Foxwells is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County in the U. S. state of Virginia.
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Westland is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County in the U. S. state of Virginia.
It is adjacent to Foxwells, on a peninsula north of the outlet of the Rappahannock River into Chesapeake Bay.
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Palmer is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County in the U. S. state of Virginia. Palmer is near, but not in, the flood zone. Further down from Palmer are the flooded portions of Windmill Point. It was once owned by a few families and was inhabited by lifelong residents. Many houses were later bought by people new to the community. Weekend visitors come from Northern Virginia, Richmond, Charlottesville, and Maryland.
Palmer has beaches, and there is an island in front of the community in Mosquito Creek.
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The Rappahannock River is a river in eastern Virginia, in the United States, approximately 195 miles in length. It traverses the entire northern part of the state, from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the west where it rises, across the Piedmont to the Fall Line, and onward through the coastal plain to flow into the Chesapeake Bay, south of the Potomac River.
An important river in American history, the Rappahannock was long an area of occupation by indigenous peoples, including the Rappahannock Tribe. Similarly, during the colonial era, early settlements in the Virginia Colony were formed along the river.
During the American Civil War, due to the river's acting as a barrier to north–south troop movements, it effectively functioned as the boundary of the eastern theater of the war, between the "North" and the "South". It was at the center of a major theater of battle where tens of thousands of troops fought against each other. In this period some 10,000 enslaved African Americans escaped to freedom across the river to Union lines, after the first Battle of Fredericksburg.
The river drains an area of 2,848 square miles, approximately 6% of Virginia. Much of the watershed is rural and forested. Development in the area has increased since the late 20th century with the southward expansion of the metropolitan Washington, D.C. suburbs.
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The Windmill Point Light was a lighthouse located at the mouth of the Rappahannock River.
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Stingray Point is an unincorporated community on the Chesapeake Bay near the village of Deltaville in Middlesex County, Virginia, United States. It is located at the eastern terminus of State Route 33. The community is populated by fewer than 250 full-time residents; however, during summer months that population surges as tourists and vacationers flock to Deltaville for recreation on the bay. Most of the houses on Stingray Point are cottages and weekend homes. Stingray Point is also home to Stingray Point Marina, one of the Deltaville area's many marinas.
Stingray Point derives its name from the 17th century, when Captain John Smith was stung while fishing with his men off a shoal near the point by a stingray, either an Atlantic stingray, a Cownose ray, or a Dasyatis sp. Smith was seriously injured by the sting, and even gave orders to his men as to the disposal of his body should he perish. Treated with hot compresses, he recovered well enough by evening that he dined on the ray.
Local legend records that he was saved by a mudpack derived from mud found at a nearby creek and administered by a native medicine man; the creek has since been known as Antipoison Creek.
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