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Lake Anna State Park is a state park located in Spotsylvania County in Virginia.Initially, the site of the Goodwin Gold Mine – gold was first discovered at the site in 1829 – the land later played host to Lake Anna, a reservoir created to serve as a coolant for Dominion Power's nearby nuclear power plant.
Lake Anna is approximately 17 miles (27 km) long from tip to tip, with 200 miles (320 km) of shoreline. [3] The lake is divided into two sides by three stone dikes. The public side (also known as the "cold" side) is roughly 9,000 acres (36 km 2 ), while the private side (known as the "warm" side) is roughly 4,000 acres (16 km 2 ).
The two highways split, which the U.S. Highway continuing northwest toward Culpeper and the state highway heading east on New Bridge Road. SR 208 uses the New Bridge to cross Lake Anna, an impoundment of the North Anna River, northwest of the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station and southeast of Lake Anna State Park.
A 42-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy drowned on Saturday, May 25 in Lake Anna, a reservoir about 60 miles north of Richmond, Virginia, the Louisa County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.
Shot Tower Historical State Park: Austinville: 10 acres (0.040 km 2) 1964 Open Sky Meadows State Park: Delaplane: 1,860 acres (7.5 km 2) 1975 Open Smith Mountain Lake State Park: Huddleston: 1,248 acres (5.05 km 2) 1967 Open Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park: Big Stone Gap: 1.5 acres (0.0061 km 2) 1943 Open Staunton River State Park
Lake Anna Park is a 21-acre (85,000 m 2) park around a spring-fed, 10-acre (40,000 m 2) lake, and is located in the center of downtown Barberton, Ohio. [1] Lake Anna was formed by natural geology, left after the last ice age. It would have long been a resource for varying cultures of indigenous peoples in the area. Ohio Columbus Barber ...
Pamunkey Creek is a 20.8-mile-long (33.5 km) [1] river in Orange and Spotsylvania counties in the U.S. state of Virginia.It is a tributary of the North Anna River.. The creek is formed by the confluence of smaller branches that rise in the town of Orange, Virginia, then flows southeast across the Virginia Piedmont.
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