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Nottoway

American  
[not-uh-way] / ˈnɒt əˌweɪ /

noun

  1. a river in S Virginia, flowing SE to the Blackwater River at the North Carolina border. 170 miles (274 km) long.


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Baldwin is a public school teacher in Nottoway County who has barely raised any money.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2020

After the game was released in 2010, Julianne Jennings, an anthropology professor and member of the Cheroenhaka Nottoway tribe, organized a protest over it.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019

They are vying to represent a sprawling district that is a mix of Richmond suburbs and rural areas stretching from Culpeper County in the north to Nottoway County in the south.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2018

Ostentation triumphed along the lower Mississippi, where Louisiana sugar planter John Andrews built his 75-room mansion Belle Grove in the late 1850s to overshadow neighboring Nottoway with its 64 rooms.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

"The Nottoway was higher than the Rappahannock is to-night, and you did not expect to meet me again—so soon!"

From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by John Esten Cooke

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