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The New River is a 14.7-mile-long (23.7 km) [1] river in Huron County, Michigan. It flows north into Lake Huron, reaching the lake just west of Huron City.
Formed by the confluence of the Bedford and Glen Erskine creeks, the Erskine Creek (officially designated a river [3]) rises below Mount Erskine, between Bullaburra and Wentworth Falls, and flows generally south, north-east, and east, before reaching its confluence with the Nepean River, near Mulgoa.
With the coming of the railroad, H. F. Marsh laid out a new village of Richmond near the older site, which prospered and after a time supplanted Manlius. In October 1872, the post office was closed in Manlius and another was established named "New Richmond". After a time, the settlement also came to be known as "New Richmond". [6] [7] [8]
Erskine's town festival is known as the Erskine Water Carnival and held in early June. The Erskine Fish, the concrete statue that is the world's largest northern pike and the town's principal tourist attraction, is on a lawn in a small park on the shore of Cameron Lake , just down the street from downtown Erskine.
Fayetteville is a town in and the county seat of Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 2,887 at the 2020 census. [2]Fayetteville lies adjacent to the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and is directly south of the New River Gorge Bridge.
UPPER SADDLE RIVER — After working on it for 35 years, resident Robert Santomarco insists his two-room Christmas village scene is still a work in progress. "It's new every year to keep the ...
Much of the river's course through West Virginia is designated as the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and the New River is one of the nation's American Heritage Rivers. In 1975, North Carolina designated a 26.5-mile (42.6 km) segment of the river as "New River State Scenic River", by including it in the state's Natural and Scenic ...
Fosston, is located in sections 3 and 4 of Rosebud Township, and was named in honor of Louis Foss, an immigrant from the village Nyttingnes in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The townsite was organized by W. J. Hilligoss, who selected and purchased the townsite in 1884, had it surveyed, platted a four-block area, and built a hotel.