Virginia
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- Names
Virginia
VA
- Place Type
- state
- Description
- Inhabited by Tutelo Indians, Powhatan, Conoy & others; English settled here in early 17th cen., had white & black indentured servants, later employed slaves; fought in American Revolution; joined Confederacy & was site of bloody battles in Civil War.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Rand McNally Road Atlas, USA (1986); Times Atlas of the World (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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