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...that the Buckingham Branch Railroad (pictured) in Central Virginia was formed in 1989 and has since expanded from a 16-mile railroad to operate over 200 miles of track?
... that The Coffee Pot historic roadhouse in Roanoke features a 15-foot (4.6 m) stucco coffee pot atop its roof?
... that George Washington's step-granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis married Thomas Law in 1796 at Hope Park plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia?
... that Pocahontas Island, where evidence of prehistoric Native American artifacts were found, would later become the first free black settlement in the U.S. state of Virginia?

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