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The Waltons is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural mountainous Western Virginia of the Appalachian Mountains / Allegheny Mountains / Blue Ridge Mountains chain, during the economic hardships and mass unemployment of the era of the Great Depression of the 1930s and subsequent wartime homefront of World War II of the early 1940s.
It is the location of Walton's Mountain, made famous by the television show The Waltons. Nelson County is also home to 12 wineries and vineyards, seven craft breweries, three cideries, three distilleries, six fruit orchards as well as Crabtree Falls and White Rock Falls. Nelson County offers The Quarry Gardens, Pharsalia, and the local library ...
Rockfish Post Office in Rockfish, Virginia. Rockfish is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States. [1]Looking North at the Old Rockfish Post Office and the intersection of Rt 617 and Norfolk Southern Railroad Flood damage in the Rockfish area after the passage of Hurricane Camille
The Southwest Mountains of Virginia are a mountain range centered on Charlottesville, parallel to and geologically associated with the Blue Ridge Mountains, which lie about 30 miles (50 km) to the west. [3] The range is breached by the Rivanna River between Monticello and Pantops Mountain.
Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (July 10, 1923 – March 24, 2016) was an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s as the creator of two long-running series, The Waltons and Falcon Crest.
Schuyler (/ ˈ s k aɪ l ər / SKY-lur) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Nelson County, Virginia, (Eastern United States), close to Scottsville and Charlottesville, Virginia. [1] The population as of the 2010 U.S. D inecennial Census was 298. [2]
The Walton dynasty . Sam Walton founded Walmart in 1962 and Sam’s Club in 1983. His model was “low prices and great services,” as inspired by the dime store he once owned, according to ...
Marmaduke Ephram ("Ep") Bridges (in the pilot, David Huddleston, 1930–2016 was the first sheriff; in the series, longtime earlier Western films and television character actor John Crawford, 1920–2010) is the Sheriff of fictional Jefferson County, Virginia, keeper of the peace in Walton's Mountain, the nearby county seat town of Rockfish and ...