thornton, river, mile, long, river, state, virginia, rises, thornton, shenandoah, national, park, flows, east, through, rappahannock, county, running, parallel, route, until, reaches, town, sperryville, continuing, east, into, culpeper, county, joins, hazel, r. The Thornton River is a 27 9 mile long 44 9 km 1 river in the U S state of Virginia It rises at Thornton Gap in Shenandoah National Park and flows east through Rappahannock County running parallel to U S Route 211 until it reaches the town of Sperryville Continuing east into Culpeper County the Thornton River joins the Hazel River a tributary of the Rappahannock River and thus part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed The Thornton River near Sperryville Bank of the river near Sperryville Fletcher s Mill was a historic mill on the river at 38 38 50 N 78 12 23 W 38 64722 N 78 20641 W 38 64722 78 20641 Fletcher s Mill site at Fletcher Mill Virginia 2 3 See also editList of rivers in VirginiaReferences edit U S Geological Survey National Hydrography Dataset high resolution flowline data The National Map accessed April 1 2011 Fletchers Mill in Sperryville in an early 1980s photo and pic of Fletcher s Mill circa 1870 Fletchers Mill VA photographed in 2018 A Trip Among Some Old Mills in Virginia American Miller November 1 1919 p 1034 Chicago IL est 1873 Available in a google book 38 36 09 N 78 00 10 W 38 6026 N 78 0028 W 38 6026 78 0028 nbsp This Rappahannock County Virginia state location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte This article related to a river in Virginia is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Thornton River amp oldid 1149531090, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
