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Posted By:
Don Maxwell
Date Posted:
Jan 31, 2022
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Just east of the Splat Brothers Park. This area has been settled and unsettled many times by Native Americans and European invaders. It's been forest and cropland--tobacco and cotton--and forest again. Now there's a new crop: electrons.
The deepest part of the James River is that narrow stretch just right of or center. The nautical charts say it's 95 feet deep there. It's essentially sea level at the surface. All I know is that most of Virginia drains right through there. (After heavy rains, much of Richmond, which has an ancient combined sewer system that occasionally overflows, flushes through it.)
A couple of bends farther downstream is the Surrey nuclear power plant. And then Jamestown Island, where John Rolfe met and married Pocahontas, who went by Rebecca thereafter, until she died in England in 1617.
Date Taken:
2022-01-29
Place Taken:
Same as before--SE Central Virginia
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Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Jan 31,2022
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Jamestown Island today--well, what little of it you can see while flying by at 50 or 60 feet MSL. It's a lo-res, herky-jerky video: the John Smith phallus and some of the National Park and a few buildings reconstructed on the unearthed original foundations. The National Park is actually quite interesting--archaeology in progress, a glass-blowing furnace, and the like. There's a commercial park, too, but it has been unvisited by me.
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