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Appalachian Trail- Inset: Roanoke Valley-New River Valley - Southern Shenandoah Valley areas highlighted

Mt. Rogers, Virginia's highest point, elevation
1746 m (5728 ft) in the southwestern Virginia Blue Ridge. Note summit covered
in high altitude spruce-fir forest. Mount Rogers is underlain by purple-gray
rhyolite that was erupted from volcanoes approximately 750 Ma. Direction
of view is to the northeast. The mountain was named for William Barton
Rogers, educated at William and Mary and professor of natural philosophy
and chemistry from 1828-1835. He later became Virginia's first State Geologist
and founded M.I.T
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