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U.S. Route 33 is an east–west road which extends from a mountain ridge border with West Virginia across the Shenandoah Valley through Harrisonburg and Elkton. East of there, it climbs the western slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains to reach Swift Run Gap , a wind gap located at an elevation of 2,365 feet (721 m).
Blue Ridge Community College (BRCC) is a community college located in Weyers Cave, Virginia in Augusta County. The school was founded in 1967 and is a part of the Virginia Community College System and serves students from the cities of Harrisonburg , Staunton , and Waynesboro, Virginia , and the counties of Augusta, Highland and Rockingham .
Harrisonburg was named for Thomas Harrison (1704–1785), an early settler. [20]The earliest documented English exploration of the area prior to settlement was the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition, led by Lt. Gov. Alexander Spotswood, who reached Elkton, and whose rangers continued and in 1716 likely passed through what is now Harrisonburg.
Oak trees produce a haze of isoprene, which helps give the Blue Ridge Mountains their signature color. [ 151 ] As of 2019 [update] , roughly 16.2% of land in the Commonwealth is protected by federal, state, and local governments and non-profits. [ 152 ]
The Blue Ridge Farmhouse was designed in 1933-1934 by Washington, D.C. architect Waddy B. Wood. Californian Henry T. Oxnard (1860-1922) built a horse breeding operation at Blue Ridge Farm in 1903. Purchased by Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson in 1928, members of the Grayson family still own the property.
The Blue Ridge District only had four members starting in the 2007–2008 school year when William Fleming returned to Group AAA, but it grew to five members starting in the 2009–2010 school year when former member Staunton River returned from the AA Seminole District and to six members in the 2010–2011 school year when former member ...
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The Fox affiliation currently seen on WSVF-CD began on October 26, 2006 with the launch of WHSV-DT2, a standard definition subchannel of WHSV-TV. [2] The subchannel's launch gave the Shenandoah Valley its first full-time Fox affiliate; until then, WTTG, the Fox owned-and-operated station in Washington, D.C., served as the area's default Fox affiliate, though WHSV was a secondary Fox affiliate ...