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The Chickahominy is an 87-mile-long (140 km) [1] river in eastern Virginia.The river, which serves as the eastern border of Charles City County, rises about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Richmond and flows southeast and south to the James River.
Encyclopedia Virginia ' s logo began depicting the region in 2018, after the inauguration of Ralph Northam, the second Governor of Virginia from the Eastern Shore. [7] Geographically removed from the rest of Virginia, it has had a unique history of settlement and development influenced by agriculture, fishing, tourism, and the Pennsylvania ...
A Confederate signal station existed on the property during the Civil War; in May, 1864, U.S. troops raided the property before continuing upriver toward Richmond, according to James Hoge Tyler, a Confederate soldier assigned to the unit who later served as governor of Virginia (1898–1902).
The York River is a navigable estuary, approximately 34 miles (55 km) long, [4] in eastern Virginia in the United States. It ranges in width from 1 mile (1.6 km) at its head to 2.5 miles (4.0 km) near its mouth on the west side of Chesapeake Bay. Its watershed drains an area of the coastal plain of Virginia north and east of Richmond.
The Virginia Barrier Islands forming a line along the eastern coast of Delmarva.. The Virginia Barrier Islands are a continuous chain of long, narrow, low-lying, sand and scrub barrier islands separated from one another by narrow inlets and from the mainland by a series of shallow marshy tidal bays along the entire coast of the Virginia end of the Delmarva Peninsula.
A city and county that share a name may be completely unrelated in geography. For example, Richmond County is nowhere near the City of Richmond, and Franklin County is even farther from the City of Franklin. More Virginia counties are named for women than in any other state. [4] Virginia's postal abbreviation is VA and its FIPS state code is 51.
“Our South” book tour stops are Lillian in Richmond, Virginia (Oct. 20); King BBQ in Charleston, South Carolina (Oct. 27); The Grey in Savannah, Georgia (Oct. 29); and Turkey and the Wolf in ...
The term tidewater may be correctly applied to all portions of any area, including Virginia, where the water level is affected by the tides (more specifically, where the water level rises when the tide comes in). In the case of Virginia, the Tidewater region includes the land east of the Fall Line, the