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The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia is the biggest open air museum in the Shenandoah Valley.The museum operates on 188 acres of land in Staunton, Virginia, [1] which includes approximately 1.8 miles of paved walking trails.
In Fairfax County, 4% percent of residents are of Indian and Korean descent respectively, 3% Chinese and Vietnamese respectively, and communities of Pakistani (1%), Filipino (1-2%) have smaller but great presence in areas of the county. Cambodian, Laotian, Tibetan and Thai also have communities in Northern VA.
Fairfax, Virginia, mayor Robert Lederer has made a recent annual tradition of dining at the 29 Diner on Thanksgiving. John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted, made a visit to the diner in 1999 with two bodyguards. Bill Griffith featured 29 Diner in the July 23, 2003, and April 21, 2012, installments of Zippy the Pinhead.
Fairfax County, Virginia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Arlington, Virginia are the largest jurisdictions with high concentrations of Asian Americans in the region: Fairfax County. Korean – 3%; Indian – 3%; Vietnamese – 3%; Chinese – 2%; Filipino – 1%; Montgomery County. Chinese – 3%; Indian – 3%; Korean – 2%; Vietnamese ...
"An archeological survey, conducted in 1991, confirmed that there is at least one extensive Late Woodland Period (AD 800-1600) prehistoric Indian village located on the farm. The investigation resulted in the recovery of hundreds of artifacts including weapons, stone tools and lithic debris from tool manufacture, fragments of aboriginal clay ...
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A 1669 Virginia Indian census said they had two villages and 50 fighting men, [10] for an estimated total of 180 Meherrin. [11] By 1675, they had absorbed Susquehanna refugees fleeing Pennsylvania. [1] In 1681 they moved south to the banks of the Meherrin River. [9]
After thousands of years of different Indigenous cultures in present-day Virginia, the Manahoac and other Piedmont tribes developed from the precontact Woodland cultures. Historically the Siouan-speaking tribes occupied more of the Piedmont area, and the Algonquian-speaking tribes inhabited the lowlands and Tidewater.