Werowocomoco
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werowocomoco-166-8697032
title:
Werowocomoco
text:
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), "settlement". The town was documented by English settlers in 1608 as located near the north bank of the York River in what is now Gloucester County. It was separated by that river and the narrow Virginia Pe
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Archaeological site in Virginia, United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werowocomoco
date created:
2006-03-28T16:45:55Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:38:53Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Powhatan_john_smith_map.jpg","width":761,"height":1094}
fields total:
13
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16