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  2. Museum of Appalachia - Wikipedia

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    Museum of Appalachia. The Museum of Appalachia, located in Norris, Tennessee, 20 miles (32 km) north of Knoxville, is a living history museum that interprets the pioneer and early 20th-century period of the Southern Appalachian region of the United States. Recently named an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum is a collection of ...

  3. Geology of the Appalachians - Wikipedia

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    Overview. The Appalachian Mountains formed through a series of mountain-building events over the last 1.2 billion years: [4][5] The Grenville orogeny began 1250 million years ago (Ma) and lasted for 270 million years. The Taconic orogeny began 450 Ma and lasted for 10 million years. The Acadian orogeny began 375 Ma and lasted 50 million years.

  4. Fort New Salem - Wikipedia

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    Governing body. Salem University. Fort New Salem is a frontier settlement of nineteenth century log structures located in Salem, Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, adjacent to Salem International University. Fort New Salem is a living history outdoor museum interpreting the history, crafts and lifestyles of the area.

  5. Crib barn - Wikipedia

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    The most popular type of crib barn built in the Appalachian states was also the simplest to construct considering its size and stability. The "Double Crib" consisted of two cribs separated by a breezeway and covered by the same roof. This type of barn is the most common in Appalachia. The doors in this type of crib barn face either front or in ...

  6. Corbin Cabin - Wikipedia

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    The Corbin Cabin is a log structure built by George T. Corbin in 1909 in the Nicholson Hollow area of what is now Shenandoah National Park. [ 3] Corbin was forced to vacate the land on which the cabin sits in 1938, when the land was added to Shenandoah National Park. [ 4] The cabin is unique in that it is one of a small number of buildings ...

  7. Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians - Wikipedia

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    Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians. The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands division. The physiographic province is divided into three sections: the Hudson Valley, the Central, and the Tennessee.

  8. Alleghanian orogeny - Wikipedia

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    The Alleghanian orogeny, a result of three separate continental collisions. USGS. The immense region involved in the continental collision, the vast temporal length of the orogeny, and the thickness of the pile of sediments and igneous rocks known to have been involved are evidence that at the peak of the mountain-building process, the Appalachians likely once reached elevations similar to ...

  9. Single- and double-pen architecture - Wikipedia

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    Single-pen architecture and double-pen architecture are architectural styles for design of log, and sometimes stone or brick pioneer houses found in the United States. A single pen is just one unit: a rectangle of four walls of a log cabin. In double pen architecture, two log pens are built and those are joined by a roof over a breezeway in ...

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