Werowocomoco was a village that served as the headquarters of Chief Powhatan, a Virginia Algonquian political and spiritual leader when the English founded...

colonists. As a result, Wahunsenacawh moved his primary residence from Werowocomoco, off the York River, to Orapax (or Orapakes), located in a swamp at the...

Opchanacanough, the younger brother of Powhatan. Smith was taken to Werowocomoco, Powhatan's capital along the York River. Smith recounted in 1624 that...

County is about 60 miles (97 km) east of Virginia's capital, Richmond. Werowocomoco, capital of the large and powerful Powhatan Confederacy (a union of 30...

thousands of years. In 2003 evidence was found of the likely site of Werowocomoco, one of two capitals used by the paramount chief Powhatan before 1609...

exploring on the Chickahominy River and brought him to Powhatan's capital at Werowocomoco. In his 1608 account, Smith describes a great feast followed by a long...

he ruled primarily from Werowocomoco, which was located on the northern shore of the York River. This site of Werowocomoco was rediscovered in the early...

site of Werowocomoco, a capital village of Chief Powhatan in what is now Virginia. According to English colonist Captain John Smith, Werowocomoco was located...

Powhatan at Werowocomoco, one of the Powhatans' two capital villages. Located along the northern shore of the present-day York River, Werowocomoco is thought...

took him to meet Chief Powhatan (Opechancanough's older brother) at Werowocomoco, the main village of the Powhatan Confederacy. The village was on the...

Chief Powhatan later established a second capital village, known as Werowocomoco, in a centrally located position in Tenakomakah. Rediscovered in the...

Chief Powhatan, at the Powhatan Confederacy's seat of government at Werowocomoco on the York River. However, 17 years later, in 1624, Smith first related...

"Injuns" and potentially settling in the new land. In the Powhatan tribe in Werowocomoco, Tsenacommacah, Virginia, Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan...

100–800 AD Nazca Various Tribal chiefdoms 100 BC–800 AD Tsenacommacah Werowocomoco Tribal Confederacy 16th century–1677 AD Pueblo Various Tribal chiefdoms...

one that was proposed in the 19th and 20th centuries as the site of Werowocomoco. The area also includes remains of 17th-century English settlements....

(servant) named Namontack (or "Namotacke"). Thomas Savage resided in Werowocomoco, while Namontack served as emissary abroad in England with Captain Newport...

prisoner by Opchancanough and, on January 5, is delivered to Powhatan at Werowocomoco for execution. After an intervention by Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas...

Station Yorktown in York County. The settlement was 11 miles (18 km) from Werowocomoco, capital of the Powhatan Confederacy. In the mid-16th and early 17th...

called a ceasefire. John Smith saw the weroansqua of Appomattoc again at Werowocomoco (the main residence of Chief Powhatan) during his capture in December...

the paramount Chief Powhatan (Wahunsunacawh, who actually resided at Werowocomoco). Gabriel Archer, who wrote the fullest account of the visit to Parahunt's...

prisoner by Opchancanough and, on January 5, is delivered to Powhatan at Werowocomoco for execution. After an intervention by Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas...

up residence at Capahosic, a satellite village near his own capital Werowocomoco, where he would provide them food and security in exchange for metal...

Country to betray them, which they refused to do, but that the Indians of Werowocomoco had undertaken it. Captain Spilman went there, but the Indians after...

Werowocomoco Archeological Site...

Rassawek, similar to how, in 1977, the site of the Powhatan capital of Werowocomoco was discovered in Gloucester County. Speaking of the Rassawek site, Jeffrey...

meter mural of the Life of Pocahontas outside the home of Pocahontas, Werowocomoco, in Gloucester, Virginia for the 400 Anniversary Celebration. Kirby has...

death December 1607 (1607-12): John Smith is taken by Opechancanough to Werowocomoco, either to be inducted as a ceremonial tribe member or to be executed...

stands. Not far from Richmond, the Powhatan tribe built their capital, Werowocomoco, on an island in this river and chose it in part because of its considerable...

Virginia. This was called Tenakomakah. A capital of this confederacy, Werowocomoco, was located near the north bank of the York River in present-day Gloucester...