The U.S. National Park Service has taken Werowocomoco under its umbrella. The site of Werowocomoco, Powhatan’s capital city during the early years of the Jamestown Colony, has been acquired by the ...

Incorporating Werowocomoco into the National Park System would be a double boon, benefiting both Virginia tourism as well as scholarship, according to Martin Gallivan, the William & Mary archaeologist ...

Governor McAuliffe celebrated the National Park Service’s acquisition of Werowocomoco, the former capital of the Powhatan Chiefdom and the presumed site of Captain John Smith’s first meeting with the ...

When Lynn Ripley walks around her farm overlooking the York River, she ignores the lush scenery and keeps her eyes to the ground. Her passion for spotting and collecting pottery shards, arrowheads and ...

An effort is under way to add to the national park system the place where Indian Chief Powhatan, daughter Pocahontas and English explorer John Smith came together. The site, called Werowocomoco, lies ...

Seem random? That’s because it basically is. It’s a very tenuous connection — the claimed link to the concept is that Virginia Dare Winery has been open since 1835, and its “mother vine” traces back ...

Wer-o-wo-co-mo-co. It’s a mouthful – and the most significant native archeological site in the Chesapeake Bay region. This is where Powhatan lived and met with John Smith and, where legend has it, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Werowocomoco, Va. – When archaeologists began digging in a cornfield one steamy summer day on the banks of the York River, they were pretty sure they would ...

— When one makes an assertion, the reason for it, if not apparent, is demanded ; therefore, when I announce that the ruin of a colossal stone chimney, built for the old Indian chief Powhatan, is ...

Captain Christopher Newport leads three ships carrying 105 male settlers across the Atlantic. In May, they establish Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Paspahegh ...