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The Appalachian region was largely settled in the 18th century by the Scotch-Irish, the majority of whom originated in the lowlands of Scotland.
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Adjoining the Cumberland Plateau region on the southeast is the Appalachian Valley ( locally known as Coosa Valley ) region, which is the southern extremity of the Appalachian Mountains, and occupies an area within the state of about.
Southeast of the Appalachian Valley region, the Piedmont Plateau also crosses the Alabama border from the N. E.
In the Appalachian Valley region the Coosa River is the principal river ; and in the Piedmont Plateau, the Tallapoosa River.
Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.
They would have traveled overland down through the Appalachian Mountains to the Scots-Irish community in the Waxhaws region, straddling the border between North and South Carolina.
The Appalachian Basin continued to be the leading oil-producing region in the United States through 1904.
Harkins theorizes that use of the term outside the Appalachians arose in the years after the American Civil War, when the Appalachian region became increasingly bypassed by technological and social changes taking place in the rest of the country.
Beginning in the Ordovician Period, mountain building intermittently proceeded in the eastern part of the Appalachian region throughout the rest of the era, bringing in new sediments.
Today, a breakfast of buttermilk biscuits and sausage gravy is common throughout the region, as well as places Appalachian people have migrated.
The highest concentration of these is found in the Appalachian Mountains region.
The Ridge and Valley region is west of the mountains, and includes the Great Appalachian Valley.
About 75 % of the college's incoming class is drawn from the Appalachian region of the South and some adjoining areas, and about 8 % are international students.
Some of the work-study has helped to extend and support practice of traditional crafts from the Appalachian region, such as weaving.
The Hutchins Library maintains an extensive collection of books, archives, and music pertaining to the history and culture of the Southern Appalachian region.
A number of counties in the Appalachian region of the US are named Allegany, Allegheny, or Alleghany.
The western part of the county contains a portion of the steep Allegheny Front, which marks the transition to the higher-elevation Appalachian Plateau and Allegheny Mountain region.
Bluegrass, as a distinct musical form, developed from elements of old-time music and traditional music of the Appalachian region of the United States.
The Appalachian region was where many English and Ulster-Scots immigrants settled, bringing with them the musical traditions of their homelands.
It featured music, dance, and theater derived from the Appalachian region.
Two former members of the Appalachian Green Parks Project, Jim McGaw and Charlie Lewis began performing with Jimmy Prouty and went on to form the New Vinton County Frogwhompers Marching, Singing, Strumming and Plucking Society in 1976, which was to become one of the most popular groups to come out of the region in the 1970s.
Located in the Appalachian region of the United States, Grayson County has long been famous for its traditional, or " old-time " music and musicians.
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For example, Jean Ritchie ( born in 1922 ) was the youngest child of a large family from Viper, Kentucky that had preserved many of the old Appalachian traditional songs.
The success of the Drake well quickly led to oil drilling in other locations in the western Appalachian mountains, where oil was seeping to the surface, or where salt drillers had previously found oil fouling their salt wells.
By the late forties, radio stations broadcast music described as " hillbilly ," originally to describe fiddlers and string bands, but was then used to describe the traditional music of the people of the Appalachian Mountains.
Simcoe's first priority was dealing with the effects of the Northwest Indian War, in which American Indians warred with the United States over encroachment in their territory west of the Appalachian Mountains.
New Orleans was already important for shipping agricultural goods to and from the parts of the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains.
This provided a much-needed export route for goods from the west, since the trek east over the Appalachian Mountains was long and arduous.
The canal's purpose was to connect the city of Cincinnati to Lake Erie because at that time no highways existed in the state and it was thus very difficult for goods produced locally to reach the larger markets east of the Appalachian Mountains.
Included in its provisions was the reservation of lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to its Indian population, a demarcation that was at best a temporary impediment to a rising tide of westward-bound settlers.
At the time of the canal's construction, Montgomery County was the only place where there was a break in the Appalachian Mountains.
He was assigned to a minor league team in the Appalachian League called the Marion Mets in Marion, Virginia.
This system was used in June 1978 to record Aaron Copland's " Appalachian Spring " by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
The total number of chestnut trees in eastern North America was estimated at over three billion, and 25 % of the trees in the Appalachian Mountains were American chestnut.
In some places such as the Appalachian Mountains, it is estimated that one in every four hardwoods was an American chestnut.
The SEC was established on December 8 and 9, 1932, when the thirteen members of the Southern Conference located west and south of the Appalachian Mountains left to form their own conference.
Although the Treaty of Holston, signed in 1791, was intended as a negotiation with the Cherokee to prohibit settlement of the area including what is today Anderson County, the treaty became ineffective as more settlers moved through the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia and North Carolina into Tennessee.
Guernsey County, located in the Appalachian foothills, was first formed and organized in 1810 from portions of Muskingum and Belmont counties.
The chain of islands went over the North American plate, thus the Highlands were created from the island rock and so was the Great Appalachian Valley.
This was the final episode of the building of the Appalachian Mountains.
Upon his graduation from high school in June 1962, McLain was signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent and was assigned to play with the Harlan Smokies of the Appalachian League.
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Interstate 81 largely traces the paths created down the length of the Appalachian Mountains by migrating animals, American Indians, and early settlers.
In the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains as a whole, Baptists and Methodists largely outnumbered Presbyterians during the early nineteenth century.
Cooper's novels were largely set in what was at the time the American frontier, the Appalachian Mountains and areas west of there.
A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.
The song, written in 1848, was largely unknown outside of Shaker communities until Aaron Copland used the melody in his 1944 composition Appalachian Spring.
It is unique to Virginia in containing both Appalachian Plateau and Ridge and Valley topography ; although, it is largely a karstic landform of the Ridge and Valley Province.
While research has largely disproven these stereotypes, use of the Appalachian dialect is still often an impediment to educational and social advancement.
The song was largely unknown outside of Shaker communities until it became world famous thanks to its use in Aaron Copland's score for Martha Graham's ballet Appalachian Spring, first performed in 1944.
One is that the mostly transplanted poor Appalachian residents ( largely of Scots-Irish descent ) who worked in the nearby Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, would grow cabbages in the front yards of their shotgun houses, and one could distinctly smell the odor of cooking cabbage coming from the neighborhood.
In 1926, thanks largely to Tennessee Governor Austin Peay ( who owned a cottage at Elkmont ), a road was constructed connecting Townsend with both the Wonderland Club and Appalachian Club areas.
The Byers cabin — located south of Daisy Town in the Appalachian Club's Society Hill section, was also chosen for preservation, due largely to its association with early park promoter David Chapman.
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