Flowerdew Hundred

K-214

Four miles north of here, Governor Sir George Yeardley established Flowerdew Hundred settlement by 1619. In 1621 a windmill was built there, the first one recorded in English North America. In response to English expansion into Powhatan lands, such as occurred at Flowerdew and elsewhere, paramount chief Opechancanough planned a coordinated assault on English settlements. The settlement survived the attack on 22 Mar. 1622 and was inhabited through the 18th century. On 14-16 June 1864, U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac landed there and marched toward Petersburg to attack it.

Department of Historic Resources, 2005

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

James Deetz, Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993); Calder Loth, ed., The Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th. ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 399; Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, National Register of Historic Places Archives File (74-06); Frederick W. Gleach, Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: Conflict in Cultures (Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1997), 148-158; Susan Myra Kingsbury, The Records of the Virginia Company of London (4 vols.; Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1906-1935), 3:154, 3:568, 3:612; Martha W. McCartney, “An Early Virginia Census Reprised,” Quarterly Bulletin of the Archaeology Society of Virginia 54, no. 4 (December 1999): 186; E. Randolph Turner, III and Antony F. Opperman, Searching for Virginia Company Period Sites: An Assessment of Surviving Archaeological Manifestations of Powhatan-English Interactions, A.D. 1607-1624 (Forthcoming), 4-10-4-12.