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  2. List of people executed in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    7 Earl Clanton Jr. Black 33 M April 14, 1988 Petersburg: Wilhemina Smith 8 Alton Waye: Black 34 M August 30, 1989 Lunenburg: Laverne Marshall 9 Richard Thomas Boggs: White 27 M July 19, 1990 Portsmouth: Treeby Shaw Douglas Wilder: 10 Wilbert Lee Evans: Black 44 M October 17, 1990 Alexandria City: Sheriff Deputy William Truesdale 11 Buddy Earl ...

  3. Gold mining in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Other mines did, however, and gold production in Virginia continued until World War II, when, on October 8, 1942, the War Production Board issued Limitation Order L-208, which branded gold production as a non-essential and directed all but the smallest of gold mines to shut down so their labor force could be used elsewhere to support the war ...

  4. Mecklenburg Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    Stockton was also on death row for murder and originally planned to escape with them, but backed out because he anticipated his case would be overturned on appeal. During the escape, he wrote down everything that happened minute by minute in his diaries, which were later published in a Norfolk, Virginia newspaper, the Virginian Pilot .

  5. List of rivers of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Mine Run; Robinson River. Rose River; South River; Conway River; Staunton River; Mountain Run; ... ISBN 0-88490-177-7 This page was last edited on 8 November 2024, at ...

  6. Shotover River - Wikipedia

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    Today small-time gold seekers still work the river and two of its tributaries, Moke and Moonlight Creeks, for gold. [2] It is now a popular river for tourism. The river is used for commercial white water rafting trips and jet boating rides which operate out of the nearby tourist resort of Queenstown. There is also a canyon swing site on the ...

  7. Roanoke River - Wikipedia

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    The Roanoke River (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) runs 410 miles (660 km) long [1] through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. [2] A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.

  8. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The methodical removal of portions of the body over an extended period of time, usually with a knife, eventually resulting in death. Sometimes known as "death by a thousand cuts". Pendulum. [8] A machine with an axe head for a weight that slices closer to the victim's torso over time (of disputed historicity). Starvation/Dehydration ...

  9. York River (Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    The York River was formerly known as the Pamunkey River by the Native Americans.Colonists of the Virginia Company in the 17th century first called it the Charles River. On the north bank (the Middle Peninsula), in what is now Gloucester County, the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy maintained Werowocomoco, one of two capitals of the paramount chiefdom at the time of European contact before 1609.