Pocahontas State Park

This park of 7604 acres was originally known as the Swift Creek Recreational Area. Its purchase in 1934 and subsequent development by the federal government were with the understanding that eventually the State would accept and maintain the property, incorporating ...

Pocahontas

Matoaka, nicknamed Pocahontas ("playful one"), the daughter of Powhatan, was born about 1595. At age eleven, she befriended Captain John Smith and later visited the English colonists. In 1613 Samuel Argall kidnapped Pocahontas to use her as a negotiating pawn. ...

Fort Pocahontas

South of here, on a bluff overlooking the James River, stands the half-mile-long Fort Pocahontas, built in the spring of 1869 by Union soldiers during the Civil War. The fort protected Union vessels on the river and guarded the landing ...

Pocahontas

The Revolutionary War

Positions in the Battle of Petersburg

On 25 April 1781, this part of the community of Pocahontas served as the rear guard staging area for American Major General Frederick von Steuben’s Virginia militia in their defense of Petersburg against ...

Pocahontas

Powhatan --- 1595 to 1617

Noted as the Angel of Mercy who saved

the starving colonists of Jamestown, Virginia

Sculptor: Kenneth F. Campbell

Donor: National Society of the Colonial Dames XVII Century

Marker is on Highway 62.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Indian Princess Pocahontas

1595 - 1616

of

Weromocomoco

Wicomico

Gloucester County

Virginia

Sculpture by Adolf Sehring

A.D.1994

Marker is at the intersection of Business US 17 and Belroi Road, in the median on Business US 17.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Pocahontas

Matoaka, nicknamed Pocahontas (“mischievous one”), the daughter of Powhatan, was born about 1597. She served as an emissary for her father and came to Jamestown often in 1608. In 1613, Samuel Argall kidnapped Pocahontas while she visited the Patawomecks on ...

Kidnapping of Pocahontas

Near here, Pocahontas visited friends among the Patawomecks on the Potomac River in April 1613. Capt. Samuel Argall saw an opportunity to capture Pocahontas and exchange her for English prisoners held by her father Chief Powhatan. Argall sought out Iopassus, ...

Pocahontas

Erected in 1922, this statue by William Ordway Partridge, honors Pocahontas, the favorite daughter of Paramount Chief Wahunsenacawh (better known as Powhatan), ruler of the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom.

Pocahontas was born around 1595, probably at Werowocomoco, 15 miles from Jamestown. In ...