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The mines required large amounts of water and timber to supply the houses and mines in Virginia City and Gold Hill. To feed these mines, the dam at Carson Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company's Marlette Lake was increased, and Hobart Reservoir was created, and a number of flumes and pipelines were built to transport water down to Virginia City.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) is responsible for the care and protection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.It uses a range of tools to manage the marine park including Acts and Regulations, zoning plan, plans of management, traditional owner agreements, partnerships, stewardship and best practice, education, research and monitoring and reporting.
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.
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The port's facilities at its current location were built in 1940. [3] The port was built on land that was at one time part of the unincorporated town and port of Warwick, which was burned by the British in 1781. [2] Owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, it is one of only a few municipality-owned ports on the Eastern Seaboard. After a city ...
Port of Richmond (Virginia) V. Virginia Port Authority This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 09:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the former mining villages of Virginia City and Gold Hill, both in Storey County, as well as Dayton and Silver City, both to the south in adjacent Lyon County, Nevada, United States. Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961, the district is one of only ...
Gloucester Point is located in southern Gloucester County at (37.269907, −76.498604), [5] on the north side of the York River in southeastern Virginia To the south across the river on U.S. Route 17 and the George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge is Yorktown, site of the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War.