Virginia

Virginia, a southeastern U.S. state, stretches from the Chesapeake Bay to the Appalachian Mountains, with a long Atlantic coastline. It’s one of the 13 original colonies, with historic landmarks including Monticello, founding father Thomas Jefferson’s iconic Charlottesville plantation. The Jamestown Settlement and Colonial Williamsburg are living-history museums reenacting Colonial and Revolutionary-era life.

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Chemical leak at a West Virginia plant kills 2 people, sends 30 more to hospitals, officials say | AP News

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Chemical leak at a West Virginia plant kills 2 people, sends 30 more to hospitals, officials say | AP News

INSTITUTE, W.Va. (AP) — A chemical leak at a West Virginia silver recovery business on Wednesday killed two people and sent about 30 others to hospitals, including one in serious condition, authorities said.

The leak occurred at the Catalyst Refiners plant in Institute as workers were preparing to shut down at least part of the facility, Kanawha County Commission Emergency Management Director C.W. Sigman said.

 

Fort Valley

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Fort Valley is a mountain valley located primarily in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It is often called "valley within a valley" as it lies between the two arms of the northern part of the Blue Ridge mountain range in the Shenandoah Valley in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians geological zone.

Harrisonburg, VA Land Use

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Harrisonburg, Virginia is located the heart of the Shenandoah Valley and is a sprawling college town, surrounded by rolling farm country, much of which is used for crop production -- corn for chicken, cattle and hogs but also a lot of forages. Heading to the west into West Virginia, you leave the farm country away for the hills and mountains of West Virginia.