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Well, this USED to be Virginia.
A mile and a half from here it still is.
What fresh Hell is this?
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Deadlines and commitments, what to leave in, what to leave out...
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Well I live in Oregon....
but I think most of you boys mentioned most of the places that many of my relatives
live...
17th generation Virginian....military dependent but pretty much grew up with that as our home state...
graduated high school in 1970 from West Springfield High, Fairfax County...
left and went to college in New England... then the military for a while...
when it came time to go home, home wasn't the Virginia I grew up in... certainly
not Fairfax County...
family roots are pretty much up and down the Shenandoah Valley...from
Winchester to Bristol... plus across the WVa state line... but back when it was still VA..
Raleigh, Greenbriar, Monroe and Mercer Counties...WVa
Roanoke Christianburg, Blacksburg, Wytheville area of VA is where most of the family still hangs their
hats...
Left VA for college, the population was 4 million folks.. now its buzzing 11 million as I hear and saw
the last time I was back there last year....
not only a bunch of transplanted Yankee types.. where in the hell did all of those foreigners come from???
I miss what was a wonderful state, and still is in spots....but they are getting invaded also by all of the
transplants....
I live out here and put up with the Left Coast wacko-ness... for the mountains and open spaces....
and being on the coast...
hell I knew the invasion is in full swing, when I witnessed a Porsche with West Virginia plates
in Monroe County, driven by some guy from India... was told he owned a local 7 11 or two...
there goes the neighborhood...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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I'm from Virginia. Left Culpeper in 1966, and only been back for reunions. Was in Burke's Garden until about age 6.
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Just wondering who here is from Virginia.
I'm down south west of Petersburg.. Some of my roots go pretty deep in Virginia. Mom was born and raised there. Her mom and dad moved to Danville, VA, back in the Nineteen-Teens or early Twenties from Northern Georgia, up in the Blue Ridge Mountains region where they both had deep family roots. The house my mom grew up in is still owned by family (her sister's children - my cousins - still jointly own it).
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FJB & FJT
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Wondering...wandering....
Been in Montgomery County for 51 of my 53 years
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Rockbridge and Carroll counties
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sherlock Holmes
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Shenandoah valley south of Winchester here as well. Bounced around most of NOVA for the last 30 years or so with a brief few years in Blacksburg.
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Rockingham Co. First relative in America arrived in Nov. of 1776, he's buried in Pendleton co. VA., Now W.Va. in fort Seybert.
Hessian that was convinced to switch sides with a land grant if the story's correct. So roughly 10th generation Virginian.
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my family circa 1770 or so ended up i think mainly in the montgomery area, on the run from the british and a sedition order against a member that didn't get along with the british. Suppose to be a place within a few minutes of roanoke called weddle's mountain, and a cemetary full of them. there are still extended members with the same last name living in the area.
THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO
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Born in Radford, grew up on Claytor Lake. Graduated from Radford University. Living in Charlotte now but bought a place in Carrol County to retire to. Haven't lived there in 17 years but still call Va home. The mountainous part. Don't know anything about NOVA or Tidewater. Don't think it should be considered Va.
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From VA originally but moved away in 1992. Might move back one of these days. Went to school in Harrisonburg and spent a lot of time west and southwest of there, screwing around, hunting and fishing in the mtns. Been back a few times to hunt and visit, our youngest went to VA Tech and met a girl from Pulaski so we'll have relatives there soon.
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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From VA originally but moved away in 1992. Might move back one of these days. Went to school in Harrisonburg and spent a lot of time west and southwest of there, screwing around, hunting and fishing in the mtns. Been back a few times to hunt and visit, our youngest went to VA Tech and met a girl from Pulaski so we'll have relatives there soon. Went to Pulaski County High School. Might know her
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The Wades. I think her grandpa was mayor at one time.
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Wades grocery store use to be the only grocery store in Dublin until Walmart moved in.
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