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Piss Pot Island is an island on the South Branch Potomac River west of Romney in Hampshire County, West Virginia. [1] It first appeared on Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson's map of Virginia and Maryland in 1751. [2] Piss Pot Island received its name before 1755, the year it was included on Fry and Jefferson's Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland ...
Stallings Island is located upriver of Augusta, in an area known as the Ninety-Nine Islands, just downriver of the mouth of Stevens Creek. The island was occupied from about 2600 B.C.E. to about 2000 B.C.E., and again from about 1800 B.C.E. to 1400 B.C.E.
Lapham examining a meteorite which had fallen in Wisconsin in 1868 The Silurian trilobite Calymene celebra; Wisconsin's state fossil. Polymath naturalist Increase Allen Lapham is regarded as Wisconsin's first geologist. [11] During the late 1830s Lapham discovered a wide variety of fossils in great abundance in some rocky hills near Milwaukee. [5]
During the Ice Age, Virginia was home to mastodons. During the late 18th century, Thomas Jefferson directed his scholarly attention to local fossils. Dinosaur tracks were discovered at Oak Hill in the 1920s. The scallop Chesapecten jeffersonius is the Virginia state fossil.
The history of Wisconsin includes the story of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
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This list of the prehistoric life of Virginia contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of ...
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