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Old Mountain Homesite

Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia
· George Washington National Forest
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Much of the Blueridge area was settled in the early 1700’s and cleared for agricultural purposes, but the land was not economically suited for small farms, and these farms were abandoned in the 1860’s with the opening of western lands and the Civil War.
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Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia
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