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The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands range. The mountain range is located in the Eastern United States and extends 550 miles southwest from southern Pennsylvania through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. [1]
Holston Mountain is a mountain ridge in Upper East Tennessee and southwest Virginia, in the United States. It is in the Blue Ridge Mountains part of the Appalachian Mountains . Holston Mountain is a very prominent ridge -type mountain in Tennessee's Ridge and Valley Region, about 28 miles (45 km) long, running from southwest to northeast ...
Chilhowee Mountain is the name of two non-contiguous ridges in the U.S. state of Tennessee.The ridges run in a northeastern to southwestern direction. The northern section is at the outer edge of the Great Smoky Mountains, stretching from the Little Pigeon River watershed at the northeast to the Little Tennessee River and Chilhowee Dam to the southwest.
This range is characterized by towering mountains and jumbled terrains, and is divided into several subranges, namely the Great Smoky Mountains, the Bald Mountains, the Unicoi Mountains, the Unaka Mountains, and the Iron Mountains. The average elevation of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Tennessee is 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level.
Clearcut logging in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Tennessee in 1936. Innovations in logging railroads and band saw technology in the late 19th century made large-scale logging possible in the mountainous areas of southern Appalachia. The largest logging operation in the Smokies was the Little River Lumber Company, which logged the Little River ...
Blue Ridge Mountains (7 C, 93 P) G. ... Pages in category "Mountain ranges of Tennessee" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Blue Mountain in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania's ridge country seen from Clarks Knob in Franklin County, Pennsylvania A few major rivers, including the Delaware River , the Susquehanna River , the New River , and the Potomac River , are older than the present mountains, having cut water gaps that are perpendicular to ...
The Blue Ridge Mountains as seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway near Mount Mitchell. The following is a list of mountains constituting the Blue Ridge, a mountain range stretching about 450 miles from Pennsylvania to Georgia in the USA. The Blue Ridge is part of the larger Appalachian Mountain Range.