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Article: Farms, industry back history's new houses.(FRIDAY HOME GUIDE)(FOCUS: VIRGINIA'S INTERSTATE 66 CORRIDOR AND FREDERICK COUNTY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 6, 2004
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Byline: Michele Lerner, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Since the 18th century, Frederick County, at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, has been a center for commerce and transportation.
Although Indians lived in the area and used the wilderness as a hunting ground for some 12,000 years, the first Europeans to explore the area were Jesuit missionaries who came through in 1632.
By the 1650s, traders, trappers and explorers were coming to the Shenandoah Valley. Englishmen began settling the piedmont and then traveled west on foot and by horse through passes in the Blue Ridge.
Settlers from Scotland, Germany and France ...