Powhatan's Village

Across the York River is the site of Werowocomco, an Indian village, that was Powhatan’s “chiefest habitation” in the early period of the Jamestown settlement. Captain John Smith was a prisoner there in 1607.

Powhatan House

Early Galveston hotel; built 1847 by John Seabrook Sydnor, Galveston mayor 1846-1847.

Greek revival architecture; Doric columns from Maine.

Has served as orphanage, military academy, residence, and set for a motion picture. Now Galveston Garden Center.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark-1967

Powhatan Courthouse

The first courthouse was built here about 1783 and around it grew the village of Scottville. Named for Revolutionary War Gen. Charles Scott, who was born in the area, the town eventually became known as Powhatan Court House. The present ...

Powhatan Court House

April 4, 1865

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After Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant broke through Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s lines at Petersburg on April 2, 1865, Lee ordered the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond. The Army of Northern Virginia retreated west on several roads, ...

Rocketts Landing and Wharf / Confederate Navy Yard / Powhatan’s

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Rocketts Landing and Wharf

Rocketts is the river frontage and community named for Robert Rockett, who operated a ferry across the James River beginning in the 1730s. Over the years, tenant laborers and merchants filled the floodplain with clusters of ...

Powhatan’s Chimney

According to Gloucester legend this chimney is all that remains of the house built by Captain

John Smith for Indian Chief Powhatan in 1609

The collapse of this chimney in an 1888 storm gave impetus to the preservation movement in Virgina Concerned ...

Samuel Powhatan Carter

Aug 6, 1819 – May 26, 1891

Born in this house. After attending Washington College and Princeton, graduated from U.S. Naval Academy; serving in the Navy until May 1, 1862, he was appointed brigadier general, U.S. Volunteers. His most conspicuous service ...

Powhatan

In this vicinity is believed to be the birthplace of Wahunsunacock, better known as Powhatan. A village stood nearby that also bore the name Powhatan. By the time the English arrived in 1607, Powhatan was acknowledged as the paramount chief ...

Powhatan Stone

An old Indian stone removed from and now overlooking “Powhatan Seat” a royal residence of King Powhatan when Captain John Smith and his fellow “Adventurers” made the first permanent English settlement in this country at Jamestown, Virginia 1607.

“Powhatan Seat” was ...

Powhatan's Village

Across the York River is the site of Werowocomoco, an Indian Village that was Powhatan's "chiefest habitation" in the early period of the Jamestown settlement. Captain John Smith was a prisoner there late in 1607.

Marker can be reached from Colonial ...