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    Shenandoah Valley three years later. Mass German migration to the Shenandoah Valley and Northern Virginia began soon after 1725. While most Germans came...
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    The Shenandoah River /ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə/ is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 miles (89.5 km) long with two forks approximately 100 miles (160 km)...
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    The Shenandoah Valley (/ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə/) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the...
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    Shenandoah County (formerly Dunmore County) is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was...
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    Pennsylvania, Upstate New York, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia attracted Germans. Most were Lutheran or German Reformed; many belonged to small religious...
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    Shenandoah is a borough in Schuylkill County in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania. It is distinct from Shenandoah Heights, which is part of West Mahanoy...
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    Woodstock, Virginia (category Towns in Shenandoah County, Virginia)
    Shenandoah County since Shenandoah County's formation in 1772. The Shenandoah Valley region surrounding Woodstock was settled by Pennsylvania Germans...
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    USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships. It was constructed during 1922–1923 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, and first flew...
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    Adam Miller (pioneer) (category German emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies)
    the first permanent white settler in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, US. Born in 1703 in Schriesheim, Germany, Miller immigrated to America as a young...
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    Texas Germans (German: Texas-Deutsche) are descendants of Germans who settled in Texas since the 1830s. The arriving Germans tended to cluster in ethnic...
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    Battle of New Market (category Shenandoah County in the American Civil War)
    makeshift Confederate army of 4,100 men defeated the larger Army of the Shenandoah under Major General Franz Sigel, delaying the capture of Staunton by several...
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    The Shenandoah is a three-masted schooner with a steel hull, built in New York in 1902 as a private yacht for the American financier Gibson Fahnestock...
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  • Shenandoah Valley Academy (SVA) is a private, co-educational, boarding, high school in New Market, Virginia, United States. It has both boarding and day...
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    1845. In 1848, the first large group of Germans immigrated due to failed revolts in German states. The Germans arriving on or soon after that year became...
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    "Dutchlanders", compare German: Deutschländer), which translates to "European Germans", whom they saw as a distinct group. These European Germans immigrated to...
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    The Shenandoah Harmony is a 2013 republication of the works of Ananias Davisson (1780–1857) and other composers of his era, in the format used by modern...
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  • The German River is the principal tributary of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, flowing for 14.7 miles (23.7 km) in the U.S. state of Virginia...
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  • of inappropriate conduct with female employees at the network. 15 The Shenandoah Valley Educational TV Corporation announces it will donate the licenses...
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  • Staunton and on the road. The American Shakespeare Center was founded as the Shenandoah Shakespeare EXPRESS in 1988 by Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen and Jim Warren. The...
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    by General Robert E. Lee and concluded with the surrender of the CSS Shenandoah on November 6, 1865, bringing the hostilities of the American Civil War...
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  • Skenandoa (redirect from John Shenandoah)
    John Skenandoa (/ˌskɛnənˈdoʊə/; c. 1706 – March 11, 1816), also called Shenandoah (/ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə/) among other forms, was an elected chief (a so-called "pine...
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    Abraham Beydler House (category Houses in Shenandoah County, Virginia)
    also known as Valhalla Farm, is a historic home located near Maurertown, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built about 1800, and is a two-story, six room...
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  • Leon Shenandoah[1] (May 18, 1915 – July 22, 1996) was an Onondaga politician who headed the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy from 1968[2] to his death...
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    Blue Ridge Mountains (category Shenandoah River)
    color. Within the Blue Ridge province are two major national parks: the Shenandoah National Park in the northern section and the Great Smoky Mountains National...
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    combined statistical area. Winchester is home to Shenandoah University and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. Indigenous peoples lived along the waterways...
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  • Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Review is a literary magazine published by Washington and Lee University. Originally a student-run quarterly, Shenandoah...
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    Fort Valley (Virginia) (category Landforms of Shenandoah County, Virginia)
    Fort Valley is a mountain valley located primarily in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It is often called "valley within a valley" as it lies between the two...
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    movies such as Chisum with John Wayne, as one of Jimmy Stewart's sons in Shenandoah, and the World War II epic Midway. An American lead and supporting actor...
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    of the British R38, the US airship Roma, the French Dixmude, the USS Shenandoah, the British R101, and the USS Akron. The Zeppelin Company had proposed...
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    576 537 Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area Shenandoah 44,186 512 Smyth 29,800 452 Southampton 17,996 600 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport...
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