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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Skyline Drive (section Thornton Gap to Swift Run Gap)
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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