Tuckahoe
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Tuckahoe is the name of several edible plants and fungi:
- Peltandra virginica
- Poria cocos
Tuckahoe is the name of a Colonial and early U.S. cultural sub-group in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Kentucky in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Tuckahoe was a term of disparagement, and later a term of ethnic identification, used in the late 18th Century and early 19th Century.
Tuckahoe is also the name of some places in the United States:
- Florida
- Maryland
- Tuckahoe River (Maryland)
- Tuckahoe State Park in Queen Anne's County
- New Jersey
- Tuckahoe, New Jersey
- Tuckahoe River (New Jersey), a river in southern New Jersey
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Camp Tuckahoe, a Boy Scouts of America local council camp
- South Carolina
- Virginia
- Tuckahoe, Virginia
- Tuckahoe (estate), owned by the Randolph family, was the home of president Thomas Jefferson for seven years during his boyhood [1]