Mowhemencho

Mowhemencho was the easternmost Monacan town on the James River above the falls, beyond the country controlled by the Powhatan Confederacy. In November 1608 Christopher Newport led an English expedition upriver and visited Mowhemencho and Massinacak. The visitors seized a Monacan leader and compelled him to guide them. The town was still occupied when John Lederer and Major Harris visited in 1670. By the turn of the century, colonial encroachment had driven many Monacan away, and the Virginia government granted much of the former town site to French Huguenot refugees.