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Wallen Ridge (also called Wallens Ridge) is a ridge in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Virginia. [1]

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Tennessee State of the United States of America

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Wallen Ridge was named after a pioneer who explored the area in the 1760s. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Wallen Ridge
  2. ↑ Haywood, John (1891). The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee from Its Earliest Settlement Up to the Year 1796: Including the Boundaries of the State. W.H. Haywood. p. 45-46.

Coordinates: 36°40′00″N83°03′29″W / 36.666756°N 83.057947°W / 36.666756; -83.057947

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