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Long designated as the North Branch of the James, the North Branch takes its name from "River Anne", to honor Queen Anne (1665-1714), then monarch of England, and so of the Virginia Colony as well. | Long designated as the North Branch of the James, the North Branch takes its name from "River Anne", to honor Queen Anne (1665-1714), then monarch of England, and so of the Virginia Colony as well. | ||
<ref> | <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rivannariver.org/documents/RCS-Rivanna-River-History.pdf|format=pdf|title=Rivanna River History|publisher=[[Rivanna Conservation Society]]|accessdate=12 Jun 2009|author=Lindsay Nolting and J. Stephen Pence}}</ref> | ||
A ten-mile stretch of the river from the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir to the Woolen Mills area was designated by the General Assembly as part of Virginia's Scenic Rivers System<ref> | A ten-mile stretch of the river from the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir to the Woolen Mills area was designated by the General Assembly as part of Virginia's Scenic Rivers System<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.richmondsunlight.com/bill/2009/sb957/|accessdate=08 Sept. 2009.|title=Rivanna Scenic River; expands to include length of waterway from South Fork Rivanna River reservoir. (SB957)|work=Richmond Sunlight}}</ref>. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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The Rivanna River is about 50 miles long and a tributary of the James River at Columbia.
Long designated as the North Branch of the James, the North Branch takes its name from "River Anne", to honor Queen Anne (1665-1714), then monarch of England, and so of the Virginia Colony as well. [1]
A ten-mile stretch of the river from the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir to the Woolen Mills area was designated by the General Assembly as part of Virginia's Scenic Rivers System[2].
References
- ↑ Web. pdf. Rivanna River History, Lindsay Nolting and J. Stephen Pence, Rivanna Conservation Society, retrieved 12 Jun 2009.
- ↑ Web. Rivanna Scenic River; expands to include length of waterway from South Fork Rivanna River reservoir. (SB957), Richmond Sunlight, retrieved 08 Sept. 2009..
External links
- A Brief History of the Rivanna River Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia
- Rivanna River on wikipedia