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A Coast Guard station on Hog Island was later closed. The site where the lighthouse once stood is now nearly a mile out to sea. In 2008, in conjunction with the Barrier Islands Center in Machipongo, Virginia, filmmaker James Spione directed a documentary, Our Island Home , which featured three of the last surviving people to be born on Hog Island.
The Virginia Barrier Islands forming a line along the eastern coast of Delmarva.. The Virginia Barrier Islands are a continuous chain of long, narrow, low-lying, sand and scrub barrier islands separated from one another by narrow inlets and from the mainland by a series of shallow marshy tidal bays along the entire coast of the Virginia end of the Delmarva Peninsula.
The Volgenau Virginia Coast Reserve (prior to August 2020 known as the Virginia Coast Reserve) is a biosphere reserve created by The Nature Conservancy in the early 1970s. It consists of 40,000 acres across 14 of the Virginia Barrier Islands along the Atlantic coast of the Virginia portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Parramore Island, Hog Island, Virginia, Smith Island, Virginia ...
Assateague Island is a 37-mile (60 km) long barrier island located off the eastern coast of the Delmarva Peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean. [1] The northern two-thirds of the island are in Maryland, and the southern third is in Virginia. The Maryland section contains the majority of Assateague Island National Seashore and Assateague State Park.
Ragged Mountain Natural Area, January 2011. The Ragged Mountains are a small chain of rugged hills—an offshoot of the Blue Ridge Mountains—southwest of Charlottesville, Virginia. 980 acres (4.0 km 2) have been preserved as the Ragged Mountain Natural Area.
The Commonwealth Club, is a private gentlemen's club in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Its present clubhouse was completed in 1891. Its present clubhouse was completed in 1891. The defining structure of the Commonwealth Club Historic District , it is located at 401 West Franklin Street.
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The Virginia Gentlemen (VGs) is a lower voices collegiate a cappella group and the oldest a cappella group at the University of Virginia. [1] The group was founded in 1953 as an elite octet of the Virginia Glee Club. [2] Since establishing independence from the Virginia Glee Club in 1987, the group has continued to perform a mix of contemporary ...