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Other mines did, however, and gold production in Virginia continued until World War II, when, on October 8, 1942, the War Production Board issued Limitation Order L-208, which branded gold production as a non-essential and directed all but the smallest of gold mines to shut down so their labor force could be used elsewhere to support the war ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Rivers of Virginia. It includes rivers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
The Roanoke River (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) runs 410 miles (660 km) long [1] through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. [2] A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.
The York River was formerly known as the Pamunkey River by the Native Americans.Colonists of the Virginia Company in the 17th century first called it the Charles River. On the north bank (the Middle Peninsula), in what is now Gloucester County, the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy maintained Werowocomoco, one of two capitals of the paramount chiefdom at the time of European contact before 1609.
The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County 348 miles (560 km) [3] to the Chesapeake Bay. [4] The river length extends to 444 miles (715 km) if the Jackson River, the longer of its two headwaters, is included. [3]
The Robinson River is a 34.2-mile-long (55.0 km) [1] tributary of the Rapidan River in Madison County, Virginia, in the United States. It flows southeast through White Oak Canyon and Berry Hollow, under Routes 231 , 29 and 15 .
The name Irvine River, occasionally spelled Irvin or Irwin River, appears in land deeds as early as the 1730s, and is first depicted on a map drawn by Edward Moseley in 1737. [6] This name persisted through the late eighteenth century among colonial administrators in eastern and central Virginia, notably depicted and labeled on the Fry ...