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Shenandoah| River in Virginia, formed at Fort Royal by the junction of the South Fork and North Fork rivers, and flowing 89 km/55 mi to join the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, as it passes through the Blue Ridge Mountains. |
| The North Fork Shenandoah starts in New Market, Virginia; the South Fork Shenandoah at Port Republic, Virginia. Near the junction at Fort Royal is one of the earliest settlement sites in North America, a Paleo-Indian site dated to c. 9,300 BC. |
| The river is not navigable, but has several hydroelectric facilities. The fertile Shenandoah Valley is one of the nation's main apple-growing and dairy-farming regions. It is overlooked to the southwest by the Shenandoah National Park. During the Civil War, the Union general Philip Sheridan laid the valley to waste 1864–65. |
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