GLOUCESTER, Va. – Archaeologists digging on a farm above the York River believe they have found Werowocomoco, principal village of the Indian chieftain Powhatan, who controlled the Virginia Tidewater ...

In American folk history, the Indian princess Pocahontas befriended English settlers and saved Capt. John Smith from certain death at the hands of his Algonquin captors. It happened near the Jamestown ...

When Lynn Ripley walks around her farm overlooking the York River, she ignores the lush scenery and keeps her eyes to the ground. Her passion for spotting and collecting pottery shards, arrowheads and ...

The legend of Pocahontas is a staple of childhood literature -- the brave Indian maiden who saves the life of Capt. John Smith against the will of her powerful and vindictive father, Powhatan, and ...

When most people would look at the on the old DeLaurenti buildings on the village square in Pocahontas, they could only see what was — dilapidated structures that had not seen commerce in half a ...

Tammy Woodell sent a picture of a great crested flycatcher picking berries from a neighbor’s bush in Pocahontas Village. Flycatchers have a slight crest on their head that they raise when alarmed, and ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Three adults are now displaced after a house fire in the Pocahontas Village section of the city. On Friday around 2:54 a.m., the Virginia Beach Fire Department responded to a ...

John Smith claimed Pocahontas saved him from execution when she was just 11 or 12 years old. Whether the story happened the way Smith tells it—or even at all—is up for debate, a 2017 Smithsonian ...

A woman's habit of finding pottery shards and arrowheads on her farm has led to the discovery of what archaeologists believe was the village of the powerful Indian chief Powhatan, the father of ...