Appalachian Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, Allegheny Mountains
Bays
Chesapeake Bay
Valleys/Passes
Shenandoah Valley, Cumberland Gap
Natural Regions
Piedmont, Tidewater
Other Physical Features
Delmarva Peninsula , Cape Charles, Great Dismal Swamp
Rivers
James, Roanoke, Rappahannock, Potomac, Shenandoah, New, York
Highest Point
Mount Rogers
Islands
Assateague Island
Bordering States
Maryland (north), District of Columbia* (north), West Virginia (west), Kentucky (southwest), Tennessee (southwest), North Carolina (south) * Not a state, but a federal district
National Parks
Shenandoah NP
Key Products
Dairy products, Tobacco, Government
Natural Resources
Coal (Virginia is one of the top 10 coal producing states in the nation)
Virginia - History
1607
Jamestown becomes first permanent British settlement in the Americas
1788
10th state to ratify constitution
Present Day
Coal is Virginia’s leading mining product
Virginia - Facts
Virginia is known as the "Mother of Presidents" because eight US presidents were born here
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel links the Delmarva Peninsula at Cape Charles with mainland Virginia at Norfolk
Virginia is known for its profound history. The American Revolution officialy ended at Yorktown, within 15 miles of Jamestown. Also, the final surrenders of the Civil War ended at Appomattox, an inland port on the Appomattox River, a tributary of the longer James
Mount Vernon, a suburb of Alexandria overlooking the Potomac, was home to George Washington who lived here from 1747 until his deathin 1799
Richmond was capital of the Confederacy
Williamsburg served as the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1779
Virginia is one of the few states that uses the term commonwealth in its name; the others include Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Kentucky
The most famous of all general officers serving the Confederacy was Robert.E.Lee, who is honored today by Arlington National Cemetary in Arlington, which stands on what was previously his home. Robert.E.Lee surrendered to Ulysses.S.Grant, the at Appomattox Courthouse, thus ending the Civil War
Hampton Roads, a deepwater harbor formed as the James river empties into Chesapeake Bay, is Virginia’s key manufacturing and shipping center, with the major ports of Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth located on and around its banks
The Pentagon is the world’s largest office building and is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense
The region east of the Piedmont and seperated from it by the fall Line is the Tidewater, a flat, coastal plain which extends south to Florida and west to Texas, and includes the entire Atlantic and Gulf Coastal plains of the US
More than 200 kinds of bird species are found in the Great Dismal Swamp of saoutheastern Virginia, extending into North Carolina