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44 Wisconsin. 45 Wyoming. 46 Interstate. ... Alliance Terminal Railroad: ATR ... Shenandoah Valley Railroad: SV Virginia Southern Railroad: VSRR
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
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.
View east along US 33 just after entering Virginia from West Virginia in Rockingham County. US 33 enters Virginia at about 3,450 feet (1,050 m) elevation at Dry River Gap on top of Shenandoah Mountain at the West Virginia state line, having climbed steeply from the community of Brandywine, West Virginia, in the valley of the South Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River.
Beginning around 1826, Crozet was given the formidable task of determining a potential route for a turnpike from Staunton in Augusta County in the Shenandoah Valley to Parkersburg in Wood County on the Ohio River. There was considerable interest among communities in the region between these points to be included along the route.
The railroad boosted Virginia commerce. Farmers from Virginia's Piedmont region, and later, the Shenandoah Valley could more cheaply ship their products, produce, and goods to the markets of Washington, D.C., and Richmond, and to ocean-going vessels berthed at the Potomac
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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