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- ↑ "Powhite Creek". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved August 30, 2021.
- ↑ "Powhite Creek in Hanover County VA." Virginia Gazetteer. Retrieved Aug. 6, 2021.
- ↑ Gannet, Henry (1904). Gazetter of Virginia. Washington: United States Geological Survey, p. 121.
- ↑ "Powhite Creek Topo Map in Hanover County VA." Topozone. Retrieved Aug. 6, 2021.
- ↑ Harris, Malcolm Hart (1977). Old New Kent [Virginia]. Clearfield, vol. 1, p. 221.
- ↑ Sears, Stephen W. (1992). To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign. New York: Ticknor and Fields, pp. 217–19.