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4 unusual facts about Blue Ridge Summit


Eugene O'Dunne

He and his spouse owned a home in Baltimore and a summer residence in Blue Ridge Summit, located in Pennsylvania.

Fight at Monterey Pass

Assuming that Ewell's corps wagon train was actually the main supply trains for Lee's army, Kilpatrick moved out aggressively at 10 a.m. on July 4, proceeding west on the Waynesboro-Emmitsburg Turnpike toward the village of Fountain Dale (just east of present-day Blue Ridge Summit on Pennsylvania Route 16) and Monterey Pass.

Fort Ritchie

Fort Ritchie at Cascade, Maryland was a military installation southwest of Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania and southeast of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania in the area of South Mountain.

Hagerstown and Frederick Railway

Passengers could then take the CG&W on to the mountaintop resorts of Pen Mar and Blue Ridge Summit.



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