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Shrine to the annual Thanksgiving mandated by the London Company charter establishing the Berkeley Hundred in Charles City County, Virginia, 1619. During the Indian massacre of 1622, nine of the settlers at Berkeley Hundred were killed, as well as about a third of the entire population of the Virginia Colony. The Berkeley Hundred site and other ...
It was established 50 miles (80 km) from the first settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, [4] and across the river from Henricus, established by Thomas Dale in 1611. [5] Varina Farm, as it is now called, was still a working, privately owned farm in 1977. [ 3 ]
Berkeley Hundred was a Virginia Colony, founded in 1619, which comprised about eight thousand acres (32 km 2) on the north bank of the James River. It was near Herring Creek in an area which is now known as Charles City County, Virginia. It was the site of an early documented Thanksgiving when the settlers landed in what later was the United ...
Curles Neck Plantation (also known as Curles Neck Farm) is located between State Route 5 and the north bank of the James River in the Varina district of Henrico County, Virginia. One of the great James River Plantations , Curles Neck has remained in active use for almost 400 years and remains a privately owned working farm which is not ...
Colonial National Historical Park is a large national historical park located in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia operated by the National Park Service.It protects and interprets several sites relating to the Colony of Virginia and the history of the United States more broadly.
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.
This is a list of lakes in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Virginia has two natural lakes, and several man-made lakes and reservoirs. [ 1 ] Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
The second successful English colonial settlement in the New World, Henricus was opposite to the Native American village of Arrohateck. At the time, the First Anglo-Powhatan War was raging, and the Indian tribes of Virginia offered continuous resistance to colonial settlement, largely orchestrated by native leader Nemattanew — or as the colonists knew him, "Jack-of-the-Feather".