Common resident and migrant on West-side from tidewater to limit of trees; less common migrant and rare winter resident (?
The Cumberland and Tidewater Railroad, to which we had refused a further loan, went into the hands of a receiver, and the Great South Midland and Atlantic immediately bought up the remnants at its own price.
Tyler, the next county established, lies now in the northwestern part of West Virginia along the Ohio River but commemorates a Tidewater Virginian, John Tyler, Sr.
The Ulstermen who entered by Charleston were known to the inhabitants of the tidewater regions as the "Scotch-Irish.
Tidewater officials held solemn powwows with the chiefs, gave wampum strings, and forthwith incorporated.
Through Colonel Preston, his orders were conveyed to Daniel Boone, for Boone's fame had now spread from the border to the tidewater regions.
Certain clays deposited under tidewater since the last withdrawal of ice in Sweden show a remarkable succession of alternating layers thought to represent seasonal changes.
When a land surface sinks enough to permit tidewater to enter the lower ends of its valleys to form estuaries, a good example being the lower Hudson Valley.
In fact, the land was enough lower to allow tidewater to extend up the St. Lawrence Valley into the Ontario basin, and all through the Champlain-Hudson Valley.
If, for example, a region along the seaboard has reached the mature stage of erosion, and the land notably subsides relative to sea level, the tidewater will enter the lower valleys to form estuaries and the valleys are said to be "drowned.
If a portion of the relatively rugged land surface should become submerged under the sea, a very irregular, deeply indented shore line would result, due to the entrance of tidewater into the valleys.
Trenton is at the head of tidewater on the Delaware, the stream coming down rapids, known as the "Falls.
Not far above the Severn is the wide tidal estuary of the Patapsco, so named by the Indians to describe its peculiarity, the word meaning "a stream caused by back or tidewater containing froth.
The town dates from 1727, when it was founded at the head of tidewater on the Rappahannock, where a considerable fall furnishes good water-power, about one hundred and ten miles from the Chesapeake.
This canal, opened in 1828, was one hundred and seventeen miles long, and ascended from tidewater on the Hudson at Rondout to four hundred and fifty feet elevation at Port Jervis, and nine hundred and sixty-five feet at Honesdale.
Cautious members of thetidewater organization were aghast.
A law was passed by the Virginia Legislature for "opening and extending the navigation of the Potowmack river from tidewater to the highest place practicable on the north branch"; and Maryland took similar action.
A bill to this effect was presented and the tidewater machine was oiled and set in motion to put it through.
It was more--it was the ending of the hitherto unquestioned supremacy of the tidewater aristocracy.
The upper counties found a leader and fought and overcame the hitherto invincible power of the tidewater aristocracy, which, until then, had held the Government of Virginia in its lordly hand.
In Virginia one finds this warbler appearing in the Tidewaterarea "as early as March 20th," according to H.
This total of 105 cases was quite evenly distributed in the tale of years; but the territorial distribution was notably less in the long settled Tidewater district than in the newer Piedmont and Shenandoah.
They drew up across the swirling tidewater to the foot of a long pier.
The strip of sand was gradually widening and in places stretched inland for a mile in dunes and hillocks, traversed by little tidewater creeks.
The score or so of them from the Tidewater knew what an ocean was, but none of them had known that there was another one to the west.
They got about fifty of them, mostly from the cantonments east of the city--the natives brought in from the flooded tidewater area.
Pitch and tar were obtained from pine trees, one of the common trees in the Tidewater Virginia woods.
These objects and many others found, are reminders of a day when fish and shellfish lived in abundance in every creek, river, and bay, in Tidewater Virginia.
Just at this moment, too, when Lyman will scale down freight rates so we can haul to tidewater at little cost.
New England, the towns of the middle States and Maryland, the tidewater region of South Carolina, and certain parts of Virginia were the seats of the soundest political thought of the day.
At his call they gathered, defenders of the land beyond the Blue Ridge, Scotch-Irish, Protestants of Protestants, long recognised by the Cavaliers of tidewater Virginia as a mighty bulwark against the raiding red men.
Silver and pewter and mahogany bureaus, high-post bedsteads and carved mirrors, were carefully piled in the waggons as John Clark, cavalier, turned his face from tidewater Virginia.
Islands opposite to the village of these people thy have scaffolded their dead in canoes elivating them abovetidewater mark.
Columbia untill we reached tidewater where they also abound but do not bear a similar proportion to the other fowls found in this quarter.
The large bluefish brown or sandhill Crain are found in the valley of the Rocky mountains in Summer and Autumn where they raise their young, and in the winter and begining of spring on this river below tidewater and on this coast.
This form of canoe we did not meet with untill we reached tidewateror below the grand rappids.
The white brant is very common in this country particularly below tidewater where they remain in vast quantities during the winter.
A fertile soil and abundant local resources, as in tidewater Maryland and Virginia, make the land more attractive than the sea; the inhabitants become farmers rather than sailors.
The days when almost every tobacco plantation in tidewater Virginia had its own wharf are long since past, and the leaf is now exported by way of Norfolk and Baltimore.
Beyond the Battery was the Statue of Liberty and even further the tidewater flats of Jersey.
They were up early the next morning, breakfasting as the train sped out of the Jersey hills and straightened out for its dash across the tidewater flats to Jersey City.
They make a veritable school of building which once must have flourished the length and breadth of tidewater Virginia.
A few of us in very recent years are just beginning to label those English structures along tidewater which make up the bulk of Virginia architecture in the seventeenth century by the correct name, Medieval.
During those years Virginia's population increased perhaps twenty-five or thirty fold, and the settlements spread from a thin belt along the James River to the whole ofTidewater Virginia.
Since land travel was still more difficult than water travel, expansion up the Potomac, the last great unsettled tidewater river, was fastest.
Tidewater Virginia, or the Coastal Plain, as it is sometimes called, receives the name from the fact that the streams that penetrate it feel the ebb and flow of the tides from the ocean up to the head of navigation.
The fig, pomegranate, and other delicate fruits flourish in the Tidewater region.
Within Virginia the centers of tobacco production shifted from the older, worn-out Tidewater lands to the newer, richer soils along the Fall Line, on the Piedmont, and in the Northern Neck.
Their principal rivals had been northern Tidewater and Northern Neck planters led by Councilor Thomas Lee and then by Richard Henry Lee.
Most Tidewater planters did not realize fully what was happening to them, presuming at first that they were just in another swing of the unpredictable tobacco business cycle, and were not caught in a situation which would be permanent.
Enough Tidewater votes were corralled by Robinson and Councilor Peter Randolph the following day, the 31st, to rescind and expunge from the record the fifth resolve.
The declining fortunes of the Tidewater planters and the crises of the 1760's accelerated the rise to power of all three of these new elements in the House of Burgesses.
The death of Robinson did not result in an overthrow of the Tidewater leadership.
Although these personal extravagances added to the debt structure, they would not have been so significant if they had not been accompanied by a lack of business ability among some of the younger Tidewater planters.
The result in Virginia was sheer consternation, especially among the hard-pressed Tidewater planters.
At his death in May 1766 an audit revealed massive shortages in his treasurer's account books resulting from heavy loans to many Tidewater gentry and political associates.
Expansion required capital, however, and many of the Tidewater tobacco planters whose holdings had been created through proprietary grants obtained the necessary funds by selling off portions of their Tidewater holdings.
Therefore, by 1750 there was only a basic network of roadways running east-west to the passes in the Blue Ridge and north-south to the colonial capital of Williamsburg along the Tidewater and to the Carolinas through the Piedmont.
Tidewater Virginia in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries relied mainly on coastal waterways and rivers as avenues of commerce and travel.
Green Spring Farm was not one of the great estates of Tidewater Virginia.
The original core of the building illustrates a design which was typical of the colonial era in Tidewater Virginia.
Many of the small farmers of the Tidewater remained as committed to tobacco as the great planters had been.
During the eighteenth century, tobacco planters of the Virginia Tidewater had turned inland, clearing the forested area of the Piedmont to bring virgin land into production of their crop.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tidewater" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
