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The Native Americans had named the river Walatoola, which means "winding waters", describing the great bends in the river. However, when British settlers arrived in the 1720s they named it the Cowpasture. There is an interesting story about how the Cowpasture and neighboring rivers the Bullpasture River and Calfpasture River came to be so named ...
The Jackson River is a major tributary of the James River in the U.S. state of Virginia, flowing 96.4 miles (155.1 km). [3] The James River is formed by the confluence of the Jackson River and the Cowpasture River .
Cowpasture River. Stuart Run; Bullpasture River; Jackson River. Potts Creek; Dunlap Creek. Ogle Creek (Virginia) ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Virginia (1974)
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]
Cowpasture River; J. Jackson River (Virginia) This page was last edited on 24 June 2017, at 22:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Just north of Williamsville. The Bullpasture River is a 26.2-mile-long (42.2 km) [1] tributary of the Cowpasture River of Virginia in the United States.. The Bullpasture River flows through Highland County, Virginia from its headwaters on the boundary between Virginia and West Virginia northwest of the village of Doe Hill, Virginia.
Back Creek (Jackson River tributary) Back Creek (Potomac River tributary) Back River (Virginia) Bailey Creek (Hopewell, Virginia) Banister River; Bar Branch (Sandy Creek tributary) Bearskin Creek (Banister River tributary) Bennett Creek (Nansemond River tributary) Big Branch (Aarons Creek tributary) Big Mountain Branch (Aarons Creek tributary ...
Botetourt County, Virginia, from 1895 state map. First proposed in the House of Burgesses in 1767, Botetourt County was created in 1770 from Augusta County. [3] The county is named for Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt, who served as governor of the colony of Virginia from 1768 to 1770, when he died suddenly while in office.