Rosewell and Werowocomoco
Several miles west is Rosewell, built about 1750, home of the Page family, and the largest of colonial Virginia houses. On York River, probably at Purtan Bay some miles west of Rosewell, was Werowocomoco, chief town of the Indian ruler Powhatan in 1607.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
Many of these markers have since been replaced or their texts revised. The marker program and its current texts are maintained by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Virginia Department of Historic Resources ↗
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Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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