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The James at Percival's Island Riverwalk in Lynchburg, Virginia. 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]
Dutch Gap Canal is located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia just north of the lost 17th-century town of Henricus.The canal's construction was initiated by Union forces during the American Civil War to bypass a meander loop of the river around a peninsula known as Farrar's Island that was controlled by Confederate artillery.
The James River and Kanawha Canal was a project first proposed by George Washington when he was a young man surveying the mountains of western Virginia, which at the time consisted of what is today West Virginia, Kentucky, and to the north bank of the Ohio river. He was searching for a way to open a water route to the West.
In 1990 the Varina-Enon Bridge that carries Interstate 295 (Virginia) across the James River opened just east of Rochedale. Kingsland (owned by Christopher Branch at Henricus) Spring Hill is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, double-pile, side-hall, wood-frame plantation house. The house is clad with beaded clapboards and rests upon a brick foundation laid ...
Wooden bridge to privately-owned island crosses a side-channel of the James River. The main shipping channel lies to the south in the Aiken Swamp-Dutch Gap Cutoff: Cox's Ferry: SR 615 (Coxendale Road) at Osborne's Landing Cox's Landing: Abandoned Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge: SR 895: Bensley to northwest of Varina: 2002 37°26′31″N 77 ...
James River James drainage basin. ... (North Carolina–Virginia) Little River (North River tributary) ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Virginia (1974)
The James River Gorge is a water gap created by the James River in Central Virginia. The Gorge is 2,433 feet (742 m) [ 1 ] deep as measured from Highcock Knob 3,073 feet (937 m) [ 1 ] to the James River 640 feet (200 m) [ 1 ] and is approximately 9.3 miles (15.0 km) [ 2 ] long.
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