Uncovering Powhatan's Empire

Humanities | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

Beneath a farm on the York River lie clues to life before Jamestown.

ALTHOUGH THE JAMESTOWN SETTLEMENT may have seemed like the edge of the world to its English colonists, it was, in fact, in the middle of a thriving empire, ruled by the Algonquin Indian leader Wahunsunacock, better known as Powhatan. In December 1607, Jamestown's John Smith was first brought to meet the Indian chief at Werowocomoco, Powhatan's seat of power in the Tidewater area of Virginia.

"Werowocomoco was designed and constructed over several centuries to convey a central place in Tidewater political and religious life, ...

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