Pocahontas’s birthplace has been discovered. Pocahontas was born about 1596 in the Mattaponi village of Werowocomoco—Chief’s Town. Her father was Wahunsenaca, Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy. It was abandoned in 1609 because it was too close to the English. Its location has been discovered, and the owners were nice enough to allow archaeologists to examine it. [the village is small, but European diseases had killed most of the population]
C. T. Suddeth 
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