Shenandoah

[shen-uhn-doh-uh]

noun

1. a river flowing NE from N Virginia to the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. About 200 miles (322 km) long.

2. a valley in N Virginia, between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains: Civil War campaigns 1862–64.

Example Sentences

He was also involved in fighting scenes in the 1965 film Shenandoah, which was set during the US Civil War, a bar brawl in the 1974 Western comedy Blazing Saddles and impressive fire scenes in The Towering Inferno, which was released the same year.

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Francis worked for the parks system for 41 years, including stints at Yosemite and Shenandoah National Park, before retiring as superintendent of the Blue Ridge Parkway in 2013.

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Carter are starting their senior year of high school in Shenandoah County on Tuesday.

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Shenandoah County's school district is the first in the nation to do so, restoring the names of both Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary, named after Confederate generals, Robert E Lee and Turner Ashby.

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His father, Jim Seales, played guitar for Shenandoah, a Grammy Award-winning country act with a string of No. 1 hits in the 1980 and ’90s.

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