Virginia To Protect Site Of Pocahontas Story's Origin

Early Virginia, before the Europeans moved in and changed things, was ruled from a low bluff in Gloucester County, above a shallow bay framed by three creeks.

It was there that Chief Powhatan received John Smith in 1607, there that the Pocahontas legend began and there that modern-day landowner Lynn Ripley started picking up pieces of broken American Indian pottery so they wouldn't cut her dog's paws.

And it is there that representatives of Virginia's Indian tribes met with the governor Friday to formalize an easement to forever protect the site believed to be Powhatan's seat of power, called Werowocomoco.

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