This unknown man on a black horse is pictured by the grist mill at L. D. Sharp’s farm on U.S. Rt. 219 in Slaty Fork, West ...

But the scant historical record and ... After nearly four centuries of mythmaking, could Pocahontas's true appearance be resurrected? Virginia portrait artist Mary Ellen Howe hoped that it ...

On this site from the Virginia Historical Society, view a gallery of early images of Virginia Indians and read a companion article on interpreting them as historical documents. The Society for ...

Historians believe that the figure now more commonly called Pocahontas was born somewhere around 1596 in the part of America now known as Virginia. Her dad was a renowned Native American leader ...

When you think of Virginia and ... with the English settlers. Historic Jamestown inspired many "characters" we know today, most famously from Disney's 1995 film "Pocahontas": Captain John Smith ...