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Thomas Dale - Established Henrico Towne as secon oldest English settlement
- Powhatan - Native American leader whose chiefdom settled on the James River.
- Pocahontas - Daughter of Powhatan, wife of John Rolfe, peacemaker and legendary figure.
- Nathaniel Bacon - Colonial rebel to the English Governor in Williamsburg.
- In 1611, four years after Newport's early explorations, Sir Thomas Dale left Jamestown to establish a settlement upriver. Relations with the Indians had steadily deteriorated since 1607, and Dale's company suffered constant attacks. The party finally came to a peninsula on the north side of the river, now Farrar's Island, where Dale established the colony's second settlement, "Henricus," known also as the "city" or "town" of "Henrico." In just four months the town grew to a fortified settlement. Frame houses lined three streets, and the men had built a wooden church, a brick foundation for a permanent church, storehouses, watchtowers, and huts
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