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1975. Administrator. U.S. Forest Service. The James River Face Wilderness is an 8,907-acre area located near Natural Bridge, Virginia that is protected by the Eastern Wilderness Act of Congress to maintain its present, natural condition. As part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, it helps to preserve a variety of natural life forms ...
1,140 acres (4.6 km 2) James River Face Wilderness Addition is a wildland in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of western Virginia that has been recognized by the Wilderness Society as a special place worthy of protection from logging and road construction. Adjacent to the James River Face Wilderness, it extends the wildland ...
Designated NHL. November 7, 1973 [2] Ninety Six National Historic Site, also known as Old Ninety Six and Star Fort, is a United States National Historic Site located about 60 miles (96 kilometers) south of Greenville, South Carolina. The historic site was listed on the National Register in 1969, [1] declared to be a National Historic Landmark ...
The Yazoo Pass expedition was a joint operation of Major General Ulysses S. Grant 's Army of the Tennessee and Rear Admiral David D. Porter 's Mississippi River Squadron in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. Grant's objective was to get his troops into a flanking position against the Rebel defenders of the heavily armed ...
Dickinson College (BA) James Charles Greenwood (born May 4, 1951) is an American politician in the Republican Party. He represented Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District for six terms in the United States House of Representatives. Greenwood became president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) in 2004.
The Freetown-Fall River State Forest (commonly shortened to Freetown State Forest) is a publicly owned forest covering more than 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) in the city of Fall River and the towns of Freetown and Lakeville in the state of Massachusetts. The forest lies mostly in the center of the town of Freetown (about a third of the town) dividing ...
James Greenwood (journalist) (1832–1929), British social explorer, journalist and writer. James Greenwood (cricketer) (1806–1870), amateur English cricketer. James C. Greenwood (born 1951), known as Jim, American politician in the Republican Party. Jim Greenwood (rugby union) (1929–2010), Scottish international rugby union player.
The Cushaw Hydroelectric Project is a 7.5 megawatt (MW) dam and power house facility owned and operated by Cushaw Hydro LLC. [1] The project is located on the James River, a navigable waterway of the United States, in Bedford and Amherst Counties, Virginia. The project occupies federal lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service.