Chickahominy River
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The Chickahominy is an 87-mile-long river in eastern Virginia. The river, which serves as the eastern border of Charles City County, rises about 15 miles northwest of Richmond and flows southeast and
Chickahominy near Mechanicsville, Virginia
The Chickahominy - Sumner's Upper Bridge: 1862 watercolour by William McIlvaine.
Cannons that were used at the Battle of Malvern Hill on the preserved battlefield there.
Military bridge across Chickahominy
Pocahontas
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Pocahontas was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the Mam
Chickahominy River
…captured by warriors of the Chickahominy tribe and taken to meet Chief Powhatan. According to legend, he was rescued by Powhatan's daughter, Matoaka (Pocahontas). In the 19th century, the Chickahominy River was bordered in many places by swampy forests, which during heavy rains and spring thaw were so covered…
Pocahontas saves the life of John Smith in this chromolithograph, credited to the New England Chromo. Lith. Company around 1870. The scene is idealized; there are no mountains in Tidewater, Virginia, for example, and the Powhatans lived in thatched houses rather than tipis.
The abduction of Pocahontas (1624) by Johann Theodor de Bry, depicting a full narrative. Starting in the lower left, Pocahontas (center) is deceived by weroance Iopassus, who holds a copper kettle as bait, and his wife, who pretends to cry. At center right, Pocahontas is put on the boat and feasted. In the background, the action moves from the Potomac to the York River, where negotiations fail to trade a hostage and the colonists attack and burn a Native village.
Statue of Pocahontas outside St George's Church, Gravesend, Kent, where she was buried in a grave now lost
Pocahontas commemorative postage stamp of 1907