Pocosin

Pocosin lies near the Chowan River and its wooded wetlands. The Chowan forms where the Nottoway and Blackwater meet, then runs south to Albemarle Sound; the Meherrin joins it from the west. Chowanoke and Meherrin communities lived along these waterways. In 1585 Ralph Lane led a party from the English settlement on Roanoke Island up the Chowan and encountered its inhabitants.