It’s Tye River Tuesday, and in today’s post we’re going into and all the way to the bottom of the Tye River. Nearly a year ago, on September 27th 2024, the remnants of Hurricane Helene, which a day earlier…
THE FOUNDATION OF JAMES MONROE’S HIGHLAND
James Monroe was America’s 5th president and at the beginning of the 19th century he called Highland, an antebellum plantation in Virginia’s Blue Ridge foothills, home. In 1825, saddled by personal debt, Monroe sold the Highland estate and over the…
MASSIES MILL AND THE HURRICANE CAMILLE FLOOD
Tonight, 56 years ago, on August 19th to 20th 1969, the remnants of Hurricane Camille deluged Nelson County, Virginia and in the process supercharged the Tye River with high flows and flooding that had never before witnessed. Across the Blue…
CHASING THE GREAT UNCONFORMITY
For fans of Deep Time there are few things as exciting as an unconformity. An unconformity is a geologic contact separating rock masses of two different ages. Something in the rock record has gone missing or perhaps it was never…
TYE RIVER TUESDAY
This post commences a series about Virginia’s Tye River, let’s call it Tye River Tuesday. It won’t happen every Tuesday, but my aim is to write about the Tye River every third or fourth week. Where is the Tye River? It’s in central…