The Rappahannock River is one of the nation's treasures, yet many might struggle to point to it on a map. It's a huge river, stretching from its headwaters in the Blue Ridge Mountains across the ...

GEORGE KEGLEY is editor of the Journal of the Historical Society of Western Virginia. Bill and Nancy Trout of Edenton, N.C., have added to a list of 15 valuable atlases of Virginia rivers with a ...

Another example is the Captain John Smith Water Trail, which starts in the Chesapeake Bay and maps the history up many of the Virginia and Maryland rivers flowing into the Bay. The James River is ...