the confluence of the Nottoway River and the Blackwater River, at the Virginia-North Carolina border, is the beginning of the Chowan River
Source: US Geological Survey (USGS), Streamer
the confluence of the Nottoway River and the Blackwater River, at the Virginia-North Carolina border, is the beginning of the Chowan River
Source: US Geological Survey (USGS), Streamer
Jedediah Hotchkiss mapped Nottoway Falls in 1871
Source: Library of Congress, Preliminary map of Lunenburg County, Virginia (1871)
segments of the Meherrin, Nottoway, and Blackwater rivers have been designated as state scenic rivers
Source: Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Virginia Outdoors Plan Mapper
the Nottoway River watershed stretches from Prince Edward County to the North Carolina border
Source: US Geological Survey (USGS), TNM Download
in 1861, railroads and plank roads carried crops from the Nottoway River watershed to Petersburg and Portsmouth
Source: Library of Congress, Colton's new topographical map of the eastern portion of the state of North Carolina with part of Virginia & South Carolina (by Joseph H. Colton, 1861)