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The James River forms near Iron Gate on the border between Alleghany and Botetourt counties, from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson rivers in the Appalachian Mountains. It flows into the Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads. Tidal waters extend west to Richmond at the river's fall line (the head of navigation). The James River through ...
Part of the James River Fleet in 1990 Decommissioned destroyers on James River in 1993 Inactive U.S. Navy auxiliary ships of the James River Reserve Fleet (1996) The James River Reserve Fleet (JRRF) is located on the James River in the U.S. state of Virginia at ( 37°07′13″N 76°38′47″W / 37.120393°N 76.646469°W / 37. ...
The most prominent, though not perhaps the most insuperable obstacle in the navigation of the Atlantic rivers, consists in their lower falls, which are ascribed to a presumed continuous granite ridge, rising about one hundred and thirty feet above tide water. That ridge from New York to James River inclusively arrests the ascent of the tide ...
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 natural border with the Piedmont Region.
The James River Gorge is a water gap created by the James River in Central Virginia.The Gorge is 2,433 feet (742 m) [1] deep as measured from Highcock Knob 3,073 feet (937 m) [1] to the James River 640 feet (200 m) [1] and is approximately 9.3 miles (15.0 km) [2] long.
Wooden bridge to privately-owned island crosses a side-channel of the James River. The main shipping channel lies to the south in the Aiken Swamp-Dutch Gap Cutoff: Cox's Ferry: SR 615 (Coxendale Road) at Osborne's Landing Cox's Landing: Abandoned Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge: SR 895: Bensley to northwest of Varina: 2002 37°26′31″N 77 ...
James River Bridge, viewed from Huntington Park Beach. Generally surrounded by water, the Virginia Peninsula is linked to other areas across the surrounding water barriers of the James and York Rivers, and the harbor of Hampton Roads by 2 bridge–tunnels, 2 large drawbridges, and a state-operated ferry system. These are: [citation needed]
Jamestown Rediscovery corrects a historical myth long believed to be true: that the site of the original Jamestown settlement of 1607 had washed into the James River long ago by erosion and tides. The archaeologists, including William Kelso, Beverly (Bly) Straube, and Nick Luccketti, used primary source material to estimate the location of the ...