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Dutch Gap Canal is located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia just north of the lost 17th-century town of Henricus.The canal's construction was initiated by Union forces during the American Civil War to bypass a meander loop of the river around a peninsula known as Farrar's Island that was controlled by Confederate artillery.
Farrar's Island is a peninsula now on the west side of the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia.The county operates the Dutch Gap Conservation Area and Boat Landing and as well as a living history museum, the Henricus Historical Park.
The second successful English colonial settlement in the New World, Henricus was opposite to the Native American village of Arrohateck. At the time, the First Anglo-Powhatan War was raging, and the Indian tribes of Virginia offered continuous resistance to colonial settlement, largely orchestrated by native leader Nemattanew — or as the colonists knew him, "Jack-of-the-Feather".
Butchers Gap on Virginia-Kentucky border in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Pound Gap , elevation 2,392 feet, on U.S. Route 23 Panther Gap in Mill Mountain, where Virginia State Route 39 goes between Bath and Rockbridge County near the town of Goshen
Parks in Chesterfield County, Virginia (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Protected areas of Chesterfield County, Virginia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
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Flowerdew Hundred dates to 1618–19 with the patent of 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) on the south side of the James River in Virginia. Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of the Virginia Colony, may have named the property after his wife, Temperance Flowerdew. Their primary residence was in Jamestown when Sir George called the first ...
The North River is a 55.3-mile-long (89.0 km) [1] river in the mountains and Shenandoah Valley of northern Virginia, the United States. It joins the South River at Port Republic to form the South Fork Shenandoah River. [2] [3] The North River, as seen from the Wild Oak Trail