County of Charles City: Three Cultures



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Charles City History:

1870 Census

Chickahominy Tribe

Civil War Trails Trails

County Historical Markers

Free Negro & Mullato Registrations

Natives in the Landscape

Revolutionary War Roster

Slave Ancestor File

State Historical Markers

Did You Know?
In 1790 when the first federal census was taken, Charles City’s population numbered 5,588. Today the population is 6,926, a population increase of only 1,338 over the course of 210 years.

Did You Know?
Charles City is the birthplace of Lott Cary, the first American missionary to Africa and a founding father of Liberia?

Her people are a braid, woven of strands whose roots run back to the nape of America. Charles City was home to the Chickahominy, Paspahegh and Weyanock Native Americans when the Susan Constant, the Godspeed and the Discovery entered the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in 1607 and sailed up the James River. Those English settlers planted a new settlement at West and Shirley Hundred in 1613. Governor Yeardley traded with a Dutch vessel for her cargo of “20 and odd” Captive Africans in 1618 and almost half of them were brought to the Borough of Charles City and settled across the James River at Flowerdew Hundred, a European settlement on Weyanock lands. Thus, Charles City became one of the first meeting grounds of three cultures – three cultures that have moved over the course of four centuries from confrontation to community.

When we extend the invitation to “come home to Charles City County” we extend the invitation to millions of Americans whose blood lines run back to this land where three cultures formed a union.

Charles City Roots Run Deep

Click here to explore the roots of 10 young people who reside in the county today.

Native American Resources:

Chickahominy Tribe
Find out more about the Chickahominy Tribe here at charlescity.org

Chickahominy Tribe Eastern Division

Mattaponi Indian Reservation

Monacan Indian Nation

Nansemond Indian Tribal Association

Natives in the Landscape: Chickahominy, Paspahegh and Weyanock

Pamunkey Indian Tribe

Rappahannock Indian Tribe

Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe