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  2. Virginia Beach Oceanfront - Wikipedia

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    Virginia Beach Oceanfront refers to the three mile (4.8 km) long (27 feet wide) boardwalk area in South East Virginia Beach on the Atlantic Coast. It is located North of the Rudee Inlet Bridge and includes the boardwalk itself, Atlantic Avenue, and Pacific Avenue. [1] Virginia Beach is a resort city, and the Oceanfront is a primary tourist ...

  3. History of Virginia Beach, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Old Cape Henry Light, completed in 1792, was the first federal construction project under the United States Constitution. The history of Virginia Beach, Virginia, goes back to the Native Americans who lived in the area for thousands of years before the English colonists landed at Cape Henry in April 1607 and established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown a few weeks later.

  4. Virginia Aquarium - Wikipedia

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    www.virginiaaquarium.com. The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, formerly known as the Virginia Marine Science Museum, is an aquarium and marine science museum located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, just south of Rudee Inlet. The exhibits at the museum are contained in over 800,000 US gallons (3,028,000 L) of fresh and saltwater displays.

  5. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The Visitor Contact Center is accessed via Sandpiper Road from the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach, which is the southernmost area of development on the Atlantic Coast of Virginia. Most of the 9,062.45-acre (36.6744 km 2 ) [ 1 ] freshwater refuge is on the Currituck Banks Peninsula , which borders the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Back ...

  6. Water table - Wikipedia

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    The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation. The zone of saturation is where the pores and fractures of the ground are saturated with groundwater, [1] which may be fresh, saline, or brackish, depending on the locality. It can also be simply explained as the depth below which the ground is saturated.

  7. Tidewater (region) - Wikipedia

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    Tidewater (region) Coordinates: 36°53′N 76°28′W. Painted relief map of the Tidewater region on the east coast of the United States in darkest green to one shade lighter green to the west. " Tidewater " is a term for the north Atlantic Plain region of the United States, located east of the Piedmont. It includes Delaware, the remainder of ...

  8. Virginia Beach, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Virginia Beach, officially the City of Virginia Beach, is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 459,470 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Located on the southeastern coast of Virginia, it is the sixth-most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic and the 43rd-most populous city in the U.S .

  9. St. Luke's Church (Smithfield, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    Unlike any other standing Virginia colonial church, there are two water tables each nine bricks high. The transitions from the water tables are accomplished using beveled bricks. There are no glazed headers in the walls that are 36 inches (910 mm) wide at the foundations, 26 inches (660 mm) thick in the walls, and 30 inches (760 mm) thick in ...