Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. |
Date: | Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:34:57 -0500 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Here are some general images and discussion of that extensive "fall
line": http://www.virginiaplaces.org/regions/fallshape.html .
Joel Kovarsky
On 1/14/2016 12:12 PM, Ken Grabach wrote:
> For what it's worth, there are waterfalls at the geographical boundary
> between the Tidewater coastal plain and the Piedmont. It's referred
> to as the "fall line". It appears near Petersburg on the Appomatox
> River (on the north side is the community of Matoaca, named for
> Pocahontas's real name), at Richmond on the James, and at Great Falls
> on the Potomac, near Washington, D.C. Richmond and Petersburg were
> founded there for the water power generated by rapids and falls. I
> can't speak to the height of the falls in the movie, nor to gold mines
> in the vicinity (probably not really there) but falls, yes.
>
> Ken Grabach
> Maps Librarian
> BEST Library, 219D
> Miami University Libraries
> Oxford, OH 45056 USA
|
|
|