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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.
It is located between Kearneysville, WV and Charles Town, WV off WV 9. Shenandoah Junction is home to Jefferson High School and West Virginia's oldest surviving wood-frame structure, the Peter Burr House, built around 1751. The land where Shenandoah Junction was built was part of the 392 acres (1.59 km 2) granted by Lord Fairfax to Lewis Neil ...
The Shenandoah River / ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə / is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 miles (89.5 km) long with two forks approximately 100 miles (160 km) long each, [3] in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia.
Shenandoah, Virginia, a town in the state of 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
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Berkeley County is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the eastern panhandle region of West Virginia in the United States. The county is part of the Hagerstown–Martinsburg metropolitan area . As of the 2020 census , the county population was 122,076, [ 5 ] making it the second-most populous of West Virginia's 55 counties, behind Kanawha County .
Shenandoah Mountain is a mountain ridge approximately 73 miles (117 km) long [3] in Virginia and West Virginia. The steep, narrow, sandstone-capped ridge extends from northern Bath County, Virginia to southern Hardy County, West Virginia .
In 1727, Adam Miller became the first white settler in the Shenandoah Valley. Miller was a Mennonite born in Schriesheim, Germany, who immigrated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1724 and reached the Shenandoah Valley three years later. [6] Mass German migration to the Shenandoah Valley and Northern Virginia began soon after 1725