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  2. Powhatan - Wikipedia

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    The Powhatan people (/ ˌ p aʊ h ə ˈ t æ n, ˈ h æ t ən / [1]) are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah. They are Algonquian peoples whose historic territories were in eastern Virginia. [2]

  3. Powhatan Historic State Park - Wikipedia

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    Powhatan Historic State Park (formerly Powhatan Courthouse State Park) is a 9.1-acre (3.7 ha) Arkansas state park in Lawrence County, Arkansas in the United States.The park contains the 1888 Powhatan courthouse which served as the home of county government from 1869 to 1968. [1]

  4. Powhatan (Native American leader) - Wikipedia

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    Powhatan (c. 1547 – c. 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh (alternately spelled Wahunsenacah, Wahunsunacock, or Wahunsonacock), was the leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time when English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607.

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Powhatan ...

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    Location of Powhatan County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Powhatan County, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Powhatan County, Virginia, United States.

  6. Werowocomoco - Wikipedia

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    Werowocomoco first became known to the early English settlers of Virginia as the residence of Wahunsenacawh or Wahunsonacock, the paramount weroance of the area. He and his people were known to them as Powhatan, a name derived from his native village, the small settlement of Powhatan, meaning the falls of the river, at the fall line of the James River (the present-day Powhatan Hill ...

  7. Powhatan Courthouse Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Powhatan Courthouse Historic District is a county courthouse complex and national historic district located at Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. The district includes four contributing buildings. The district includes four contributing buildings.

  8. Belmead (Powhatan, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    Belmead (also known as Belmead Plantation, or Belmead-on-the-James) is a historic plantation located near Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia, designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis for Philip St. George Cocke — and constructed about 1845.

  9. Fighting Creek Plantation - Wikipedia

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    The Fighting Creek Plantation is a historic plantation house at 1811 Mill Quarter Road in Powhatan, Virginia. It is one of a few surviving mid-19th century plantation houses in the state. The two story stucco manor house was built c. 1841, supposedly to a design by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It was built for John Brockenbrough ...

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