Bermuda Hundred
“Bermuda Hundred
Historical Significance:
In the vicinity of Bermuda Hundred, Smith and his fellow Englishmen found an Appamattuck Indian town on their initial exploration of the James upriver of Jamestown. Future governor George Percy recalled “The eighth day of May we discovered [explored] up the River. We landed in the Countrey of Apamatica, at our landing, there came many stout and able Savages to resist us with their Bowes and Arrowes, in a most warlike manner … Amongst the rest one of the chiefest standing before them crosselegged, with his Arrow readie in his Bow in one hand, and taking a Pipe of Tobacco in the other … Wee made signes of peace, which they perceived in the end, and let us land in quietnesse.” Smith would return in 1608 to trade with the Appamattuck for corn to sustain the near-starving colonists.
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Visit: Bermuda Hundred
Address:
Allied Rd & Bermuda Hundred Rd
Chester, VA 23836
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Locality: Chesterfield County
Bermuda Hundred was started in 1613, after the English settlers made peace with the Virginia natives. It was named after the traumatic shipwreck of the "Third Supply" bringing reinforcements to Virginia in 1609. The leaders of that expedition were shipwrecked in Bermuda and had to take their wrecked ship apart and build two smaller ships to finally get to Virginia. Bermuda Hundred was initially intended to include several "hundreds" upstream and downstream of the Appomattox River.The Bermuda settlements were attacked severely in 1622, when the natives abandoned their efforts at peaceful coexistence. Bermuda Hundred never gained prominence again until 1864 when a Union Army occupied it. The Federal troops came very close to capturing Petersburg and ending the Civil War, before being bottled up on the peninsula.
Telephone:
Phone: (804) 748-1000
Website:
www.co.chesterfield.va.us/tourism/located.asp
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The cited information was sourced from Website / URL published in http://www.virginia.org/johnsmithtrail/jstsites.asp?loop=oxbow&siteNum=12&attrID=36941&noFlash=1Historical Significance:
In the vicinity of Bermuda Hundred, Smith and his fellow Englishmen found an Appamattuck Indian town on their initial exploration of the James upriver of Jamestown. Future governor George Percy recalled “The eighth day of May we discovered [explored] up the River. We landed in the Countrey of Apamatica, at our landing, there came many stout and able Savages to resist us with their Bowes and Arrowes, in a most warlike manner … Amongst the rest one of the chiefest standing before them crosselegged, with his Arrow readie in his Bow in one hand, and taking a Pipe of Tobacco in the other … Wee made signes of peace, which they perceived in the end, and let us land in quietnesse.” Smith would return in 1608 to trade with the Appamattuck for corn to sustain the near-starving colonists.
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Visit: Bermuda Hundred
Address:
Allied Rd & Bermuda Hundred Rd
Chester, VA 23836
view map
Locality: Chesterfield County
Bermuda Hundred was started in 1613, after the English settlers made peace with the Virginia natives. It was named after the traumatic shipwreck of the "Third Supply" bringing reinforcements to Virginia in 1609. The leaders of that expedition were shipwrecked in Bermuda and had to take their wrecked ship apart and build two smaller ships to finally get to Virginia. Bermuda Hundred was initially intended to include several "hundreds" upstream and downstream of the Appomattox River.The Bermuda settlements were attacked severely in 1622, when the natives abandoned their efforts at peaceful coexistence. Bermuda Hundred never gained prominence again until 1864 when a Union Army occupied it. The Federal troops came very close to capturing Petersburg and ending the Civil War, before being bottled up on the peninsula.
Telephone:
Phone: (804) 748-1000
Website:
www.co.chesterfield.va.us/tourism/located.asp
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