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Thread #160815 Message #4135570
Posted By: Lighter
06-Feb-22 - 02:16 PM
Thread Name: Singing 'Shenandoah' for Brits
Subject: RE: Singing 'Shenandoah' for Brits
"Shannandore" is how it's spelled on a land deed of 1746:
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/deeds/f5400002.txt
On a formal map of 1760, it's "Shanedore":
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3880.ar143600/?r=0.152,0.138,0.55,0.201,0
The original English name of the river, discovered by Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood in 1716, was "Euphrates."