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Werowocomoco. / 37.412; -76.649. Werowocomoco was a village that served as the headquarters of Chief Powhatan, a Virginia Algonquian political and spiritual leader when the English founded Jamestown in 1607. The name Werowocomoco comes from the Powhatan werowans ( weroance ), meaning "leader" in English; and komakah (-comoco ...
Werowocomoco was abandoned, and the location of the dramatic confrontations between Smith and Powhatan that ensured the English foothold in North America was lost to history. Until Lynn Ripley...
9 de abr. de 2017 · Pocahontas nació en Virginia bajo el nombre de Werowocomoco en 1595, murió el 21 de marzo de 1617 en Gravesend, ribera sur del Támesis, Inglaterra, hace casi exactos 400 años. Sus huesos yacen ...
11 de dic. de 2023 · Werowocomoco: A Powhatan Place of Power [WAYR-uh-wah-KOH-muh-koh] What is Werowocomoco? Werowocomoco is an archeological site, the location of an important Indigenous town on the shores of what is now known as the York River. Evidence of human use of the area dates back some 6,000 to 8,000 years.
Werowocomoco, translated from the Virginia Algonquian language, means “place of leadership”. As an archaeological site, Werowocomoco was confirmed in 2002, nearly 400 years after the Indian leader paramount chief Powhatan and his people interacted with Jamestown settlers here and at Jamestown.
29 de jun. de 2016 · by Joseph McClain | June 29, 2016. 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 National Park Service.
The official website of the Werowocomoco Research Group and Archaeology Project. The village of Werowocomoco was the residence of the Virginia Algonquin chief Powhatan and the political center of the Powhatan chiefdom during the early 1600s.
