Shenandoah

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Shenandoah is a Native American word. It has several different meanings including: daughter of the stars, an Iroquois chief's name which meant "deer in the woods", along with several others.

Shenandoah may also refer to the following:

Places

• California Shenandoah Valley AVA, an American Viticultural Area in California
• Shenandoah County, Virginia, a county in the state of Virginia
• Shenandoah Creek, a tributary of Mahanoy Creek in Pennsylvania
• Shenandoah River, a river in Virginia and West Virginia
• Shenandoah Valley, the valley through which that river runs
• Shenandoah Valley AVA, an American Viticultural Area in Virginia and West Virginia
• Shenandoah Mountain, a mountain in Virginia and West Virginia, along the western edge of the Shenandoah Valley
• Shenandoah National Park, a national park east of the Shenandoah Valley
• Shenandoah, Iowa, a city in the state of Iowa
• Shenandoah, New York, a community in state of New York
• Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, a borough in the state of Pennsylvania
• Shenandoah, Texas, a city in the state of Texas
• Shenandoah, Virginia, a town in the state of Virginia
• Shenandoah River, New Zealand, a river in New Zealand
• Shenandoah Highway, aka State Highway 65, in New Zealand

Ships

• The first USS Shenandoah, a screw sloop commissioned in 1863, active in the American Civil War, and in use until 1886
• The second USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first rigid airship built by the Navy, christened 1923 but destroyed in a storm in 1925
• The third USS Shenandoah (AD-26), a destroyer tender in service from 1945 to 1980
• The fourth USS Shenandoah (AD-44), a destroyer tender, commissioned 1983 and decommissioned 1996
• CSS Shenandoah, a Confederate Navy screw steamer
• Shenandoah, a four-masted wooden barque of 3,407 GRT, launched on November 26, 1892 at the Arthur Sewall & Co. shipyard in Bath, Maine on its own account

Train

• Shenandoah (B&O), an American passenger train of the B&O Railroad in the 20th century

Media

• Shenandoah (band), a country music group
• Shenandoah (film), a 1965 movie starring Jimmy Stewart
• Shenandoah (musical), a Broadway musical
• A Man Called Shenandoah, a western series
• "Oh Shenandoah", a popular American folk song/sea chantey
• Shenandoah (magazine), a literary magazine published by Washington and Lee University

A person

• Joanne Shenandoah, an Iroquois singer and acoustic guitarist

Institutions

• Army of the Shenandoah (Confederate), a Confederate army during the American Civil War
• Army of the Shenandoah (Union), a Union army during the American Civil War
• Shenandoah University, a university in Winchester, Virginia
• Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, also in Winchester, Virginia

Other

• Shenandoah (beard), a type of beard