page_title: Chimborazo Park
section_title: Powhatan Stone
hierarchical_section_title: Chimborazo Park / Powhatan Stone
caption_attribution_description: English: Powhatan Stone, erected by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in Chimborazo Park, Richmond, Virginia (from The Historical Marker Database (www.hmdb.org)).
context_page_description: Chimborazo Park is a park and historic land site in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Created in 1874, the park was the site of Chimborazo Hospital, one of the world's largest military hospitals.
context_section_description: On the south side of the park, overlooking the James River, is a stone commemorating King Powhatan and his relationship with Captain John Smith and the English settlement in Jamestown known as the "Powhatan Stone".  The stone was placed in the park in the 1950s by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
  The Mayo family, descendants of the city's original surveyor, William Mayo, had lived for generations at a house on the hill east of Richmond they called "Powhatan’s Seat".  The location was likely that of the local village of the Powhatan's own tribe.  The family carefully preserved at their house a talisman in the form of a stone said to have formed part of Powhatan's house which was sited in the native village at the falls in Richmond.  According to one source, the stone, covered with "Indian designs", also marked the grave of William Mayo.  The stone, formerly located along the river, was moved to its present location when it was displaced by the Fulton Gas Works around 1911.
  A bronze plaque on the stone reads as follows:
caption: Powhatan Stone
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