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Old 09-29-2012, 09:56 PM
 
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So I was watching a few clips from Disney's Pocahontas on youtube. Just catching up on childhood things. Haven't watched it in awhile. I was always fascinated by how beautiful the scenery was. And just watching it again, revived those same feelings. It is truely gorgeous scenery. I know it's just animation but they are so talented - they made it look life like and like some kind of foresty paradise. I wanted to see those sights so badly. I was wondering if Virginia in the 1600s looked anything like what the movie depicted? Or is there anywhere in Virginia that looks like that?
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Old 09-29-2012, 11:11 PM
 
Location: Jersey City
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It's been years since I've seen that movie, but I indeed remember forests, and rivers, and mountains. Virginia has all of those things, but Jamestown was established in a swamp. If Pocahontas and John Smith wanted to run over mountains and canoe over waterfalls, they would have had to travel for a week to find them. Jamestown is on a coastal plain that is flat as a pancake.
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Old 09-30-2012, 06:14 AM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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In some places like where I live there are probably more trees now than back when it was a plantation.
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Old 10-02-2012, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Ca2Mo2Ga2Va!
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i'm pretty sure a lot of virginia still looks that way! at least the area i live in!
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Old 11-20-2012, 11:32 AM
 
Location: Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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haha no. Not in that part of VA anyway. I remember when I was younger and went to see that movie and my parents laughing cause they actually grew up near Jamestown and it looks nothing like that. Quite the opposite.

Virginia is gorgeous though. You can see that sort of terrain from the movie further west in the state when you get near the mountains. But Jamestown is located on swampy land that is below sea level and a lot flatter. It is very forested though and gorgeous just not in that mountainous way with waterfalls everywhere. If you wanna see that, I would suggest southwest Virginia or the Shenandoah Valley.
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Old 11-24-2012, 08:17 PM
 
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In some places like where I live there are probably more trees now than back when it was a plantation.
This is the case for most of the eastern seaboard. Forests have returned thanks to changing industry and regulations, and the rural areas of the Eastern Seaboard look a whole lot different than they did in 1910.
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Old 11-28-2012, 08:14 PM
 
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Hopefully, there has been a crackdown on 40 yo men going out with 10 yo girls.
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Old 11-29-2012, 07:55 AM
 
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Hopefully, there has been a crackdown on 40 yo men going out with 10 yo girls.
There's a big discussion on the VA sex offender registry going on right now over on the NoVA forum.
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