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Historical Highway MarkersThe Third Lederer ExpeditionN-8
In 1669 and 1670, German-born John Lederer led three expeditions to explore Virginia's Piedmont and the Carolinas that encouraged further European exploration. The third expedition began nearby at Robert Talifer's house near the Rappahannock River on 20 Aug. 1670. Col. John Catlett, "nine English horse," and five Indians accompanied Lederer. They reached the junction of the Rappahannock River and the Rapidan River two days later and followed the former inland. At the river's headwaters they approached the Blue Ridge Mountains and reached the summit of one of its peaks on 26 Aug. From there they viewed the Shenandoah Valley, then returned the same way they had come.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: William Jones, Jr., “He Saw the Valley First: The Journeys of John Lederer, the Explorer Who Led the Virginias’ Pioneer Expeditions to the Crest of the Blue Ridge,” Virginia Cavalcade 17 (Summer 1957): 10-15; John Lederer, The Discoveries of John Lederer, in Three Several Marches From Virginia, to the West of Carolina, and Other Parts of the Continent: Begun in March 1669, and Ended in September 1670…(London: J. C. for S. Heyrick, at Grays-Inne-gate in Holborn, 1672); Douglas L. Rights and William P. Cumming, The Discoveries of John Lederer (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1958). |