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Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . ital, Gooch-land Court House. Population, 10,352, of whom 4507 werefree, and 5845 slaves. Goochland Court House, a post village, capital of Goochlandcounty, Virginia, one mile N. from James river, and 28 W. fromEichmond. GoosE Creek, in the N. E. part of Virginia, rises in Fauquiercounty, flows north-eastward, crosses Loudoun county, and fallsinto the Potomac four miles E.
Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . ital, Gooch-land Court House. Population, 10,352, of whom 4507 werefree, and 5845 slaves. Goochland Court House, a post village, capital of Goochlandcounty, Virginia, one mile N. from James river, and 28 W. fromEichmond. GoosE Creek, in the N. E. part of Virginia, rises in Fauquiercounty, flows north-eastward, crosses Loudoun county, and fallsinto the Potomac four miles E. from Leesburg, after a course ofnearly 50 miles. GoRDONSViLLE, a post village of Orange county, Virginia, onthe Central railroad, and at the terminus of the Orange andAlexandria railroad, 70 miles N. W. from Eichmond. GospoRT.—See Portsmouth. Granville, a post village of Monongalia county, Virginia, onthe Monongahela river, 295 miles N. W. from Eichmond. Grape Island, a post office of Tyler county, Virginia. Grave Creek, a thriving post village, capital of Marshallcounty, Virginia, is pleasantly situated on the left bank of theOhio, twelve miles below Wheeling. Big and Little Grave 248 RICHMOND BUSINESS GR GAZETTEER OF VIRtSINIA. 249 creeks enter the river here, leaving an interval of a mile inwidth, on which the village is built. It is divided into two dis-tinct villages, of nearly equal size, namely, Elizabethtown andMoundsville, the former of which is the seat of justice. Thename of the post office is Grave creek. The town contains aclassical academy, two steam flouring mills, and about 1200 in-habitants. Moundsville derives its name from the mammothmound, in the vicinity, one of the largest in the United States- Gravel Spring, a post office of Frederick county, Virginia. Graves Mills, a post office of Washington county, Virginia,108 miles N. W. from Richmond. Grayson, a county in the S. S. W. part of Virginia, borderingon North Carolina, contains 340 square m
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