Tuckahoe is a Native American word that may refer to:
Plants and fungi
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Peltandra virginica
''Peltandra virginica'' is a plant of the arum family known as green arrow arum and tuckahoe. It is widely distributed in wetlands in the eastern United States, as well as in Quebec, Ontario, and Cuba.Whigham, Dennis F., Robert L. Simpson and Ma ...
'', also called tuckahoe; the rhizome was cooked and used as food by Native Americans
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Orontium aquaticum'', also called tuckahoe; the seeds and rhizome were used as food by Native Americans
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Wolfiporia extensa
''Wolfiporia extensa'' (Peck) Ginns (''syn.'' ''Poria cocos'' F.A.Wolf) is a fungus in the family Polyporaceae. It is a wood-decay fungus but has a subterranean growth habit. It is notable in the development of a large, long-lasting undergrou ...
'', also called tuckahoe; the sclerotium of a fungus used as food by Native Americans and by the Chinese as a medicinal
Buildings in the United States
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Tuckahoe Plantation
Tuckahoe is a Native American word that may refer to:
Plants and fungi
*''Peltandra virginica'', also called tuckahoe; the rhizome was cooked and used as food by Native Americans
*'' Orontium aquaticum'', also called tuckahoe; the seeds and rhi ...
, boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson, Virginia
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Tuckahoe (Jensen Beach, Florida) or the Leach Mansion, Jensen Beach, Florida
Natural formations in the United States
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Tuckahoe Bay, in South Carolina
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Tuckahoe Creek
Tuckahoe Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is sometimes (erroneously) referred to as ...
, in Maryland
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Tuckahoe River (disambiguation)
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Tuckahoe Group, geologic group, Virginia
Places in the United States
Maryland
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Tuckahoe State Park
Tuckahoe State Park is a public recreation area located along Tuckahoe Creek in Caroline and Queen Anne's counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, United States. Adkins Arboretum, a garden and preserve maintaining over 600 native plant specie ...
, a public park in Maryland
Missouri
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Tuckahoe, Missouri Tuckahoe is an unincorporated community in Jasper County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
History
Tuckahoe had its start in the 1870s as a mining community
A mining community, also known as a mining town or a mining camp, is a community tha ...
, an unincorporated community
New Jersey
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Tuckahoe, New Jersey
Tuckahoe is a census-designated place unincorporated community located within Upper Township in Cape May County of New Jersey.
History
The tuckahoe was pounded into pulp by local Native Americans and used for cooking and baking, as flour ...
, an unincorporated community in Upper Township, Cape May County
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Tuckahoe station (New Jersey)
Tuckahoe is a disused train station located in the Tuckahoe section of Upper Township, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The station was built in 1894 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1984. The Ca ...
New York
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Tuckahoe (village), New York
Tuckahoe is a administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in Westchester County, New York, Westchester County, New York (state), New York, United States. One-and-a-half miles long and three-fourths of a mile wide, with the Bronx River ...
, a village in Eastchester, Westchester County
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Tuckahoe (Metro-North station)
Tuckahoe station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in the village of Tuckahoe, New York. It is 16 miles (25.7 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time there is approximately 39 minutes. As o ...
, a railroad station in the village
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Tuckahoe Union Free School District, a public school district that serves the village
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Tuckahoe High School, a school in the village
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Tuckahoe, Suffolk County, New York, a hamlet in Suffolk County
Pennsylvania
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Camp Tuckahoe, a Boy Scouts of America camp in York County
Virginia
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Tuckahoe, Virginia
Tuckahoe is a census-designated place (CDP) in Henrico County, Virginia, United States. It is a western suburb of Richmond. The population of Tuckahoe was 44,990 at the 2010 census. It is named after the area's history as the site of Thomas Rand ...
, a census-designated place in Henrico County
*Tuckahoe Recreation Center, a private aquatic complex in McLean, Virginia
West Virginia
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Tuckahoe, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
See also
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Tuckahoe culture Tuckahoe culture was created when Algonquin-speaking Native Americans, English, other Europeans, and West Africans in the Colony of Virginia brought customs and traditions from each of their home countries and the "loosely-knit customs began to crys ...
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Tuckahoe and Cohee Cohee and Tuckahoe were terms applied to people of Colonial Virginia to differentiate original English settlers in eastern Virginia (Tuckahoes) from German, Irish, and Scotch-Irish in the Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley () is a geo ...
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