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Possibilities include being a new river that was not on the Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia, an Indian name meaning "new waters", or the surname of an early settler. [5] It was once called Wood's River for Colonel Abraham Wood , an English explorer from Virginia, who explored the river in the mid-17th century.
The South Fork New River is a river in the U.S. state of North Carolina.. It stretches from its headwaters at a spring near Blowing Rock and the Eastern Continental Divide and meanders northward along the northwestern face of the Blue Ridge Mountains through the eastern and central portions of Watauga County and then Ashe County in northwestern North Carolina, passing through the town of Boone.
The most significant extension of the New River, however, was the first, an extension of the South Fork called the North New River Canal (also known as the G-15 canal). Dredging for the canal began in 1906, not long after Napoleon B. Broward won the governorship of Florida on a promise to drain the Everglades.
The New River channel begins at a volcanic lake near Cerro Prieto. [1] Today this lake feeds the Cerro Prieto Geothermal Power Station.The river flows north 15 miles (24 km) through Baja California, and another 66 miles (106 km) through California into the Salton Sea, the largest lake in California.
The New River is a 58.7-mile-long (94.5 km) [3] tributary of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Via the Big South Fork and the Cumberland and Ohio rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed. The New River rises on Frozen Head, a notable mountain of Morgan County, Tennessee.
New River waterfront in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The New River is a 50-mile (80-km) long river in southeastern North Carolina in the United States. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The river has been plagued in more recent years by pollution by solid waste.
Apparently the river had again been left off a map so Jefferson named it the New River. The name Woods and New River were used interchangeably until about 1770, when the consensus name became what it is today, the New River. [3] Human activity along the New River at New River State Park has been traced back as far as 10,000 years ago.
The North Fork New River is a river in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It rises in Northern Watauga County , and flows northeast to Ashe County where it joins with the South Fork New River to form the New River .