Point of Fork

Two rivers. The big one was known by aboriginal inhabitants as Powhatan's River; now it's the James. The other one is the Rivanna. Also the site of a Revolutionary debacle when, on the same day that Jack Jouett warned Charlottesville about Tarleton, the general guarding Virginia's munitions here fled a British advance. Virginia's smallest town, Columbia (out of view at right), had a 2000 Census population of just 49.
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