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In later years, local people thought that Werowocomoco was located near Powhatan's Chimney, about 25 miles (40 km) east of present-day West Point, Virginia in the area of Timberneck Bay, slightly upstream on the York River from Gloucester Point.
Werowocomoco had been an important Powhatan Indian town for hundreds of years before English settlers established Jamestown. The site is located along the York River’s Purtan Bay, in Gloucester County, Virginia.
11 de dic. de 2023 · 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.
29 de jun. de 2016 · Werowocomoco was the most significant city in the region at the time of the landing of the Jamestown colonists, and had probably been “a place of power” for centuries before 1607, says Martin Gallivan, professor of anthropology at William & Mary.
According to local tradition in Gloucester County, Werowocomoco was located at modern-day Wicomico on Timberneck Creek, where an old chimney supposedly marked the remains of a house built for Powhatan by the English.
Werowocomoco sits on a high bluff on the north side of the York River. From the bluff, it was easy to see who was traveling on the river and detect anyone approaching Werowocomoco by water.
On today’s maps, Werowocomoco can be found in Gloucester County, Virginia, on the north side of the York River. Nothing above ground remains of the Indian community that lived here. The rural landscape is largely intact, however, and clues to the past still lie in the earth.
