Jamesland is a new name for a very old place: the territory defined by the drainage basin, or watershed, of the James River. It is a nation of three million covering an area the size of Massachusetts or Belgium, but its citizens are united in a way that no political state can match: by the flow of water. Every drop of rain within its bounds, from the Alleghenies to the Chesapeake, ultimately comes together to bind us in a shared history and a shared responsibility.
LEARN
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EXPLORE
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CONNECT
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