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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 .
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia. List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers in West Virginia.
Clip from John Senex map c. 1710 showing the people Captain Vielle passed by to arrive in Chaouenon's country as the French Jesuit called the Shawnee.. For nearly 15 years, missionaries and "coureurs de bois" confused ideas of a "beautiful River, large, wide, deep, and worthy of comparison . . . with our great river St. Lawrence" that in 1660 and 1662 they were able to describe a river below ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Pages in category "Rivers of West Virginia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 474 total.
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]
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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.