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Published by the Virginia Canals and Navigations Society, this book details the meanderings of the New River along its path from its head waters in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge to the Kanawha River in West Virginia. According to the Society’s website, the book includes lots of science, history and “the best river maps EVER.”
“Publication of this atlas celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the creation of the New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978, the 130th Anniversary of the Golden Spike Ceremony on January 29th, 1873 opening the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway through the New River Gorge, and the fifth anniversary of the designation of the New as an American Heritage River on July 30, 1998.”
By Wm. E. Trout, III, 8.5″ x 14″ (landscape configuration) 151 pages
© 2003 Virginia Canals and Navigations Society
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