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The Tidewater Railway was chartered to cross Virginia from the West Virginia border near Glen Lyn, Virginia in Giles County by way of Roanoke and Suffolk to port at Sewell's Point on Hampton Roads near Norfolk, Virginia.
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The new Town of Altavista was created in 1905 during the construction of the east-west Tidewater Railway between Giles County ( on the border with West Virginia ) and Sewell's Point in what was at the time Norfolk County.
Planned by Campbell County native William Nelson Page and financier and industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, the Tidewater Railway was combined with the Deepwater Railway in West Virginia to form the new Virginian Railway in 1907.
Lane Brothers Construction Company was the contractor for constructing of the Tidewater Railway, including its crossing of the existing north-south Southern Railway in Campbell County.
In 1904, the Tidewater Railway was formed by the industrialist financier Henry Huttleston Rogers, to transport bituminous coal from southern West Virginia to coal piers on the ice-free harbor of Hampton Roads.
In 1907, the Tidewater Railway was combined with the Deepwater Railway ( initially a West Virginia short line railroad ) to form the new Virginian Railway.
Victoria was founded in 1906 as a planned community on what had been largely undeveloped land during the construction of the Tidewater Railway.
In 1907, as they began nearing completion, the Tidewater and Deepwater Railways were combined to form the Virginian Railway ( VGN ).
In March, the Tidewater Railway was formally rechartered by the Virginia State Corporation Commission as " The Virginian Railway Company " and William Nelson Page was elected president on April 15, 1907 at the first new board meeting in Norfolk.
In Virginia, Page ( and Rogers ) formed another intrastate railroad, the new Tidewater Railway, which was legally based in Staunton, a city located along the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ).
Notwithstanding its corporate location on the C & O, agents for the new Tidewater Railway quietly surveyed and secured rights-of-way many miles away from the C & O across southern Virginia, roughly paralleling the Norfolk and Western Railway ( N & W ).
In 1907, The Deepwater and Tidewater were combined to become the Virginian Railway ( VGN ).
The eastern portion of the newly built Tidewater Railway ( soon to become part of the coal-hauling Virginian Railway ) was rushed into service, and the local Norfolk Southern Railway agreed to add substantial passenger capacity in conjunction with the Tidewater Railway to prepare to move the thousands of daily attendees anticipated.
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From ages 11 to 16, the young " Jemmy " Madison was sent to study under Donald Robertson, an instructor at the Innes plantation in King and Queen County, Virginia in the Tidewater region.
In 1607, the native Tidewater population was between 13, 000 to 14, 000.
Before the Nat Turner Revolt, there was a small but ineffectual antislavery movement in Virginia, largely on account of economic trends that made slavery less profitable in the Old South in the 1820s and fears among whites of the rising number of blacks, especially in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions.
Although the chosen name was " Mariners ," the Pilot ′ s editor overruled the contest, deciding he liked the alliteration of " Tidewater Tides.
It was later renamed the Tidewater and Western Railroad, but was dismantled in the early 20th century.
The area the City of Fairfax now encompasses was settled in the early 18th century by farmers from Virginia's Tidewater region.
One of the first councils in the country, Tidewater Council was established in 1911, just one year after William Boyce of Chicago founded scouting in the United States.
The present location was developed along the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, which reached the site in 1907.
Wrightsville was the northern terminus of the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal, which extended to Havre de Grace, Maryland.
This was in contrast to the chiefly English immigrants who had settled the Virginia Tidewater and Carolina Piedmont regions.
The Bourbon class was largely based in the Tidewater area, or the lowlands along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina.
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* The Tidewater Railway is chartered in Virginia.
Therefore, on October 13, 1904, they had new intrastate railroad company, the Tidewater Railway chartered in Virginia to be used for the portion of their project to be in that state.
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Meanwhile, significantly wetter winters are present in northwest Mexico and the southwest United States including central and southern California, while both cooler and wetter than average winters in northeast Mexico and the southeast United States ( including the Tidewater region of Virginia ) occur during the El Niño phase of the oscillation.
Geographically and geologically, Virginia is divided into five regions from east to west: Tidewater, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Ridge and Valley, and Cumberland Plateau.
The Algonquian language is believed to have originated in the western plateau of Idaho or the plains of Montana and moved eastward, eventually extending all the way from Hudson Bay to what is today Nova Scotia in the east and as far south as the Tidewater region of Virginia.
Virginia Beach is the easternmost city of the Hampton Roads ( or " Tidewater ") area that makes up the core of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA.
Chesepians were the first inhabitants of the area now known as Tidewater in Virginia about whom hardly anything is known.
By the time of English colonization, there were 32 Algonquian-speaking American Indian tribes in the present-day coastal Tidewater Virginia area, including those of the Patawomeck and numerous tribes that were part of the Powhatan Confederacy.
Standing between the Tidewater and Piedmont regions to the east in Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley and the area beyond ( known in old Virginia as the " Transmountaine ") were the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The city is located at the Peninsula side of Hampton Roads in the Tidewater region of Virginia, bordering the Atlantic Ocean.
In the late 17th century, especially after Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, English settlers from the Tidewater region of Virginia began to migrate to the area.
Described in the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia papers of 1796 as a “ two-story wooden structure w / addition & a cellar floored in stone w / kitchen ”, Violet Bank originally fit an almost canonized two-over-two centre hall plan typical of the late colonial Tidewater Virginia.
Violet Bank originally bore a strong resemblance to the still extant Weston Manor in Hopewell, Virginia, utilizing an almost canonized two-over-two centre hall plan typical of late colonial Tidewater Virginia.
Tidewater Council is the local council of the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA ) that serves southeastern Virginia and north-eastern North Carolina.
This region is often referred to as South Hampton Roads or the Tidewater or Tidewater Virginia area ; hence the name of the council.
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Six of the railroads carrying coal to Tidewater from the Pennsylvania fields, Hearst said, not only had illegal agreements with coal operators but owned outright at least eleven mines.
A campsite at Tidewater Provincial Park provides large campgrounds with firepits and outhouses on an island across the river from the town.
Western settlement began in the 1720s and 1730s with Quakers, Scots-Irish, Germans and others moving south from Pennsylvania and Maryland and by English and African slaves moving upriver from Tidewater.
Many of the early settlers of what became Clarke County were children of Tidewater planters, who settled on large land grants from Lord Fairfax.
During the American Civil War, numerous planter families from the Tidewater sought refuge in Rocky Mount, and many brought their slaves with them.
* A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth, 1993
Opechancanough liked the interior country so much that he sent his son Sheewa-a-nee from the Tidewater with a large party to colonize the valley.
Beginning about 1767, some of the ancestors of the Melungeons moved from the Tidewater area northwest to the frontier New River area of Virginia, where they are listed on tax lists of Montgomery County, Virginia, in the 1780s.
In all, nearly of wetland was purchased or donated ( most from or by the owners, Lee Tidewater Cypress Center Co. and Collier Enterprises ).
Over in Virginia, another intrastate railroad, the Tidewater Railway, was formed in 1904, with right-of-way all the way across the southern tier of Virginia from Giles County ( which borders West Virginia ) to Norfolk County on Hampton Roads.
Although Congress banned the slave trade in 1808, Georgia's slave population continued to grow with the importation of slaves from the plantations of the South Carolina Low Country and Chesapeake Tidewater, increasing from 149, 656 in 1820 to 280, 944 in 1840.
Downstream of the rapids, the river receives Scott Creek, Slide Creek, and Hatchery Creek, all from the right, and Line Creek from the left before reaching the unincorporated community of Tidewater, about from the mouth.
Between Tidewater and Alsea Bay, the river receives Mill Creek and Squaw Creek from the right, Canal Creek from the left, Risley Creek from the right, passes under Oregon Route 34, which then parallels the river on the south or left, and receives Arnold Creek from the left at about from the mouth.
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