Buford's Gap

Buford's Gap

Infobox Mountain Pass
Name = Buford's Gap
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Elevation = 1240ft. (378m.)
Location = Virginia USA
Range = Blue Ridge Mountains
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Topographic

Transversed by = U.S. Highway 460

Buford's Gap is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Bedford County, Virginia. Buford's Gap was the original crossing of the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, later the Norfolk and Western Railway, a precursor of today's Norfolk Southern Railway system. It was the sight of a battle in 1864 during the American Civil War. U.S. Route 460 also passes through the gap.

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