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Nottoway

American  
[not-uh-wey] / 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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Nottoway officials didn’t respond to inquiries for this story.

From Washington Times • Jan. 27, 2022

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

A state police helicopter rescued two people from the roof of a vehicle that was trapped by rising floodwaters on a Nottoway County bridge Friday.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 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 Cooke, John Esten