Machicomoco State Park along the York River opened this spring. Officials hope it will shed light on the American Indians who have long called the area home.
A new state park in Virginia called Machicomoco has opened along the York River in Gloucester County. It is the first park in the state dedicated to honoring Native Americans and their history in the area. This story originally included the wrong year for when a conservation group purchased the land. Conservation Fund bought the land in 2017. The story has been corrected.
After decades of various owners and plans for the land, it was turned into Machicomoco State Park, a name that means “a special meeting place” in the Algonquin language. The park is the state’s 40th and the only one dedicated to Native Americans. Baker said the state park system worked with tribal leaders and elders, along with local historians, to develop and design the park and to tell the stories Native Americans wanted to tell from their history.Machicomoco, which opened this spring, includes 645 acres north of the Hampton Roads area, about three hours south of Washington. The land previously had several owners, and at one point in the mid-2000s a developer planned to build luxury homes on part of it.
The park’s creation comes at a time of racial reckoning across the country, and Adkins said there has been “an awakening that we have given short strife to our Native culture” in Virginia, a place he said is often considered in “the heart of Dixie.”
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