The recent project is notable for the researchers ' consultation and collaboration with members of the local Native American tribes, the Mattaponi and Pamunkey.

It is named after the Pamunkey princess Matoaka who was better known by her nickname " Pocahontas ".

The York River is formed at West Point by the confluence of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers ; from there, it separates the Virginia Peninsula and Middle Peninsula regions of eastern Virginia as it flows approximately 40 miles to the Chesapeake Bay.

The town is named for the Pamunkey chief's daughter Matoaka who was better known by her nickname " Pocahontas ".

General McClellan up to this time had received his provisions and supplies by the way of the York River, and his base ( that is, the place where his provisions were landed ) was at White House on the Pamunkey River.

The York River is formed at West Point, approximately east of Richmond, by the confluence of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers.

Pamunkey Indian Reservation is a Native American Reservation located in King William, Virginia, United States.

The Pamunkey Reservation contains approximately 1, 200 acres ( 4. 8 km² ) of land, 500 acres ( 2 km² ) of which is wetlands with numerous creeks.

The treaty of 1677 between the King of England, acting through the Governor of Virginia, and several Native American tribes including the Pamunkey is the most important existing document describing Virginia's relationship towards Indian land.

The transition is complete by the time the U. S. Highway crosses the Pamunkey River into King William County, where the highway's name changes to Richmond – Tappahannock Highway.

( One of the frontlets, presented to the queen of Pamunkey, is now held by the Virginia Historical Society ).

The library is in the Pamunkey Library System

* Queen Anne ( Pamunkey chief ) ( c. 1650 – c. 1725 ), Native American tribal leader in colonial Virginia

* The Pamunkey Project-Dr. Errett Callahan led a series of extended Late Woodland living experiences in Tidewater Virginia.

Two of these tribes, the Mattaponi and Pamunkey, still retain their reservations from the 17th century and are located in King William County, Virginia.

Pollard also wrote " The Pamunkey Indians of Virginia ," an anthropological survey that detailed the vanishing language and traditions of the early Virginia tribe.

The reservation lies along the Pamunkey River in King William County, Virginia on the Middle Peninsula.

The reservation was confirmed to the Pamunkey tribe as early as 1658 by the Governor, the Council, and the General Assembly of Virginia.

Also in 1862 the Richmond and York River Railroad, which operated from the Pamunkey River at West Point, Virginia to Richmond, Virginia, was a major focus of George McClellan's Peninsular Campaign, which culminated in the Seven Days Battles and devastated the tiny rail link.

In 1859, he resigned from the U. S. Army to operate his White House Plantation, on the south shore of the Pamunkey River, in New Kent County, Virginia.

* Cumberland was a colonial town on the south side of the Pamunkey River in New Kent County that came within three votes of replacing Williamsburg as the capitol of the Virginia Colony after the Williamsburg Capitol building was burned in 1748.

Another large group that built longhouses, among others, were the Lenni Lenape, living from the lower Hudson River, along the Delaware River and on both sides of the Delaware Bay, and the Pamunkey of the maybe-related Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia.

In 1968, Virginia Electric and Power Company ( now Dominion ) purchased 18, 000 acres ( 73 km² ) of farmlands in three counties along the North Anna and Pamunkey Rivers to provide clean, fresh water to cool the nuclear power generating plants at the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station adjacent to the lake.

* Pamunkey, Virginia

In 1862 during Union General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Olmsted headed the medical effort for the sick and wounded at White House in New Kent County, where there was a ship landing on the Pamunkey River.

The Chickahominy River borders the county to the south, the Pamunkey and York rivers border it to the north and east.

They lived at White House Plantation on the south shore of the Pamunkey River, a few miles upriver from Chestnut Grove.

The York River was formerly known as the Pamunkey River by the Native Americans.

He died around 1677 at his plantation, Romancoke, on Virginia's Pamunkey River.

Claiborne therefore retired from political affairs in 1660 and spent the remainder of his life managing his 5, 000 acre ( 2, 023 hectare ) estate, " Romancoke ", near West Point on the Pamunkey River, dying there in about 1677.

* Hauptman, Laurence M. “ River Pilots and Swamp Guerillas: Pamunkey and Lumbee Unionists ,” in Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War.

" for the securing and taking in a tract of land called the forest, bordering upon the cheife residence of ye Pamunkey King, the most dangerous head of ye Indyan enemy ," did " after much consultation thereof had, decree and sett down several proportions of land for such commanders, and fifty acres per poll for all other persons who ye first yeare and five and twenty acres who the second yeare, should adventure or be adventured to seate and inhabit on the southern side of Pamunkey River, now called York, and formerly known by the Indyan name of Chiskiack, as a reward and encouragement for this their undertaking.

First, the Pamunkey River, which ran roughly parallel to the Chickahominy, offered a line of communication that could enable McClellan to get around Johnston's left flank.

First, the Pamunkey River, which ran roughly parallel to the Chickahominy, offered a line of communication that could enable McClellan to get around Johnston's left flank.

He ordered Porter to begin a withdrawal and at the same time decided to change the army's base of supply from White House on the Pamunkey River to Harrison's Landing on the James River.

The following year, a combined force of English and Pamunkey drove the newcomers away.

( The Pamunkey called the river of their territory Pamunkey ; residents retained that for a portion upstream from West Point.

* 1616-1617 Pocahontas ( birth name: Matoaka ), Pamunkey princess, lived in Brentford.

By treaty, the colonial government established reservations for the Mattaponi and Pamunkey in this area.

More than 350 years later, Pamunkey and Mattaponi tribal members continue to occupy the reservations, located a few miles north of modern-day West Point.

Beginning to move against the Indians, Bacon and his men attacked the innocent ( and friendly ) Pamunkey.

There are two tiny land reservations, home to the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Indian tribes.