While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Accohanoc. A tribe of the
Powhatan confederacy that
formerly lived on the river of the same name, in Accomac and Northampton cos.,
Va. They had 40 warriors in 1608. Their principal village bore the name of the
tribe. They be came mixed with Negroes in later times, and the remnant was
driven off at the time of the Nat Turner insurrection, about 1833. (J. M.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
