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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 ...
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Quantico Creek is a 13.7-mile-long (22.0 km) [1] partially tidal tributary of the Potomac River in eastern Prince William County, Virginia. Quantico Creek rises southeast of Independent Hill , flows through Prince William Forest Park and Dumfries and empties into the Potomac at Possum Point .
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 ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Rivers of Virginia. It includes rivers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
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.
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The Robinson River is a 34.2-mile-long (55.0 km) [1] tributary of the Rapidan River in Madison County, Virginia, in the United States. It flows southeast through White Oak Canyon and Berry Hollow, under Routes 231 , 29 and 15 .