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The New River is spanned near Fayetteville, West Virginia, by the New River Gorge Bridge . "Bridge Walk" tours are offered on the 2-foot (0.61 m) wide steel catwalk running under the bridge deck. The bridge is also open for BASE jumping once annually on Bridge Day. The New River Gorge and Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia
Apparently the river had again been left off a map so Jefferson named it the New River. The name Woods and New River were used interchangeably until about 1770, when the consensus name became what it is today, the New River. [3] Human activity along the New River at New River State Park has been traced back as far as 10,000 years ago.
The New River is a 58.7-mile-long (94.5 km) [3] tributary of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Via the Big South Fork and the Cumberland and Ohio rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed. The New River rises on Frozen Head, a notable mountain of Morgan County, Tennessee.
President Jimmy Carter signed legislation establishing New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978 (Pub. L. 95–625).As stated in the legislation, the park was established as a unit of the national park system "for the purpose of conserving and interpreting outstanding natural, scenic, and historic values and objects in and around the New River Gorge, and preserving as a free-flowing ...
The most significant extension of the New River, however, was the first, an extension of the South Fork called the North New River Canal (also known as the G-15 canal). Dredging for the canal began in 1906, not long after Napoleon B. Broward won the governorship of Florida on a promise to drain the Everglades.
A new temporary bridge over the Herring River opened at the end of March as part of the Herring River restoration project. Stinson also provided some interesting facts about the temporary bridge ...
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New River, Arizona, a census-designated place in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area; Bradford County, Florida, named New River County from 1858 through 1861; New River Tunnel, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Marine Corps Air Station New River, near Jacksonville, North Carolina; New River Valley, in Virginia; New River Community College, in Virginia