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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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Others lived and worked at Nottoway Quarter, the school’s tobacco plantation.

From Washington Post May 7, 2022

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

From Washington Times Jun. 19, 2020

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

An F.B.I. team covertly broke into Mr. Kelley’s house and found a map of Nottoway Park with X’s marked on it, which the F.B.I. was convinced was Mr. Kelley’s spy map.

From New York Times Mar. 29, 2017

From beyond the woods came the hollow roar of the Nottoway, which was swollen by a freshet.

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

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