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Dutch Gap Canal is located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia just north of the lost 17th-century town of Henricus.The canal's construction was initiated by Union forces during the American Civil War to bypass a meander loop of the river around a peninsula known as Farrar's Island that was controlled by Confederate artillery.
Farrar's Island is a peninsula now on the west side of the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia.The county operates the Dutch Gap Conservation Area and Boat Landing and as well as a living history museum, the Henricus Historical Park.
The second successful English colonial settlement in the New World, Henricus was opposite to the Native American village of Arrohateck. At the time, the First Anglo-Powhatan War was raging, and the Indian tribes of Virginia offered continuous resistance to colonial settlement, largely orchestrated by native leader Nemattanew — or as the colonists knew him, "Jack-of-the-Feather".
Edinburg Gap, Edinburg Gap Road; Taskers Gap, between Mertins Rock and Bowman Mountain; Mooreland Gap, VA Route 730, Shenandoah County; New Market Gap, elevation 1800 feet, on U.S. Route 211
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Parks in Chesterfield County, Virginia (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Protected areas of Chesterfield County, Virginia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The Dutch Gap Canal Lights were built to mark the ends of Dutch Gap Canal, now called Dutch Gap Cutoff, [2] which is a 3 ⁄ 4 nautical mile (1.4 km; 0.86 mi) cut across the base of an oxbow in the James River between Hopewell and Richmond, Virginia. They were on Farrar's Island, on the south side of the river.
Chester Gap, sometimes referred to as Happy Creek Gap for the creek that runs down its western slope, is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the border of Rappahannock County, Fauquier County, and Warren County in Virginia. The gap is traversed by U.S. Route 522. [1] The Appalachian Trail also passes across the gap, with a trailhead at ...