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Tidewater, Virginia
Tidewater, Virginia Shirley Plantation, built 1723–38, on the James River in the Tidewater region, Virginia.

Tidewater

region, Virginia, United States
Also known as: Coastal Plain
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Tidewater, natural region in eastern Virginia, U.S., comprising a low-lying alluvial plain on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay between the Atlantic Ocean and the Fall Line (a line marking the junction between the hard rocks of the Appalachians and the softer deposits of the coastal plain). It is crossed by the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James rivers and their tidal estuaries. The Great Dismal Swamp, astride the boundary with North Carolina to the south,...

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