Peninsular Cities
Highest population of any city in Virginia
VA Beach
Has a famous ship-building company here, which builds aircraft carriers
Newport News
Use to live here
Suffolk
This is where Stonewall Jackson lived
Lexington
The English settlement on a certain river gave the name.
Jamestown, on the James
Has Richardson's Restaurant
This port is big and really stinks
Norfolk
Went to a hotel in this small town and wanted to have fun in the pool but the darn manager wouldn't let us go in with other people like we were anthropophobes.
Lexington
Surrender of Lee to Grant, ending the civil war, happened in
Appomattox Court House
A slang word for river.
Rivah
Name the three cities with some bad stuff in their names
Middlesex, Sussex, Essex
Naval Weapons Station is here
Yorktown
Home to U.V.A.
Charlottesville
This city was burned by the Confederacy during the Union's offensive during the civil war
Richmond
A famous battle in the American Revolution occurred here
Yorktown
Near James City County; former capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
Field trip I went on told me about Chesapeake Bay and fishing industry here
Mathews
Home to a world wonder
Natural Bridge (actually a town AND the bridge)
This town in Northern Virginia, better known as the name of a nearby body of water, was host to the fist major (not first of all) battle in the civil war
Manassas, the battle was called Battle of Bull Run by Union troops, which most know it as, but the Confederates called in Battle of Manassas
This river runs through the District of Columbia
Potomac
Has a good point
Gloucester
Free points!
What is free points?
On the Potomac, right near the capital of the U.S.
Alexandria
Coal deposits were discovered in this county in the Appalachian plateau early in the 1900's
Tazewell County
This city in inland Virginia, on the James river, is on the fall line
Richmond