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The main Warraskoyak village was located where present-day Smithfield, Virginia developed. A satellite village called Mokete was at Pagan Point, and another called Mathomank was on Burwell's Bay, led by a sub-weroance named Sasenticum. The first English plantation in the region, dating to 1618, was that of Puritan merchant Christopher Lawne ...
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 ...
Virginia counties and independent cities map.gif licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated-with-disclaimers, GFDL-en 2006-10-16T20:34:33Z JosN 1009x491 (71702 Bytes) Map of Virginia counties and independant cities. Map of Virginia highlighting Floyd County.svg licensed with PD-self
The county was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1648 during a period of rapid population growth and geographic expansion. Settlement began in this area of the Northern Neck around 1635. Originally, known as the Indian district Chickacoan , the area was first referred to as Northumberland (a namesake of Northumberland County, England ...
Manakin Sabot, consisting of the villages of Manakin and Sabot, is an affluent unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is located northwest of Richmond in the Piedmont and is part of the Greater Richmond region .
Thomas Fuller (1710 – December 1790), also known as "Negro Demus" and the "Virginia Calculator", was an enslaved African renowned for his mathematical abilities. [1]
Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 83,757. [1] Its county seat is the independent city of Harrisonburg.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in James City County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]