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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 ft 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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