Bisected by the Roanoke River, Roanoke is the commercial and cultural hub of much of the surrounding area of Virginia and Southwest Virginia.

Bisected by California State Route 24 and framed by its rolling oak-covered hills, the city of Orinda was incorporated on July 1, 1985.

Bisected by the 1687 Edgmont Great Road, Brookhaven developed into a town of small crossroads, at Sneath's Corners in the mid-19th century.

Bisected in the south by the Tropic of Capricorn, Mato Grosso do Sul generally has a warm and humid climate, and is crossed by numerous affluents of the Parana River.

Bisected by the River Gryffe, angling is available within the village.

Bisected by the Trans-Canada Highway, located on the Canadian Pacific Railway and run through by the Bow River, Canmore is ideally situated on a number of major transportation routes, which has influenced its tourism-based economy and historical mining industry.

Bisected by the A635 Huddersfield Road, Wilthorpe has several small shops and infant and junior schools located on Greenfoot Lane, as well as an ATS garage and a dentist on Huddersfield Road.

Bisected by State Route 520, it is part of the Washington Park Arboretum.

Bisected by the eastern Regional Road E. R. 1-1ª, the community is divided to an eastern beach community, and western pastureland that extends westerly to the island's caldera.

Bisected from east to west by the Staten Island Expressway and with New York State Route 440 forming its western boundary, Graniteville's most notable landmark is Baron Hirsch Cemetery, an 80 acre ( 324, 000 m² ) Jewish cemetery founded in the late 19th century and still in active use ; in August 2001 this cemetery became the focus of a local health-related story when it was one of six locations on the island where mosquitos carrying the West Nile virus were discovered.

Bisected by the A62 road, Hollinwood is located in the southwest of Oldham, contiguous with the towns of Chadderton and Failsworth, at Junction 22 of the M60 motorway.

Bisected stamp ( with regular full stamp ) on an 1868 letter from Matanzas to Guanajay, La Habana Province, Cuba.

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Separated by the Raritan river are Busch Campus, in Piscataway, and Livingston Campus, also mainly in Piscataway but including remote sections of land extending into Edison Township and the Borough of Highland Park.

The U. S. Route 1 interchange is followed by an intersection at Paulus Boulevard before separating into a local / express configuration and paralleling the Raritan River, passing the former New Brunswick city docks.

U. S. Route 9 and Route 35 split at an interchange ( the former Victory Circle ) that features access to the southbound Garden State Parkway by way of Chevalier Avenue, with Route 35 continuing north on a four-lane divided highway that passes through marshland and crosses the Raritan River on the Victory Bridge into Perth Amboy.

Passenger rail service is provide by New Jersey Transit via the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line, Raritan Valley Line, the Morristown Line and the Gladstone Branch.

This program allows students who have an Associate's degree to complete a Bachelor's degree by attending Rutgers classes off campus at Raritan Valley Community College's North Branch campus.

The central portion of the county is drained by the South Branch of the Raritan River.

Rail service to the northern part of the county from Newark Penn Station is provided to High Bridge, Annandale, Lebanon and Whitehouse Station by New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line.

Raritan was founded by settlers of Dutch Reformed religion who originated from Raritan, New Jersey.

It is drained by the South Branch of the Raritan River.

Local bus service is provided by New Jersey Transit on the 884 route, with train service on the Raritan Valley Line available at the High Bridge station.

Raritan was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 2, 1838, from portions of the now-defunct Amwell Township.

Raritan is hosted by a couple of major roads such as Route 12, Route 31 and U. S. Route 202 ( which run concurrent for a few miles in the southern part of the township ).

Readington Township is bounded on the north by the Lamington River and Rockaway Creek ; to the east by Somerset County, which existed as the boundary between East and West Jersey from 1688 – 1695 ; to the south, the South Branch of the Raritan River ; and to the west by the old West Jersey Society's line which crosses the Cushetunk Mountains.

The township is also served by the New Jersey Transit in White House, offering service on the Raritan Valley Line to Newark Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal, with connecting service to Penn Station New York in Midtown Manhattan.

Ewing Township is also traversed by the Delaware and Raritan Canal near the Delaware River.

What is now Edison Township was originally incorporated as Raritan Township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1870, from portions of both Piscataway Township and Woodbridge Township.

* Raritan Center, a major industrial park anchored by the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center.

Metuchen was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 20, 1900, from portions of Raritan Township ( now known as Edison ).

Sayreville is located on the southern bank of the Raritan River, bordered on the southwest by and the south by Old Bridge Township.

A local British loyalist Abe Mussey was captured by American troops while signaling to British Ships on the Raritan Bay in 1777.

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

One additional lane would then be directional with the traffic burden and effectively increase the traffic carrying capability of the East River Drive by fifty percent.

This could be accomplished without the tremendous expenditures necessitated by the Schuylkill Expressway and without destroying the natural beauty of the East River Drive.

Wisconsin Dells, where fantastically scenic rocks carved by the Wisconsin River are overgrown with fern and other foliage, rates a stopover when traveling from Chicago.

`` Whereas, a Bridge over Merrimack River, from the Land of Hon'ble Jonathan Greenleaf, Esquire, in Newbery, to Deer Island, and from said Island to Salisbury, would be of very extensive utility, by affording a safe Conveyance to Carriages, Teams and Travellers at all seasons of the year, and at all Times of Tide.

Often, threading through the overcast, he was forced to fly close to the ground by a low ceiling, skimming above the Winooski or the White River along the line of the broken railroad.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

In Ireland's County Limerick, near the River Shannon, there is a quiet little suburb by the name of Garryowen, which means `` Garden of Owen ''.

She finally settled in Fall River and, after being employed for a time by a Mrs. Reed, was hired by the Bordens.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December.

In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.

At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.

Terrain is most rugged in the extreme southeast, which is drained by the Bargushat River, and most moderate in the Araks River valley to the extreme southwest.

This crisis was addressed in 1992-93 by construction of a tunnel to divert water into the lake from the Arpa River.

Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people.

Trade links with the rest of the Australian states were established with the Murray River being successfully navigated in 1853 by Francis Cadell, an Adelaide resident.

By the River Styx, he sees the souls of those not given a proper burial, forced to wait by the river until someone buries them.

The Cumberland Plateau region is drained to the west-northwest by the Tennessee River and its tributaries ; all other parts of the state are drained to the southwest.

In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River ( formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa ) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.