Dan River
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office confirmed late Monday that searchers recovered the body of Teresa Villano, 35, in the Dan River near the Draper Boat Landing.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2021
In 2014, a break in a pond at Duke Energy’s plant in Eden, N.C., sent 27 million gallons of sludge into the Dan River.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2020
“You know the thing with the Tennessee Valley river spill, and the same thing with the Dan River spill, a lot of that ash was never recovered,” Lisa Evans, a lawyer with Earthjustice, said.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2018
Another accident at a Duke Energy facility in North Carolina in February 2014 resulted in thousands of tons of coal ash pouring into the Dan River.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2017
In consequence of his proclamations and the retreat of General Greene across Dan River, several hundred Tories collected under Colonel John Pyle and started to join Lord Cornwallis.
From School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by Moore, John W. (John Wheeler)
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