Harrisons Landing is an unincorporated community in Charles City County, Virginia, United States. "Harrisons Landing". Geographic Names Information System...
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Berkeley Plantation (redirect from Harrison's Landing, Virginia)
there in the summer of 1862 to confer with Gen. George B. McClellan. The Harrisons were unable to regain possession of the plantation after the war, and...
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daughter, Anna Carter (Harrison) Adams. The Harrisons lived in Surry County. In 1800, Harrison settled in Prince George County, Virginia at Maycox, along the...
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batteries which were firing on another group of transports near Harrison's Landing, Virginia on the James River. Throughout the embattled South, Union gunboats...
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Brigade, 1st Division, V Army Corps, Army of the Potomac while at Harrison's Landing, Virginia in July 1862, and wrote it to replace the customary firing of...
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This is a list of state parks and reserves in the Virginia state park system. Virginia opened its entire state park system on 15 June 1936 as a six-park...
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John Sedgwick (category Deaths by firearm in Virginia)
designated the 2nd division of the II Corps for the Peninsula Campaign. In Virginia, he fought at Yorktown and Seven Pines. During the Seven Days Battles,...
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harbor forces in New York. While the Union Army recuperated at Harrison's Landing, Virginia, from its grueling withdrawal during the Seven Days Battles,...
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Apollo 11 (redirect from 1969 moon landing)
hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing. Armstrong and Aldrin collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material...
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000 cubic feet (400 m3) of gas. He travelled ten miles (16 km) before landing. Donaldson was a convert to John Wise's theory of a constant current blowing...
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then to Camp Hamilton, Virginia, June 25–28, and to Harrison's Landing, Virginia, July 4. Duty at Harrison's Landing, Virginia, until August 16, 1862...
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Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast...
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independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is also the county seat of the surrounding Rockingham...
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Sackett (seated center) with Colonel Albert V. Colburn and General John Sedgwick in Harrison's Landing, Virginia, during the Peninsula Campaign, 1862....
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Henry C. Thompson 184th New York, Company I: Cpt George Wetmore Harrison's Landing, Virginia Col Wardwell G. Robinson 184th New York: Ltc William P. McKinley...
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of Harrison Ford Landing His Private Jet in Santa Monica Archived November 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine www.zimbio.com Donaldson, Lynn. "Harrison Ford...
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(VDOT). It is named after Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a Governor of Virginia, who lived nearby at Berkeley Plantation...
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actual authority of governing Virginia. The Virginia Company soon abandoned governance by council two years after the landing on May 23, 1609, and replacing...
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Landing State Park (formerly Seashore State Park) offers recreational opportunities at Cape Henry in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia...
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Belle Plains, Virginia (sometimes spelled as Belle Plain) was a steamboat landing and unincorporated settlement on the south bank of Potomac Creek off...
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Berkeley Hundred (category Colony of Virginia)
became known as Berkeley Plantation, the traditional home of the Harrison family of Virginia. In 1862, amid fighting in the Civil War, the area was the scene...
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Seven Days Battles (June 25, 1862 – July 1, 1862) Battle of Harrison's Landing, Virginia (August 2 – 8, 1862) Battle of Middletown, Maryland (September...
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State Route 31 (SR 31) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs 24.56 miles (39.53 km) from U.S. Route 460 (US...
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County, West Virginia, one of six sons to William L. Summers and Florence Swisher. Summers worked as a coal miner in Rivesville, West Virginia. A bridge...
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supplies from: Fort Monroe, Virginia (March to May, 1862); White House, Virginia (May to June, 1862); and Harrison's Landing, Virginia (July to August 1862)...
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Apollo program (redirect from Apollo Moon landing)
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men on the Moon in 1969. It was first conceived in 1960 during...
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also the site of the first landing of Africans in America, in 1619. After declaring independence from Great Britain, Virginia's first state capital was Williamsburg...
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Jennings (born 30 October 1965) is an American actress. She played Virginia Harrison in the NBC soap opera Sunset Beach. Jennings was born in Stockholm...
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simply Arlington, is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly...
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Historic Jamestown (category 1607 establishments in the Colony of Virginia)
Jamestown, Virginia, and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities)...
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