Nottoway River

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The Nottoway River is a river in southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. It is part of the Chowan River system, which flows into Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Virginia portion of the river has an abrupt fall line.[1] It has many waterfalls, one after the other.[1] Past Cortland, Virginia it joins the Blackwater river before it flows into North Carolina. The Nottoway has large areas of Cypress groves that supports a logging industry. Archaeologists have been working at a site at Cactus Hill, Virginia (about 45 miles south of Richmond, Virginia) since 1995.[2] The site was occupied by humans as early as 15,000 years ago.[2] It is one of the two earliest known places where humans lived in the eastern United States.[2]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Virginia Rivers, canoeing in Virginia; Nottoway River". Canoeing in Virginia. 17 May 2012. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lucinda McWeeney (2000). "Pre-Clovis Occupation on the Nottoway River in Virginia". Athena Review Vol.2, no.3. Athena Publications, Inc. Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2014.