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Shenandoah River in Clarke and Warren counties.
“Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you. Away, you rolling river. ” — Song
The Shenandoah River, celebrated around campfires in thousands of sing-alongs, begins its 170-mile trip in Augusta County and winds its way through Rockingham, Page, Warren and Clarke before its rendezvous with the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry .
Born a small river with sudden turns and overhanging trees that drop their branches across the waterway, the Shenandoah widens into beauty in Page County. Clear and clean, it flows over a bed of rock interspersed by clumps of graceful, long growing grass that undulates in the currents.
The river winds in and out between the Blue Ridge and the Massanutten flanked by low banks that lead to farm fields, the mountains in the distance framing the scene. The Shenandoah slows as it passes through Clarke County, gathering energy for its meeting with the Potomac.
It tumbles over Bull Falls and White Horse Rapids before meeting its sister in a wild and deep gorge, mountains rising high above.
At Harpers Ferry and the confluence of the two rivers, history intrudes upon natural wonder. There John Brown was captured. There, Mosby and his Rangers launched a desperate unsuccessful raid against the garrison at Loudoun Heights. There, before the drama of the Civil War, settlers began their trip to the West. There, George Washington worked on the old dams that first made the river navigable.
Still as beautiful and unspoiled in spots today as it was when the Indians sent their canoes skimming over its waters^ the Shenandoah deserves the name they bestowed upon her; “Daughter of the Stars.”
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