has parted with the City portion of the name. The year of 1890 also was the year of another great "Boom" as Shenandoah experienced a period of rapid growth.
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...
The Shenandoah Valley serves as the setting for the 1965 film Shenandoah and its 1974 musical adaptation. Both stories follow the Anderson family during the Civil War. An associated song by James Stewart titled "The Legend of Shenandoah" was a very minor hit in 1965, reaching #133 on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart.