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Martha StegerSpecial Correspondent

Nothing about Virginia history is ever simple. Anyone who has ridden through any part of Henrico County recently has undoubtedly seen signs with the large “400” on them. Lesser-known is that Henrico County’s claim to its 1611 beginnings lies squarely in the Henricus settlement that’s now in Chesterfield County.

For many years in the 20th century, Hen-ricus was completely neglected. Midlothian author and very special teacher for whom Bettie W. Weaver Elementary School is named, Bettie Weaver remembers visiting Henricus in the late 1940s with Rosalie (Mrs. John Morgan) Applegate when “we had to beat our way uphill to that large cross at the top after getting permission in

advance from VEPCO (Virginia Electric & Power Company, now Dominion). We were appalled at the abandonment of the place.”

Gaining attention and support for Henri-cus over the intervening 60 years has taken far longer than the period from 1611— when Sir Thomas Dale moved up the James River, on behalf of the London Company, to establish the settlement — to the 1622 Indian attack that wiped out the settlement.

Just as present arguments exist by experts about whether to put more or less money into stimulating the economy, so some mem-bers of Great Britain’s early 17th-century Parliament felt the Crown was throwing good money after bad by establishing Henricus in 1611. After all, Jamestown had only been rescued by an act of chance when Sir Thomas Dale arrived after “the starving time” of 1609-10, persuading settlers to stay

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on rather than throwing in the towel and returning to England.

Despite the fact that the Henricus colonists who survived the 1622 massacre virtually abandoned their citie, consolidat-ing with survivors at Jamestown, they had lasted long enough for the Plymouth Colony to gain a strong foothold in Massachusetts, thus proving North America was a viable area for settlement – and investment.

A personal visit to the site reveals the neck of very high land that made it so ap-pealing to Sir Thomas Dale for settlement in 1611. Dale even expected the location to replace Jamestown as the principal site of the Virginia colony. With this in mind, he instituted private land ownership, which drastically altered the development of Henricus.

Pocahontas also played a role at this second successful English settlement in the Americas. Captured by Captain Samual Argall in 1613, she was initially taken to Jamestown; but the governor of James-town, Sir Thomas Gates, was fearful of reprisal from Powhatan and turned her over to Sir Thomas Dale at Henricus. Dale instructed the Reverend Alexander Whita-ker to care for Pocahontas and instruct her in the ways of Christianity. While living at Henricus, she converted to Christianity, was baptized and took the Christian name, Rebecca.

By 1616, with all of the settlement’s prosperity, historians now believe that only about 50 persons remained within the city

walls. Many settlers had moved their dwell-ing places beyond the walls, and some had established their private farms farther away along the James River. As the colonists prospered, their increased numbers and aggressive expansion further strained the relationship between the English and the Virginia Indians. On March 22, 1622, Ope-chancanough, Powhatan’s younger brother and successor, led a raid against English settlements up and down the James River. During this uprising, The Citie of Henricus was destroyed.

Subsequent efforts to reestablish the town of Henricus failed. In May 1625, only 22 inhabitants resided in 10 dwellings at Henricus. In 1637, 15 years after the uprising, William Farrar patented a 2,000-

acre tract that included Henricus. The new name for the little peninsula that had been Henricus was Farrar’s Island – but Henricus had served the vital purpose of proving that North America was worthy of British resources.

For more information on the history of Henricus and its 400th anniversary, go to www.henricus.org.

Martha Steger, a Midlothian-based freelance writer, served as interpreter for Colonial Williamsburg during three of her four years at The College of William and Mary and, for 25-plus years, as the Virginia Tourism Corporation’s director of public relations. The original article first appeared in Midlothian Exchange in September 2010.


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