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Chickahominy
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Chickahominy (chĭkəhŏm`ĭnē), river, c.90 mi (140 km) long, rising NW of Richmond, Va., and flowing SE to the James River. In the Civil War fighting was heavy along its banks.


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In December 1607, Captain John Smith was exploring the uncharted upper regions of the Chickahominy River.
That day, Harvard botanist Merritt Lyndon Fernald collected the plant's low-growing, round-leaved tuffs in two places along the edge of the Chickahominy River in Virginia.
 
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