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Other locations had to be closed due to water outages, including the 10th Street YMCA, Atlee Station Family YMCA, Chickahominy Family YMCA, Downtown YMCA, Northside Family YMCA, and Thornton YMCA Aquatic Center at the Shady Grove YMCA. [19]
The Chickahominy are a federally recognized tribe of Virginian Native Americans [1] who primarily live in Charles City County, located along the James River midway between Richmond and Williamsburg in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This area of the Tidewater is not far from where they were living in 1600, before the arrival of colonists from ...
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.
Chickahominy may refer to Chickahominy people, a Native American tribe; Chickahominy River, a river in eastern Virginia; Chickahominy, a neighborhood in Greenwich, ...
The Chickahominy Shipyard Archeological Site is a historic archaeological site located near Toano, Virginia. The shipyard was established in 1776 on the Chickahominy River by the Virginia Committee on Safety for the construction of a small navy to protect the Virginia colony during the American Revolution. It remained in production until 1781 ...
Macleod, David I. Building character in the American boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and their forerunners, 1870-1920 (Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2004), a standard scholarly history. Putney, Clifford W. "Going Upscale: The YMCA and Postwar America, 1950-1990." Journal of Sport History 20#2 1993, pp. 151–166. online
Gaines' Mill and the Union retreat across the Chickahominy was a psychological victory for the Confederacy, signaling that Richmond was out of danger. [ 18 ] "Unburied Dead on Battlefield" by John Reekie ; issued as Stero #914 being taken on the Battlefield of Gaines Mills aka First Cold Harbor April 1865; taken near the Adams Farm where 7th ...
Richmond National Battlefield Park occupies almost 3000 acres in the coastal plain of Virginia, bounded by the James and Chickahominy River watersheds, much of it preserved as it would have looked in the Civil War, with scenic meadows and old-growth forest enabling abundant wildlife.