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In the Dolly Sods area of West Virginia, and southward toward Mount Porte Crayon, the Front is topped for more than ten miles ( 16 km ) by a broad, nearly flat plateau with many wide areas of exposed bedrock along the edge of the escarpment's to 3, 200-foot ( 980 m ) drop to the North Fork River to the east, along the Front's base.
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File: Rocks-in-WV. jpg | Rock formation carved by high winds at Dolly Sods, West Virginia, USA.
The Alleghenies also include a number of federally-designated wilderness areas, such as the Dolly Sods Wilderness, Laurel Fork Wilderness, and Cranberry Wilderness in West Virginia.
Prominent beds of resistant conglomerate can be found in some areas, such as the Dolly Sods.
Certain isolated areas in the High Alleghenies are well known for their open expanses of sphagnum bogs and heath shrubs ( e. g., Dolly Sods, Cranberry Glades ).
Image: DollySods1. JPG | Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia: View from atop Breathed Mountain
Turning eastward from SR 28 at Judy Gap, US 33 crosses North Fork Mountain at about, with a turnout on the western slope offering a scenic view of the Germany Valley below and the more distant Allegheny Front from Spruce Knob to Dolly Sods.
The Brooks Bird Club ( BBC ) conducts an annual bird banding and survey project in the vicinity of Dolly Sods Scenic Area during migration ( August-September ).
* Dolly Sods Wilderness,
The crest of the Allegheny Front at about 4, 000 feet ( 1, 200 m ) elevation near Bear Rocks Preserve | Bear Rocks, Dolly Sods Wilderness | Dolly Sods, West Virginia, with wind-flagged spruce trees.
Other high points along the Front include Dan's Rock on Dans Mountain in Maryland at and the Dolly Sods area in West Virginia, a broad, rocky plateau at an elevation of about 4, 000 feet ( 1, 200 m ).
Dry Fork ( Cheat River ) | Red Creek west of the crest of the Allegheny Front in the Dolly Sods area of West Virgina ; the creek originates along the Eastern Continental Divide, with its waters flowing to the Gulf of Mexico as part of the Ohio River watershed.
South of the Potomac, in West Virginia, the Front continues through the Mount Storm area, then passes along the eastern edge of Dolly Sods, a wide plateau of Pottsville conglomerate bedrock at about 4, 000 feet ( 1, 200 m ) elevation.
From the Sods, the front continues southward as an increasingly steep escarpment west of the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River, with the Roaring Plains continuing the high plateaus of the Dolly Sods area along the escarpment's crest.
Pottsville conglomerate atop the Allegheny Front showing ventifact | ventifact ( wind ) etching, Bear Rocks, Dolly Sods Wilderness | Dolly Sods, West Virginia.
Many of these clifftops offer broad scenic views, unlike most mountaintops within the generally forested Appalachians, and the more readily accessible are popular tourist destinations, including Dan's Rock on Dans Mountain in Maryland and Dolly Sods and an overlook along U. S. 50 in West Virginia.
* Allegheny Front Migratory Observatory ( Bird Banding Station ) near the Red Creek Campground at Dolly Sods, West Virginia.
The Dolly Sods Wilderness — originally simply Dolly Sods — is a U. S. Wilderness Area in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA, and is part of the Monongahela National Forest ( MNF ) of the U. S. Forest Service ( USFS ).
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Dolly Parton began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television programs in the Eastern Tennessee area.
Dorothy, also known as Dollie or Dolly, was a doctor who tended the sick of the area and delivered babies.
The remnant circulation of Hurricane Dolly passed over the area and brought as much as 9 inches ( 23 cm ) of rainfall.
The area to the north, which included a subdivision called " Dolly Varden " ( named after a Charles Dickens character ), is now called Mana because the new Mana Railway Station a little further north was given that name ; probably because it is the first point on the rail journey north at which travellers get a view of Mana Island.
The historically notable Aboriginal woman Dolly Dalrymple was born in the area.
Shirley Collins and her older sister, Dolly, grew up in the Hastings area of East Sussex in a family which kept alive a great love of traditional song.
The highest point in the immediate area ( just outside the Dolly Sods Wilderness area in the Roaring Plains West Wilderness ) is Mount Porte Crayon at 4, 770 feet ( 1, 454 m ).
The present-day Dolly Sods Wilderness ( DSW ) encompasses some of USFS land and is itself only part of a larger area now known as " Dolly Sods ".
( Since the early 1970s it has been common practice to include the Red Creek Plains, Flatrock Plains and Roaring Plains areas to the south as part of the " greater " Dolly Sods area.
The surrounding area was recently added to the Wilderness and is known as Dolly Sods North ( the " High Sods ").
North of Dolly Sods North ( and just outside the present DSW ) is an area known as Dobbins Slashings — a sub-arctic bog forming the headwaters of Red Creek on Cabin Mountain.
The Dolly Sods area was first encountered by whites when Peter Jefferson, Thomas Lewis and others surveyed in 1746 to find the limits of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron ’ s land grant from the British Crown.
) Locals changed the spelling of Dahle to " Dolly " and thus one such area became known as Dolly Sods.
Local historian Hu Maxwell described the Dolly Sods area in the Wheeling Intelligencer in 1886: " The top of the mountain is flat, except here and there rugged ridges and huge promontories of rocks rising above the level of the plains, and giving the scene an appearance of distance and mystery that must be witnessed before it can be understood ".
The area surrounding Dolly Sods was formerly described as the best spruce-hemlock-black cherry forest in the world, with some enormous trees up to 12 feet in diameter.
The last timber was felled in the Dolly Sods area in 1924.
Dolly Sods finally became a federally-designated wilderness area in 1975 which resulted in greatly increased numbers of visitors.
Dolly and West
Atkins produced records for The Browns, Porter Wagoner, Norma Jean, Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings and many others.
Along with Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Barbara Mandrell, Dottie West, and Lynn Anderson, she helped redefine the role and place of female country singers.
* Brooks, Maurice, " Remarkable Dolly Sods " ( 1969 – 70 ), Outdoor West Virginia changed to Wonderful West Virginia, 1970 ; Nov 1969, pp 10 – 13 ; Jan 1970, pp 10 – 13 ; Feb 1970, pp 10 – 13.
( 1985 ), " The Birds of the Dolly Sods Area Sortie, 1984 ", The Redstart, Wheeling, West Virginia, October issue.
* Hutton, Eugene E. ( 1988 ), " Periglacial Features of Dolly Sods ,", The Redstart, Wheeling, West Virginia, July issue.
* Hutton, Eugene E. ( 1985 ), " Plant Description of Dolly Sods ,", The Redstart, Wheeling, West Virginia, October issue.
* Pyle, Ann H. ( 1985 ), " Ferns and Fern Allies at Dolly Sods ,", The Redstart, Wheeling, West Virginia, October issue.
* Venable, Norma Jean ( 1996 ), Dolly Sods, West Virginia Renewable Resources Unique Areas Series 813, West Virginia University Extension Service, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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