Doswell
Doswell is an unincorporated community in Hanover County in the Central Region of the U.S. state of Virginia. Originally called Hanover Junction, it was located on the Virginia Central Railroad at a crossing of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, a north–south route.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: unincorporated community in Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Doswell, VA”, “Doswell, Virginia”, and “Hanover Junction”
- Postal code: 23047
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dominator and Eiffel Tower.
Dominator
Roller coaster
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Dominator is a floorless roller coaster located at Kings Dominion amusement park in Doswell, Virginia. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard, it originally opened in 2000 as Batman: Knight Flight at Six Flags Ohio, in Aurora, Ohio.
Eiffel Tower
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The two Eiffel Towers in Six Flags parks—one at Kings Dominion and one at Kings Island—are replicas of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. They each opened with their respective park, the first at Kings Island in 1972 and the second at Kings Dominion in 1975.
Woodstock Express
Roller coaster
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Woodstock Express is a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. It opened as Scooby-Doo in 1974 after the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character.
Doswell
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Hanover, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.8601° or 37° 51′ 37″ northLongitude
-77.4641° or 77° 27′ 51″ westElevation
154 feet (47 metres)United Nations Location Code
US DOSOpen location code
8794VG6P+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 158646340OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4756225Wikidata ID
Q5299350
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Doswell” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “多思威勒”
- Chinese: “道斯威爾”
- French: “Doswell”
- Irish: “Doswell”
- Italian: “Doswell”
- Japanese: “ドスウェル”
- Japanese: “ドズウェル”
- Persian: “دوزول، ویرجینیا”
- Persian: “دوزول”
- South Azerbaijani: “دوزول، ویرجینیا”
- Swedish: “Doswell, Virginia”
- Swedish: “Doswell”
- Volapük: “Doswell (VA)”
- Volapük: “Doswell (Virginia)”
- Volapük: “Doswell, VA”
- Volapük: “Doswell, Virginia”
- Volapük: “Doswell”
- Welsh: “Doswell, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Doswell”
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