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Home > Art, Film & Photography > Mountain Passes of Virginia: Cumberland Gap, Rockfish Gap, List of Gaps of Virginia, Swift Run Gap, Ashby Gap, Snickers Gap, Thornton Gap
Mountain Passes of Virginia: Cumberland Gap, Rockfish Gap, List of Gaps of Virginia, Swift Run Gap, Ashby Gap, Snickers Gap, Thornton Gap

Mountain Passes of Virginia: Cumberland Gap, Rockfish Gap, List of Gaps of Virginia, Swift Run Gap, Ashby Gap, Snickers Gap, Thornton Gap


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cumberland Gap, Rockfish Gap, List of Gaps of Virginia, Swift Run Gap, Ashby Gap, Snickers Gap, Thornton Gap, Fishers Gap, Clarke's Gap, Goshen Pass, Keyes Gap, Manassas Gap, Chester Gap, Hillsboro Gap, Wilson Gap, Buford's Gap, New Market Gap, Moccasin Gap. Excerpt: Ashby's Gap Ashby Gap, more commonly known as Ashby's Gap is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountain on the border of Clarke County, Loudoun County and Fauquier County in Virginia . The gap is traversed by U.S. Route 50 . The Appalachian trail also passes across the gap. Geography At 1,030 feet (310 m) the gap is 500 ft below the adjacent ridge line to the north, and 700 ft above the Shenandoah River, which runs north, west of the gap. To the west lies Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley and to the east lies Virginia's Piedmont region. Just south of this gap is Sky Meadows State Park . The gap serves as the western demarcation point for the border between Fauquier and Loudoun, originally marked by a "double-bodied poplar tree standing in or near the middle of the thoroughfare of Ashby's Gap on the top of the Blue Ridge." The tree has since died and the thoroughfare, modern day U.S. Route 50, realigned to the south so that Loudoun County is not entered when traveling through the gap. History The earliest known use of the gap was as part of a trail of the Native Americans . Upon European colonization, the gap was first referred to as the "Upper Thoroughfare of the Blue Ridge." It was later named "Ashby's Bent" when Thomas Ashby received lands along Goose Creek, and settled Paris, Virginia at the eastern entrance to the gap (shown in photo). Later it came to be called Ashby's Gap. In the early 1800s the Ashby's Gap Turnpike was completed from Aldie to the crest of the gap whe...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155226613
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Cumberland Gap, Rockfish Gap, List of Gaps of Virginia, Swift Run Gap, Ashby Gap, Snickers Gap, Thornton Gap
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155226615
  • Publisher Date: 02 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 95 gr


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