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According to the FY 2014 Institute of Museum and Library Services Data Catalog, the Library System has a service area population of 145,664 with 0 central library and 10 branch libraries. [2] The service area is approximately 1,349 square miles (3,490 km 2 ), approximately 68,000 are registered patrons of the Library.
The local library has recently been renovated, and has nearly doubled in size, thanks to area resident J. Harwood Cochrane, retired founder of Overnight Transportation. The library has changed its name in his honor from the Rockville Library to the Cochrane Rockville Library. The library is in the Pamunkey Library System. [1]
The Pamunkey Indian Museum has a variety of vessels, as well as videos and exhibits, that explain the differences in construction methods, types of temper, and decorating techniques. [8] The Pamunkey ensured their Pamunkey Indian Tribe Museum, built in 1979, resembled the traditional yehakin. Located on the reservation, the museum provides ...
This effort to remove the Mattaponi and Pamunkey from their lands was also defeated. At about the same time, the historian Henry Howe reported two Indian groups living in King William County, the Pamunkey and the Mattaponi. In 1865, the Pamunkey Baptist Church was formed, which many Mattaponi attended over the years.
The tribe resettled on reservation land set aside by the treaty in the Pamunkey Neck area, alongside another Virginia Algonquian tribe, the Pamunkey, between the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Rivers. [ 2 ] They stayed there until 1661, when they moved again to the headwaters of the Mattaponi, but their reserved holdings continued to be encroached upon ...
The museum focuses on the Pamunkey Indian Tribe’s history and way of life from 12,000 years ago through to the present. Construction on the museum began in 1979, with primary contributions made by Warren Cook (Pamunkey) and Errett Callahan (an experimental archeologist). The museum celebrated its grand opening on October 11, 1980. [citation ...
Mechanicsville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hanover County, Virginia, United States. The population was 39,482 during the 2020 census , [ 2 ] up from 36,348 in the 2010 census .
Caroline Bradby Cook was born around 1839 and lived on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in King William County. [2] She was married to Major Cook, and in 1861, she had her only child, George Major Cook. [3] Her husband died in the same year. Her son, George Major Cook, became the chief of the Pamunkey in 1902 and served until he died in 1930. [4]