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A view of the Pagan River from the backyard of the Wentworth-Grinnan House.. The Pagan River (Warraskoyak) is a 12.5-mile-long (20.1 km) [1] tributary of the James River located in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.
Bald Cypress and Tupelo Swamps occur along many streams of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Most were logged, thus old-growth examples are rare. The Blackwater River Preserve protects one of the oldest bald cypress and tupelo swamp forests in the South, with trees up to 800 years old. The largest known water tupelo in the United States, according to ...
Peoples of the Deptford Culture, the Swift Creek Culture and the Weeden Island Culture occupied sites within the Okefenokee. [7] The last tribe to seek sanctuary in the swamp were the Seminoles. [7] Troops led by General Charles Rinaldo Floyd during the Second Seminole War, 1838–1842, ended the age of the Native Americans in the Okefenokee. [7]
Cypress Creek may refer to: United States. Cypress Creek station, a rail station in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Cypress Creek (Logan Creek), a stream in Missouri; Cypress Creek (Texas), a stream in Waller County, Texas, United States; Cypress Creek EMS, an emergency medical service provider in Houston, Texas; Cypress Creek High School ...
At a Florida Correctional Services Corp. facility called Cypress Creek, north of Tampa, six juveniles escaped between 2000 and 2001. In 2001, at a youth prison run by the company in Nevada, juvenile inmates rioted and took over the facility.
Ware County, Georgia's 60th county, was created on December 15, 1824, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly from land that was originally part of Appling County.. The county is named for Nicholas Ware, the mayor of Augusta, Georgia from (1819–1821) and United States Senator who represented Georgia from 1821 until his death in 1824.
Waycross is the county seat of and only incorporated city in Ware County in the U.S. state of Georgia.The population was 13,942 in the 2020 census.. Waycross gets its name from the city's location at key railroad junctions; lines from six directions meet at the city.
The watershed of the Cache River, in which the Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge is located. The Refuge's area covers a variety of habitats, including cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland forest, upland hardwood forests, oak barrens, and prairie grassland. Over 50 threatened and endangered species are found within the refuge's boundaries. In ...