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Nottoway

American  
[not-uh-wey] / ˈnɒt əˌweɪ /

noun

  1. a river in S Virginia, flowing SE to the Blackwater River at the North Carolina border. 170 miles (274 km) long.


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Nottoway officials didn’t respond to inquiries for this story.

From Washington Times • Jan. 27, 2022

Friends on the Madison and Edison teams texted about meeting on the outdoor courts at Nottoway Park in Vienna.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2021

Ostentation triumphed along the lower Mississippi, where Louisiana sugar planter John Andrews built his 75-room mansion Belle Grove in the late 1850s to overshadow neighboring Nottoway with its 64 rooms.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

An F.B.I. team covertly broke into Mr. Kelley’s house and found a map of Nottoway Park with X’s marked on it, which the F.B.I. was convinced was Mr. Kelley’s spy map.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2017

Nottoway River derives its name from the Indian tribe and the county honors both. 1790-1800 Expansion in the First Decade After the Revolution The next year a county was cut from Montgomery and named Wythe.

From How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation by Hiden, Martha Woodroof