Before Norfolk9500 B.C. -- Earliest evidence
of native people in Virginia.
The Chesipean Indians ruled the area.
Their town was called SKICOAK, the site of which is now Norfolk.
The Scicoaks were gone by the time the English colonists reached
the site of Norfolk, having been wiped out by Chief Powhatan. One
of Powhatan’s advisors went to the Chief, telling him of a
dream about the Powhatan Confederacy being destroyed by strangers
from the east. Powhatan misunderstood this to mean the Scicoaks
and so he eliminated this peaceful people before they could turn
against him. Later, of course, strangers from the east, across the
Atlantic, DID come, and so the soothsayer’s dream was fulfilled.
1560s - Spanish arrive and settle
briefly along the York River
1585 -- English settlers reach
Roanoke Island.
1591 -- Roanoke Colony found
with no survivors.
> 17th Century
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