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South River: I-81 - MM 190.7 - NB
Few places in the southern Shenandoah Valley have a history as closely tied to routes through the surrounding ridges as South River. Set in Rockbridge County near Lexington, it occupies a transport corridor where Interstate 64 cuts through wooded slopes and exposed rock. The broader area opens toward the Maury River valley and Lexington, home to the Virginia Military Institute, founded in 1839, and Washington and Lee University. This part of the Shenandoah Valley is not a single open basin: forested ridges, narrow road corridors and farmland alternate across the Appalachian landscape. South River belongs to this working travel corridor, where major roads use the natural passages between the hills.
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