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Appalachia was formerly home to three railroad companies. The "big three" were the Southern Railway, Louisville & Nashville, and the Interstate Railroad. As of 2022, the Norfolk Southern Railroad is the only operating line through Appalachia, hauling only coal and the occasional ammonium nitrate and limestone aggregate product. These hoppers ...
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), and other early 20th-century novels of John Fox Jr., set in the Appalachian town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, and surrounding areas, gave readers an image of
The 3-year average unemployment rate for the Appalachian region in 2006-2008 was 5.2%. The region's per capita market income in 2007 was $24,360. The region's poverty rate was 13.6%. [1] Alabama's Appalachian counties led all states' Appalachian counties in unemployment (3.8%) and per capita market income ($27,723).
The surface coal mining that started in the 1940s has significantly impacted the central Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Early mining methods were unregulated and mined land reclamation research, including acid base reaction , was led by the West Virginia University in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ridges and valleys near Norton, Virginia in Wise County, Virginia A map of the Cumberland Plateau and Ridge and Valley Appalachians on the border between Virginia and West Virginia An aerial view Massanutten Mountain, including the south fork of the Shenandoah River (on left) and part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia
"Under Appalachia’s current subregional configuration, the Appalachian counties of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Ohio, along with most of West Virginia, comprise northern Appalachia. Included among the counties in central Appalachia are the Mountaineer State’s nine southernmost counties, as well as eastern Kentucky, Virginia’s ...
Lee County is one of the 423 counties served by the Appalachian Regional Commission, [6] and it is identified as part of "Greater Appalachia" by Colin Woodard in his book American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. [7] All of Lee County lies longitudinally west of West Virginia.
Blue Ridge Mountains - Front Royal, Virginia Although the term "Blue Ridge" is sometimes applied exclusively to the eastern edge or front range of the Appalachian Mountains, the geological definition of the Blue Ridge province extends westward to the Ridge and Valley area, encompassing the Great Smoky Mountains, the Great Balsams, the Roans, the Blacks, and other mountain ranges.