Definitions
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- noun a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
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Examples
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Jackson had considered that question and decided that the vicinity of Swift Run Gap in the Blue Ridge was a desirable point of concentration.
Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971
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Perhaps the most famous part of the Valley and Ridge Region west of the Blue Ridge is the Shenandoah Valley.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] SamuelC 2010
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Perhaps the most famous part of the Valley and Ridge Region west of the Blue Ridge is the Shenandoah Valley.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The "Blue Ridge" route was intended as a railroad into Kentucky and Tennessee, running across the southern end of the Blue Ridge, in South Carolina, which latter State and the city of Charleston owned nearly all the stock in the road up to 1871.
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The first day the party covered forty miles on horseback, and the next day it crossed the Blue Ridge to the Shenandoah River.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Two days after Dickens' death on April 22, the Atlanta-based, five piece Roxie Watson Band took the stage in Blue Ridge, GA and offered a second-set tribute of an original song dedicated to coal miners, the poor, the dispossessed, and the working women that Dickens so passionately championed.
Georgianne Nienaber: Atlanta's Roxie Watson Band Honors Bluegrass Legend Hazel Dickens Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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The Blue Ridge, an amphibious command ship in Singapore, took on relief supplies to begin heading toward Japan on Saturday morning, Cole said.
U.S. sends aid to Japan, reacts to deadly quake, tsunami 2011
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An alternative would have been to abandon the frontier and guard the passes through the Blue Ridge.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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An alternative would have been to abandon the frontier and guard the passes through the Blue Ridge.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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When one was raided, its neighbors fled over the Blue Ridge to the east.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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