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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

Chief Walter D. “Red Hawk” Brown III, who represents the 400 members of the Cheroenhaka Nottoway tribe, said he was honored to be involved in providing context during the planning process.

From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2021

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

By 1674 some of the colonists had crossed this line and were settling on the territory of the Nottoway Indians.

From Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 by Robinson, Walter Stitt

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