As a former Virginia resident, I can attest to the awesome beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains (which really are blue, btw). Of all the states I've been to, I'd have to say Virginia is the most glorious (but I thought the same thing when I drove through the Pennsylvania Deutch country!) There's beauty to be found in all of these United States, and aren't we blessed that this country's attributes are so wonderfully varied from coast to coast? Throughout my research I have come across so many of my family members (different surnames) coming from Lee Co., VA. I'm sure many of you all have too. Can someone tell me.....was this a heavily populated area? Was there constant wagon traffic (migration) out of Lee Co or did huge wagon trains leave every 3 months or someting like that? Was this trail taken called the Cumberland Gap? Kerry (now amid the amber waves of grain in Indiana)