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POWHATAN COUNTY
Area 273 Square Miles
Formed in 1777 from Cumberland and Chesterfield and named for Powhatan, the noted Indian ruler. Many Huguenots settled in this county, 1699-1700. Here Robert E. Lee spent the summer of 1865.
Conservation & Development Commission, 1938. |