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The river we know today as the New River was first named in 1654 by Col Abraham Wood who came from Petersburg to establish trade with the Indians. He called it Wood's River.
In the days before the American Revolution our New River was also called the Great Kanawha and the Great Canhoway which in the Indian tongue means "New Water." Although the reason for the present name is lost in history, some have suggested that the New River was named after Francis New, an early ferryman.

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In 1952, the Scientific American Geologists call the prehistoric stream bed of the New River the "Teays,'claiming that it is millions of years old, and that only the Nile River is older. The ancient Teays was a mighty stream which started near a mountain summit east of Blowing Rock, and drained all of the region to the northwest until it entered a prehistoric seas near present day St.Louis.

Most scientists today agree that the New River is very old and certainly the oldest river in the northern hemisphere.

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