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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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But Nottoway County in Virginia — population of about 15,000, hosts Ft.

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

The 7th District is a mix of rural and suburban areas stretching from Culpeper to Nottoway County.

From Washington Post May 18, 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

During the year 1781, while reconnoitring alone, and stopping at a house in Amelia, now Nottoway, he was made prisoner by a detachment of Tarleton's dragoons.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles

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