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Fifty miles south of Washington, D.C
- Located fifty miles south of Washington, D.C., on the fall line of the Rappahannock River, Fredericksburg, since its establishment in the 1720s, has been an important commercial junction for river traffic (steamboats lasted until the 1940s), turnpikes, railroads, and, more recently, the automobile.
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The natural geologic barrier to shipping delayed European settlement of the Piedmont and shaped the location of major Virginia's cities, including Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Richmond, and Petersburg.
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An exploration of the fall line and its cultural significance and impact on the landscape in Virginia.
The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a 900-mile (1,400 km) escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States. Much of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line passes through areas where no evidence of faulting is present.
- 900 mi (1,400 km)
- United States
The initiative and speed of Alexandria merchants to connect to agricultural regions in the Rappahannock and Shenandoah watersheds drew agricultural trade from the backcountry to the Fall Line on the Potomac River, rather than to Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock River.
Cities such as Fredericksburg and Richmond developed as natural intersections of trade and travel. Another reason towns formed along the Fall Line rivers was to harness the power of the falls. Industries such as mills that depended on waterpower grew around the valuable rapids.
