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    Thornton Gap is a wind gap located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia separating the Shenandoah Valley from the Piedmont region of the state. Thornton...
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    Rockfish Gap, where the road continues south as the Blue Ridge Parkway. The road has intermediate interchanges with US 211 in Thornton Gap and US 33...
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    National Park, Virginia, United States. The peak is just south of the Thornton Gap Entrance of the park, and north of the taller Pinnacle. Mary's Rock is...
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  • Notch 872508 Pinkham's Grant Sandwich Notch 872624 Sandwich Thornton Gap 872811 between Thornton and Waterville Valley Trident Pass 872830 Success Willard...
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    Blue Ridge mountains and, via U.S. Route 211, provides access to the Thornton Gap entrance of Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive. Popular nearby...
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    the Piedmont region with the Great Valley, include Thornton Gap, Swift Run Gap, and Rockfish Gap. Another series of mountains bounds the southern Great...
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    The Thornton River is a 27.9-mile-long (44.9 km) river in the U.S. state of Virginia. It rises at Thornton Gap in Shenandoah National Park and flows east...
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    summit at Thornton Gap, where the highway has an interchange with Skyline Drive and enters Rappahannock County. US 211 follows the Thornton River as a...
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    Swatara Gap – Pennsylvania Swift Run Gap – Virginia Thornton Gap – Virginia Thoroughfare Gap – Virginia Wilson Gap – Virginia, West Virginia Zealand Notch...
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    located in the western part of Luray Luray is the nearest town to the Thornton Gap entrance to Skyline Drive (to the east), as well as serving as the headquarters...
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  • General Patrick Henry Brittan was born in Thornton Gap, Virginia on September 21, 1815. He learned printing in Washington, D.C. and then migrated to Columbus...
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    Depression, and part of the area is now referred to as "Beahm's Gap Overlook" in Thornton Gap. Beahm Lane in Page County is named for the area. Former counties...
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    the Shenandoah National Park (SNP) in the United States, located at Thornton Gap. Like Skyland Resort and Little Switzerland, it was one of many private...
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  • Route 522 Elkwallow Gap, elevation 2,455 feet on Skyline Drive Thornton Gap, elevation 2,460 feet, on U.S. Route 211 Hughes River Gap north of Little Stony...
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    cavalry—up and down the Valley and through various mountain gaps, such as Swift Run Gap and Thornton Gap, and make sudden appearances in front of Union troops...
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    maintained for winter travel), which runs from the northern tip of Thornton through Thornton Gap to Waterville Valley, crosses the southwest corner of the township...
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    William Forest Park Bayville was in Princess Anne County Beahm near Thornton Gap became part of Shenandoah National Park Begonia was located at the intersection...
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    211 cuts east–west across the valley from Thornton Gap in the Blue Ridge, through Luray to New Market Gap in the Massanutten. During the American Civil...
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    211's ascent of the Blue Ridge and access to Shenandoah National Park at Thornton Gap. US 522 runs concurrently with US 211 northeast along four-lane divided...
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    of William, looking up at Mary's Rock, at the old family cemetery in Thornton Gap; placed there in 1930, after the elder Barbee's remains had been moved...
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    terminus Page Thornton Gap 31.5 50.7 US 211 – Washington, DC, Luray Thornton Gap Entrance Station, interchange Rockingham Swift Run Gap 65.5 105.4 US 33 –...
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    on the book cover of the 2007 edition as writing: "Thornton's book... arrives to fill an enormous gap, and it does so splendidly...This is an excellent...
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    tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Virginia Thornton Gap, VA (Map). TopoQwest (United States Geological Survey Maps). Retrieved...
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  • Ang Christou over a two-year period saw a major gap left in the Carlton defence, and the young Thornton quickly found himself forced to try to fill that...
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    Jackson Foot Cavalry Division". Blue Ridge Tunnel Rockfish Gap Swift Run Gap Thornton Gap Mason, Frank H. The Twelfth Ohio Cavalry: A Record of Its Organization...
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    rises on the northern slopes of Mount Tecumseh, and drops northeast into Thornton Gap, between Mount Tecumseh and Mount Osceola, two major summits of the White...
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  • Ilsley US 41 in Earlington KY 113 KY 805 at Kona Millenium Road near Thornton Gap KY 114 US 460 southeast of Salyersville KY 1428 in Prestonsburg KY 115...
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    Mountain pass (redirect from Gap (geology))
    or created by erosion from water or wind. Mountain passes make use of a gap, saddle, col or notch. A topographic saddle is analogous to the mathematical...
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  • Sarah L. Thornton (born 1965) is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture. Thornton has authored four books and many articles about artists,...
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    Beech Spring on Route 211 west of Sperryville and north and south of Thornton's Gap at the top of the Blue Ridge. These provided work for local men and...
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