Massanutten

Massanutten Mountain rises within the Shenandoah Valley, dividing the waters of the river's north and south forks. The long wooded ridge was called Peaked Mountain by English speakers in 1740 and later Buffalo Mountain. Along the wider valley ran an Indigenous route known to colonists as the Indian Road, which became the Great Wagon Road. In the eighteenth century German and Scots-Irish settlers travelled south along this corridor from Pennsylvania, making homes in the valleys around the ridge.