York River (Virginia)
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The York River is a navigable estuary, approximately 34 miles (55 km) long, in eastern Virginia in the United States. It ranges in width from 1 mile (1.6 km) at its head to 2.5 miles (4.0 km) near its mouth on the west side of Chesapeake Bay. Its watershed drains an area of the coastal plain of Virginia north and east of Richmond.
York River at Yorktown, ca. 1903
The confluence of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Rivers in West Point, the site which marks the beginning of the York River
The banks of the York near Yorktown
The George P. Coleman Bridge
Powhatan
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The Powhatan people (;) are Native Americans who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah. They are Algonquian peoples whose historic territories were in eastern Virginia.
'John Smith taking the King of Pamunkey prisoner', a fanciful image of Opechancanough from Smith's General History of Virginia (1624). The image of Opechancanough is based on a 1585 painting of another Native warrior by John White[1]
The Coronation of Powhatan, oil on canvas, John Gadsby Chapman, 1835
Reconstructed Powhatan village at the Jamestown Settlement living-history museum.