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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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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

Hailstone said Brat met with every constituent who signed up for the office hours, which were held in all 10 counties in his central Virginia district, stretching from Culpeper to Nottoway County.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 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

Vast tracts of land were available there, and Calthrope, still land hungry, acquired acreage in the Nottoway region, on which his great grandson was living in 1756.

From Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Jester, Annie Lash