POCAHONTAS BASIN - Poplar Lawn Park (Petersburg, VA)

Oldest artifact in Petersburg Virginia. The Pocahontas bath sat on land the was gifted by Chief Powhatan to his daughter the Princess Pocahontas after her marriage to John Rolfe.
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[@sarahgoodyear378]

I grew you as a little kid though my adult hood .2 blocks from my grandparents house. Yes so much history and beautiful older houses,love it!Papa and I used to go through the park .great memories!

[@peggyscott66]

Its truly a legend. We learned about this basin in Elementary School in the 1960's Chesterfield county. Love this. My grandmothers family were in Petersburg before the Civil War. Its definitely a fascinating city. Id move back there but the crime is scary. You be careful.

[@tammanyfields3583]

I am proudly descended from John Rolfe and Pocahontas through Col Robert Bolling and the Banisters. My Grandmother as a child was a presenter of the Statue Of Pocahontas.

[@charityhawks9890]

I just discovered that I am descended from them through the Bolings, as well.

[@tammanyfields3583]

@@charityhawks9890 Hello Cousin!

[@marisafernandez3397]

Pocahontas' daddy, Chief Powhatan can be found in King William County VA. It's in a beautiful park-like setting with a huge boulder atop with an engraved marker. It's on the Powhatan Indian reservation land.

[@dancinrain8307]

I am related to Pocahontas as well. She is my 9th great grandmother. Relationship is through the Bowling/Bolling family and my Grandmother Lilly Jathina Bowlling/Bolling family.

[@tammanyfields3583]

We must be Cousins! I am directly descended as well.

[@soaring1]

Me too! There are many of us.

[@SuperChicken666]

Amazing stuff. I hope I can visit there this year and see that 'bath'. I've been to Verona, Italy, where I saw Juliet's balcony where she allegedly called to Romeo. Even though Pocahontas was a real person, I would be willing to bet Pocahontas's bath is just as authentic. But it's still fun.😊

[@sfdavis3526]

Most informative. Well done!

[@VATravels]

Thank you!

[@augustasimone9323]

Thank you for showing us around !

[@annmcgehee1728]

Hopefully they can continue to do renovations around that area! Unfortunately, the city can’t afford to help with the funding, much like Richmond, rather than preserving existing sites with character, quite often they are torn down and replaced with cookie cutter modern architecture…😢

[@VATravels]

Makes me sad. 😔 ..I better start documenting these places while I can.

[@annmcgehee1728]

@@VATravels That is so true, whole sections of Richmond ( Scott’s Addition, VCU- both Monroe Park and Medical campuses) completely razed or encroaching new construction hiding historic sites in their midst.

[@LivelifeLit]

Interesting. She is my Aunt about 10 or 11 lines bac.

[@VATravels]

Very cool!

[@Steve-Duh-Rino]

Cool history. Funky looking park though. Looks like someone’s borderline unkept back yard, haha

[@VATravels]

Someone definitely needs to take a lawnmower out there. lol

[@Steve-Duh-Rino]

@@VATravels Looked like someone’s large backyard that needed a landscape architect. Hilton Head spoils you since everything’s so immaculately landscaped. I’m a lan snob, haha

[@jamesalford189]

We love your videos. Can you tell us why Pocahontas they didn’t have horses? Thank you

[@VATravels]

Sure horses aren't native to North America. They were brought over by the Spanish and hadn't reached this area yet. Thanks for watching!

[@LivelifeLit]

@@VATravelsthere were horses in the Americas for almost a 100 full years by the time of Pocahontas. Btw, we had North American Camels and other things to ride. Camels were being rarely spotted up into the 1900s.

[@VATravels]

@@LivelifeLit Yeah Columbus brought them to the Caribbean on his second voyage in 1493. Then Cortez brought them to Continental America in 1519 (Mexico.) Coronado then brought them North into what is now Texas/New Mexico in the 1540s. They never reached the east coast. The English brought them with them in the 1600s to what is now Virginia after the time of Pocahontas.

[@LivelifeLit]

@@VATravels I’m inclined to believe that’s a lie told by the govt and/or elite to fit the narrative and to insert themselves into everything. Just like the camel, the horse was also native to North America during the same period they claim North American Camels went extinct… yet Camels made their way to Africa and beyond from North America so why wouldn’t the same be said for the horse? Which btw all sources say horses aren’t indigenous to North America yet when you research it deeper they said the North American horses went extinct 11,400 years ago. Somebody’s lying.

[@LivelifeLit]

@@VATravels American Indians, are all connected north and south, and it’s always been told and shown that Indians in the west had to show the spanish they met how to ride horses. Tribes like the Comanche and Lakota broke wild horses in the 1600s so why not the same thing from the wild horses of the 1500s?… I literally just saw a news article from ScienceNews saying and i quote 'Native Americans corralled Spanish horses decades before Europeans arrived DNA and skeletal clues rewrite the tale of how horses came to the Great Plains by the 1600s’