Alleghenies

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  1. 1
    The Allegheny Mountains in south central Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern West Virginia, and western Virginia.

    "Squatterism is as old as our country. George Washington in 1784 was making entries in his diary about his experiences with squatters on lands he owned west of the Alleghenies."

  2. 2
    plural of Allegheny form-of, plural

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allegheny mountains

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"And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California."

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